The capitalist AI future is bullshit by design — AKA ‘mansplaining as a service’.
“Right this moment’s highly-hyped generative AI programs (most famously OpenAI) are designed to generate bullshit by design. To be clear, bullshit can generally be helpful, and even unintentionally right, however that doesn’t hold it from being bullshit. Worse, these programs usually are not meant to generate constant bullshit — you will get totally different bullshit solutions from the identical prompts.” —Anil Sprint 2023
What are the advantages of AI adoption in organizations? Not good for a lot of employees it appears.
“The rise of AI expertise may lower hiring within the subsequent 5 years, in response to a current survey by recruiting company Adecco.
Greater than 40% of senior executives at over 2,000 firms interviewed by Adecco acknowledged that they anticipated their workforces to shrink quickly due to AI.
Adecco’s analysis included firms from industries like prescription drugs, logistics and defence” —Verdict (UK) 2024
Is generative AI truly degenerative?
“Gen AI is degenerative as a result of it doesn’t serve our communities; slightly, it feeds on us, on our content material, our information, our rights and our privateness. It’s extractive and divisive, it avoids accountability for our losses, and it doesn’t care in any respect concerning the prosperity of our dwelling programs.
Gen AI is degenerative. Or a minimum of, the enterprise fashions of the businesses are degenerative. So the query turns into: can AI be regenerative?” —Matthew Moran 2024
Historical past repeats, or a minimum of it rhymes.
“Firms like OpenAI, Google, and Meta extracting information and creating AI fashions with out consent shares many parallels with Imperialism and the methods during which land was taken from indigenous peoples. Even the conceitedness required to insist Large Tech know what’s greatest for society is shared by Imperialist nations … The tempo of AI analysis is depressingly quick. Miserable as a result of presently the Extremely Rich are those pioneering the analysis, in some instances backed by the Efficient Altruism motion. It’s as if our solely technique is to take a seat patiently and wait to have one other mannequin shared with us from Large Tech after which spend total conferences and analysis careers probing and prodding fashions educated by our Tech Lords.” —Papa Reo 2023
Have we reached peak AI?
“I consider that synthetic intelligence has three quarters to show itself earlier than the apocalypse comes, and when it does, will probably be that a lot worse, savaging the revenues of the largest firms in tech. As soon as utilization drops, so will the outstanding quantities of income which have flowed into massive tech, and so will acres of information facilities sit unused, the cloud equal of the huge overhiring we noticed in post-lockdown Silicon Valley.
I worry that the consequence could possibly be a far worse yr for the tech business than we noticed in 2023, one the place the vast majority of the ache hits employees slightly than the ghouls who inflated this perilous bubble.” —Ed Zitron 2024
This publish is a follow-up from January 2024 the place I summarized the nice, the dangerous, and the ugly of automation & algorithms through the previous yr.
