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I sure do enjoy #EdZitron's podcast #BetterOffline. #AI's going to be a huge crash, but at least there's other people who can see the reality that the hype is desperately trying to paper over.
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Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I run you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its bluster, the AI industry’s grift is failing. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000769758292 Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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salix sericea (@Ripple13216)Ed Zitron and guests discuss the finer and the grosser points of the high school level manifesto of Alex Karp.
And how Herr K built "Hitler Salesforce".
"Better Offline", "Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC"
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Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
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I have seen many articles talk about this alleged 'massive demand for compute' but never anything behind it.
Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie | Better Offline
David@Zitron of the #BetterOffline podcast joins Isaac Pound of #TheTechReport YouTube channel, where they discuss the financial reality of the #genAI super-scalers and their partners in circular finance and wishful speculation.
There does not appear to be any possibility of the GPT-based #AI industry (such as #LLM services) to ever not run at a net financial loss while retaining enough customers to cover their sunk costs. If the CEOs aren't aware of this and wilfully conducting a fraud orders of magnitude larger than #SamBankmanFried, then they must be wilfully ignorant true believers in their own respective cults.
The hosts don't say this, but: the only way out of the global financial craters these companies form when they explode will be to tax the oligarchs down to zero and liquidate all the companies' and executives' and major investors' assets.
AI bubble: How OpenAI’s missed targets threaten AI’s circular financing | Ed Zitron
ArtemisAlthough, there are also problems of:
a) Most services won't just open your API to you (something that #EdZitron points out in #BetterOffline as a barrier for LLM agents too)
b) Even if you reverse-engineer an API, you'll probably need to do a gajillion things just to do something simple, because frontends and APIs are bloated to hell nowadays.
a) Most services won't just open your API to you (something that #EdZitron points out in #BetterOffline as a barrier for LLM agents too)
b) Even if you reverse-engineer an API, you'll probably need to do a gajillion things just to do something simple, because frontends and APIs are bloated to hell nowadays.