OpenAI Files To Go Public

https://youtube.com/shorts/lWoFibOXXtU?si=sSkbb9r1emNL9UNL

#ai_bullshit #aibubble #aiGRIFT

We are going to lose the best and brightest minds in information technology if the bubble doesn't burst soon. You know which one I'm talking about.

It's been almost six months since I posted my version of, "if it doesn't burst in six months, I am going to leave to start a farm."

But I don't think I am actually going to do that. It was a pose, a posture. I am going to ride it out and hope it crashes soon, even if I am increasingly losing hope that it will.

I just saw a really depressing thread from a very awesome person looking for jobs in tech that don't require generative "AI" and nearly everyone was indicating that doesn't exist anymore.

Myself and others have written about this, but I think there is a place for someone with the guts to come along and create an explicitly anti-AI consulting firm, or a boutique artisanal hand-crafted coding company - no slop allowed. Someone will have the chutzpah to say, "I don't like 'AI' and this company will never use it." I think there are people who would check in for that vision big time. Lining up to work there, and do business with such a forward-thinking company.

At any rate, it's Friday, I'm not in love, and I am feeling very, very tired. Hope you have a nice weekend, internet friend. Cheers!

#AI #AIgrift #NoAI

I just saw on the corporate hellsite (LinkedIN) that GrrCon is now an "information security and AI conference." Because of course that is where I would read such an announcement.

What a massive disappointment! Every year I watch, "Everything old is new again" from that conference in 2012 by the late Mike "Clappymonkey" Kemp. It becomes more relevant with each viewing, which I used to find calming, and now find depressing.

In the beginning, Mike is shittalking the event separating VIPs and "regular people" - I can only imagine how furious he might be to learn the whole conference is getting in on the "AI" grift. I suspect he'd also find the same XSS vulnerabilities in the same places almost 15 years later, but that's a different rant.

This "AI" grift already started happening to conferences here in California too, which I am sure is no great surprise. Because, again, of course it has.

I think there would be value in getting back to real hacker cons, run by people who actually like this stuff. I think the closest I ever got to a "real" con was SparkleCON at the 23b hacker space indy park in Orange County. They let me give a talk on the intersection of anarchism and hacker history, and it was a blast! I saw very cool makers and people that are doing fantastic work walkin' around, hung out with real smart hackers, and even played some tabletop RPG.

To the larger point, maybe it was a mistake to let corporations feel like they are "hackers too" because they occasionally test pens. Or run hacker tools and pop shells. Perhaps it was a mistake to invite them into places like DefCON?

I suspect the conversation about DC is a little different and more nuanced, it also kinda feels like they are the bellwether, and all the other cons are just following. My spidey sense is telling me that there might be gold in these hills, and perhaps many issues stem from the way DC went from a hacker con to one cheering on the Army and other feds. But, again, ranting about DC isn't the point of this post.

Look, I don't know what the right answer is, but I have a pretty good idea of what the wrong answer is, and what GrrCON did is the wrong answer.

Anyway, I am going to go back to yelling at clouds now.

#NoAI #AIgrift #GrrCON #HackerCons

There are maybe two or three people over on the evil hellsite (which I know, you are thinking I am talking about the birb site, but this time I am referring to the most evil social network of all, LinkedIN) that I respect.

Both of them have the guts to call out "AI" for the grift it is. Conversely, it's a place where I've lost respect for countless people that I used to hold in high esteem.

I cannot fucking wait for the bubble to burst. I am so sick of the "AI" grift. Let's go on to the next one, please!

#NoAI #Grifting #AIgrift #LinkedIN

I am reading a book on the confidence game (aka the thing run by con men, women, and enbies).

I can't help thinking about the parallels between the classic confidence scams and the hard push for "AI."

Someone pointed out that it's just like the crypto grift from a few years ago. It's a swindle and they are hoping you just won't notice. Trying to dazzle you with bullshit, to distract from the fact that the tool never works quite right, and tries to blame you for not prompting correctly.

#NoAI #AIgrift