I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:

• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.

• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.

• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.

@nileane @jpmens agree but would add that in a rush to profits Crypto obscured that you can have open ledgers without burning the world, and Generative AI obscures the many positive things AI technology brings to life. The very essence of enshittification.