"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."
I've seen this quote without attribution a couple of times. Whoever said it, they're spot on.
@anthony @JulietEMcKenna
This is pretty much what I had always told my dad whenever he talked about buying gold because fiat money is worthless.
"If that were true, why would they trade their precious gold for your worthless money? Are they running a charity?"
It got through to him in the moment, but he still kept getting suckered because he wasn't buying their logic, he was buying the narrative they built up around owning gold.
That's all these con men ever do. If crypto was really about disrupting the global financial system, they would talk about how people are actually using it for commerce, not some "get rich quick" bullshit. If LLMs were so great, they would talk about the results, not some fantasy about AGI.
Juliet E McKenna
Anthony, of course
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