Mastodawn

Huh. I’m starting to see some publishing-adjacent folks who were all hot to jump on the “AI” slopwagon apparently having second thoughts.

Interesting.

(What’s the technical term for when the second-string or fellow-traveler grifters start leaping from the doomed ship?)

@lilithsaintcrow for the AI grifters? I think the term is “Check out my new quantum computing startup!”

@wordshaper Ooof. Yeah, you're right; by all indications, “quantum" is the new grift, and they're starting to ramp that up now.

@lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper The "quantum" grift failed to launch back around 2004, if memory serves, but it's been bubbling under ever since.

Given the current focus on LLMs I reckon the next bubble could well be quantum machine learning, which crosses the streams:

@cstross @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper Hear me out: Quantum Large Language Models on the Blockchain.