“There’s no way to put the genie back into the bottle,” insist AI boosters about a product that the industry is spending more than a trillion dollars a year to keep out of the bottle.
@maxleibman One of my favourite things about Mastodon at the moment is the sarcastic posts about AI.
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Funnel anyone?
Or a handy foul sewer if it really can't go back.
@maxleibman Mark me up as heretic, but Tech leadership today is a political position.

@maxleibman ya, if VC money dried up, all the AI companies would close and Google, with Gemeni, would be the last one standing. But they would also just stop running Gemeni at a loss.

The open source AI models people are running at home would be all there is left very quickly.

@maxleibman Yeah, for sure they couldn't put Sora inside the bottle 🤷‍♂️
@maxleibman "There's no way to put the genie back into the bottle." Meanwhile, the bottle:
@maxleibman And now let's go to the Tech Bro Press Conference to see what The Future will be like! Look at these amazing Use Cases!!
@maxleibman And here's the latest from Ed Zitron on the AI Datacentre Economy and...oh, oh dear...

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This GIF makes me turgid.

It goes well with a T-shirt I wear as oft as possible when going to a restaurant with my long-suffering wife. It's ketchup red, & in the rough shape of the Heinz label, it says "I Put Ketchup On My Ketchup".

She calls me "Condiment Boy".

@maxleibman The bottle is about to break.
@maxleibman @drahardja weird how sora went back in the bottle
@maxleibman I really want them to run out of money but they are literally commiting fraud to keep their stupid fucking companies going
@yugthebug wouldn't it be nice, if that stupidity would downsize those blown up egos and teach their companies a little more attention to real important things ? @maxleibman
@maxleibman If this particular genie cannot be re-bottled it must be destroyed.
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I was saying something like that recently. Someone pointed at the Gartner Hype Cycle and I pointed out there's a lot of vested interests with a lot of money that are pulling on the crest to keep it high even though we know it's going to collapse like every other hyped tech.