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Max Leibman“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.
Mike Torr
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Toni Aittoniemi@maxleibman Mark me up as heretic, but Tech leadership today is a political position.
zed@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.
doragasu@maxleibman Yeah, for sure they couldn't put Sora inside the bottle 🤷♂️
Space Hobo@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...
Lord Kelvin@spacehobo @maxleibman
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.
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elle mundy@maxleibman @drahardja weird how sora went back in the bottle
Edward@maxleibman I really want them to run out of money but they are literally commiting fraud to keep their stupid fucking companies going
Nivex 🐧 📻@maxleibman If this particular genie cannot be re-bottled it must be destroyed.
Matt Boehm@maxleibman
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.
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.
Michael Downey 
@maxleibman We can't put it back in the bottle, but we can flush it down the toilet.
Tim Richards@maxleibman @troberts Jeez I think I can cope without the help of a fancy version of Clippy and super spam machine
Tock@maxleibman Similar cries of "the technology industry is over, this is now the AI industry. If you're not leading the charge, you're slowing us down."
Any wonder why I want to leave IT?
Paul_IPv6of course there is. don't they realize that the bottle it came in totally sucks? :)
Dogiedog64"The genie actually just LOVES being out of the bottle, they're just a bit shy." They insist, as the genie screams and writes in agony, desperately clawing at the people holding them down and trying to get back in the bottle.
Feral 3D@maxleibman lol. Accurate AND funny.
Colin@maxleibman Aren't there many stories involving genies that are lessons about how ambiguous commands in human language have terrible consequences? But I'm sure that's not relevant here.
Ian MalcolmYep, exactly. It's quite clear the "can't put the genie back in the bottle" people have not read any of the many (vast majority) of old stories about genies, wherein their initial benefit turns out to be a disaster, and after some struggle they are indeed put back in the bottle. 🤷♂️
larklatroy@maxleibman It doesn't need to go back into the bottle. We just need to let it die the slow, painful, flaming death it is already starting on.
burly@maxleibman Not realizing that if the models were as good as the hype says, they wouldn't be releasing them!
You don't sell something that powerful, you use it to your own ends. Why would Google sell its models to Apple when they could use their models to simply replace Apple, no?
If the models were so powerful, companies wouldn't lay people off any more than a general would release a bunch of soldiers who could turn around and use their fancy super weapon on him, they'd task their developers on replacing their competitors and other businesses before their competitors did the same to them.
I've been asking similar at work, why do we need to worry about package management in node when the AI can just write the same code? if it's as good as management is claiming, surely it would be able to handle that, no?
if it's so good (which everyone at work is using that didn't a developer), why does copilot say for entertainment use only?
And lastly, how do we own any of this shit we are vibe coding after the recent scotus developments regarding copyright?
It's insanity.
You don't sell something that powerful, you use it to your own ends. Why would Google sell its models to Apple when they could use their models to simply replace Apple, no?
If the models were so powerful, companies wouldn't lay people off any more than a general would release a bunch of soldiers who could turn around and use their fancy super weapon on him, they'd task their developers on replacing their competitors and other businesses before their competitors did the same to them.
I've been asking similar at work, why do we need to worry about package management in node when the AI can just write the same code? if it's as good as management is claiming, surely it would be able to handle that, no?
if it's so good (which everyone at work is using that didn't a developer), why does copilot say for entertainment use only?
And lastly, how do we own any of this shit we are vibe coding after the recent scotus developments regarding copyright?
It's insanity.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesI am assuming your questions are rhetorical and you know all the answers?
BenderIsGreat34@maxleibman If investors weren’t the most gullible and greedy pieces of shit on the planet we wouldn’t be in this mess.