Mastodawn

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs

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xs4me2 20h ago

@pluralistic

This technology needs rules and regulation before being set loose on the public.

But big tech is only seeing the $$$

What could possibly go wrong.

LLM can be useful but only in the right hands with the right skills, and is exactly skills we will lose is this is used in the present scheme of things.

The WWW has democratized access to information (but also shows the same tabulation as it is also an accelerator for nonsense).

LLM now will take that away, not what we need!

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Artstories

@xs4me2 @pluralistic There is a reason why all the Tech bros went absolutely bonkers after Trump was elected - they knew perfectly well that he and his gouvernment won't regulate anything if they lick his boots nice enough.