AkaSci 🛰️May 27

Check out this insightful article by Ed Zitron about "how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI."

- AI is a perfect storm of failed concepts and organizations, and the apex of the Era of the Business Idiot.
- LLMs Are Built To Coddle Losers
- The AI Industry Is A Grifting Machine
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
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Revenge of The Business Idiot

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Ed Zitron:

"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
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Revenge of The Business Idiot

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More from Ed Zitron:

"While I’m not saying every LLM user is an imbecile, they’re built to convince the mediocre and incurious that they’re remarkable.

I also want to be clear that while there are sane and normal people who use these things, they’re mostly drowned out by a crowd of people that oscillate between bootlicking and regurgitating capitalist mythology in a way that makes it hard to trust anybody who spends significant amounts of time using an LLM."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
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Revenge of The Business Idiot

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More from Ed Zitron:

"The aggression with which AI boosters and execs act toward those who aren’t impressed suggests a genuine intellectual and moral weakness. Nobody who’s this insistent, aggressive and violative with their language of “it’s here and if you don’t adopt it you’re stupid and dead” has ever been right about anything. Nobody this desperate, insistent and forceful has ever had good intentions, good vibes or brought good omens — they are always bearers of some kind of con."

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We don't have to agree with everything in Ed Zitron's insightful essay but it is definitely thought-provoking and it challenges conventional thinking on AI.

"I see LLMs as a violation of everything that great computing stands for.

It is inefficient, power-intensive, environmentally destructive, and inherently sold based on things that it might do, providing far more value to scam artists and con men than it does to its end users."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
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"Edward Benjamin Zitron (born 1986) is an English author, podcaster, and public relations specialist.

He is a critic of the technology industry, particularly of artificial intelligence companies and the generative artificial intelligence boom of the 2020s. He hosts the Better Offline podcast, and writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter.

Ed lives and works out of Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as NYC."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/about/
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
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Ed Zitron - Wikipedia

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