I don’t think that sufficiently explains it either. We all want a nice little bow on a simple, easy target. But there isn’t one.

Block, for example, said that they had experienced record profits… in spite of their, “hiring spree.”

This is just capitalism working as usual, only more of it, faster.

AI has a part in it. So does austerity policies and the rise of a certain political climate.

To lie requires recognition of the truth and an intention to deceive. LLM’s don’t have such abilities. They are systems that generate plausible sequences of symbols based on training inputs, alignments, reinforcement, and inference. These systems don’t know or care what truth is and therefore cannot lie.

It’s already bad. I’m not looking forward to the future. These systems are terrible. It’s a future without people that they want for some reason. I’d rather deal with people incompetent, tired, annoyed people than an LLM.