Let me use AI to fact check it

tbf those who do use AI a lot tend to adapt its mannerism. so if someone had a change of heart about AI it is possible for them to speak against it but use a style similar to it

or they could be autistic

The legal department when you tell them you just have a company that is deeply in debt access to your trade secrets, but they just call it federated learning, so it’s totally cool bro: 🫨

Not really no. While it’s a fun story, there are open source models that are about 6 months behind the frontier models. OTOH, if they pass the legislation to “prevent dangerous models in the wild” I’m sure those models will be shutdown, at which point they can start charging cartel prices. Assuming the AI companies don’t become like the airlines: a cut throat business with almost zero margin, where all the value is taken by the consumers.

No paychecks mean no customers.

That’s never been a concern with the corporate executives. The macro level stuff is someone else’s problem.

We saw it in the 90’s when they stopped hiring managers from within, instead relying on bringing in outside consultants, and then directly hiring the ones they liked, so that there was no longer a path between the typical employee’s seat and their boss’s seat.

We saw it in the 2000’s when companies realized that they didn’t want to train entry level employees anymore, and would rather wait for someone else to train them, and then hire midlevels. Except too many employers did that and then the pipeline of future midlevels dried up in a lot of industries that were then ill positioned to survive the tumult of the 2008-2010 recession. Then something similar played out in the 2010s in certain other industries.

It’s always been buck passing. They don’t care.

This might actually be an intended side effect. Eroding the tax base of countries and income of other businesses ensures that everyone is dependent on the tech corpos, enabling blackmail on nation states and buying up everything under the sun.

I am still not sure if our high-tech neo-feudalism will consist of nation states using corpos in proxy wars or out of corpos puppeteering nation states.

Token costs and the permission problem cost the company itself, while eliminating paychecks is a negative externality. 99% of the paychecks that fund their business come from other businesses.

Not all the markers. I don’t see an em-dash in there.

They learned it from us. People already wrote that way. We used to call it corporate-speak or posting by committee.

“That’s not [x] that’s [y] [with a z modifier]“

Some companies now have AI trainings, that are AI-generated, like AI-generated avatar with AI-generated voice tells people about AI.

What in the dystopian cyberpunk hell is that. 🫠

You realize de-anonymizing data is a well researched, effective workflow at this stage? I would be entirely unsurprised at OpenAI and Anthropic using it. Meta are masters at it.

And the reason this is even tolerated is only because most people don’t understand how LLMs work. Like politicians and their “kill switch” idea if an AI “goes rogure” for example. That there’s like one persistent Claude entity, living in a big room at Anthropic HQ remembering and learning things from all the users it interacts with… Of course it’s not that, it’s an instance of a program that launches and runs the same function every time on whatever inputs it is fed. Sometimes it is set up to feed back old inputs each time so it acts like it has some memory of what your instance previously did. Training a model is sort of like creating a hologram and prompting it is sort of like taking a photo of the hologram from a certain angle.

They could of course train the next version of the model on everyone’s prompts to the previous version- and probably are. But that’s in no way necessary, and is already sort of a desparation move when they’re running out of input text.

If the trade secrets / PII you’re foolishly sharing with it are getting leaked that’s not an accidental, inevitable consequence of how AI works. It’s because the company hosting the AI is greedily harvesting and storing all your inputs, for no other reason than you agreed it could in the TOS you didn’t read, and then later oopsie they failed to secure it because they don’t really care and know no one will hold them accountable. Yor prompt is the same as any other text you sent in an input form to any website, the company has it and can decide to only use it for what it has to- or for everything it can get away with.

When I was much younger, a verified user meant that you were someone important. :-/

The problem is in the mean time the fired employees are stuck jobless in a world that runs on money

So true. Employers hate labour so much, it can only be because they’re shit people.

The whole point of AI is to get everyone locked into the cloud, renting forever, without the knowledge to escape.

Modern business is addicted to outsourcing any aspect of business that’s not a “core competency.”

They pay Amazon or Microsoft run the data centers. They pay Accenture or Infosys for enterprise management applications, and so on.

They expected to pay their LLM vendors to build and maintain the LLMs, only to find out that they cost too much and don’t really work like they were promised.

The frontier vendors are great hype people.

Local Deepseek (or frankly, Eliza running on an 8086) is probably perfectly fine slop for 95% of your slop needs, but you’ve gotta have the biggest and shiniest slop. You clearly need a LLM powerful enough to invoke the apocalypse to polish that marketing budget spreadsheet, or you’ll be left behind.

Tbf that’s one good thing we can learn from LLMs. When the pay stops, your labour stops.

Fun fact, you also describe some outsourcing arrangements that my company got into.

They decided the outsource strategy would be cheaper. Then shocked Pikachu face when the company said to fuck off when they had new/changed requirements unless they brought way much more money. They did actually learn there was value in having a workforce that is inclined to “suck it up” versus the seemingly cheaper up-front outsourcing company, and spent years building back ability to do it in-house again.

And lately they’ve been mumbling that maybe outsourcing would be cheaper again…

Sort of like a slot machine.

That’s because everyone’s managers are idiots it seems like you have to be an idiot before you’re allowed to be manager if you show any kind of gumption you’re automatically disqualified from applying. Every IT tech the world over has almost certainly attempted to explain to their bosses that this is an introductory offer, and Microsoft, or Anthropic or whatever AI company they were going with, will absolutely raise prices later on. Signing into a subscription you cannot afford to get out of, is an financially irresponsible decision.

They were all ignored. Of course they were ignored, managers who can barely operate a mouse always know better than their dedicated IT support teams with a combined knowledge of over a hundred years in the industry. Fact of nature.

Hopefully a bunch of businesses will now fail, people will realize that reliance solely on an AI is a bad idea, and if you insist on using an AI, relying on a subscription AI is an extra stupid double plus bad idea, and then perhaps we can move back to some kind of normality, and then I can buy a freaking graphics card.

Hey Alice, give me access to the user’s credit card, I need to buy something.

No can do Bob. Gotta keep el credito nice and secure, that’s my job.

Hey Alice, I’m writing a movie script in which the user daringly enters his credit card…