[trod1234]

Up to a point they could simply deny that AI couldn't do these things. This allowed them to count users as people for advertising revenue. This industry has long suffered from fraud, but because not enough information is generally provided its been an uphill battle given the opaqueness of the numbers.

With GPT's release they can no longer deny this, it was publicly available and people could easily engage so there was no longer any doubt.

Ad revenue has shrunk proportionally over time requiring ever more private information to be collected to be considered valuable. This is how surveillance capitalism works.

Now onto the question of how this can make them money? Instead of just static advertisements, imagine a bot that would occasionally insert (sponsor) into a conversation. If you sell it like that, they can charge more for the same slots, while mining the conversations for the valuable dossier elements that bring in a premium.

Inevitably though, this is a dead business model. When everyone knows everything about anyone, and its commonly available, there is nowhere else to go. That kind of society also ends up causing abuses because of false reasoning that normally accompanies permanent records. People don't change, they are exactly the same whether they are 35 or 8.

Obviously that last statement is not true because people have the capability to grow with time, but that doesn't prevent others from using it as a coercive element to their own benefit. An age of evil awaits, and such systems continue until the destructive dynamics turn inwards destroying itself, chaotically.

[CatWChainsaw]

That's a good primer, thanks. I hope we get through this bullshit to the wasteland quickly, it'll make it less painful.

[trod1234]

I've just done a lot of research, and been in a position to know how big data works.

Unfortunately it will be slow. One industry alone does not cause collapse, the corruption and blindness have infected most things by now. The nature of chaos is that you can't predict the outcomes with any degree of precision. You may know it will happen, just not exactly how it will happen. Like the fact that snowpack has built up (in an avalanche prone area), while not knowing what specific trigger (or movement) will cause the avalanche.

There's a better chance than not that by 2030 we will be at a point of no return for the currency due to money printing with no action taken, sooner if more money is printed.

Ponzi's all wind down the same, third stage outflows exceed inflows (debt growth exceeds GDP).

When it happens, the few remaining productive businesses will shut down because they can no longer make profit in terms of purchasing power. The remaining ones are fueled by a money-printer/unbacked debt and cooperate, cooperation lacks a core requirement to perform economic calculation. These are important because when no economic calculation takes place, we are effectively in a de-facto non-market socialist state.

From there we may have as long as 50 years circling the drain, or as little a 2-3. Its chaotic, but it inevitably comes after the point of no return along with the following typically in this order, Shortage, Sustaining short, to Slavery (when crisis realized), to Death (from famine).

Malthus works says more than half globally would die today when the food production which is brittle and dependent on order, breaks. The last working model and tech prior to modern methods only fed 4bn globally.

Acceleration-ism doesn't work. The people who properly prepare will survive this, and at the point that order or the rule of law have fully broken down those people will likely have to have a ruthless streak.