[Aurornis]

This is a lot of words mixed with ragebait to try to argue that AI is a fad that will go away.

EDIT: This substack is non-stop grievances about AI posted multiple times per week. There's an audience of people who want to be as angry as possible about AI and this Substack is here to sell you subscriptions to that with gems like this designed to make you bristle with anger at the enemy

> They are trained on racism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, nationalism, anti-Semitism

> The technology industry sells a story of inevitability. It is, in no small part, a profoundly anti-democratic story, one that dismisses if not denies any attempt at agency, let alone resistance. "There's nothing you can do," investors and CEOs and pundits parrot. "Resistance is futile," they smirk (yet another example of their incredible inability to understand the science fiction they like to reference).

[the_cat_kittles]

i dont think its crazy to expect a big contraction in AI hype and funding. I dont understand how they will all be profitable when you can run a model on your own computer for free that will do 98% of what you need.

[dryarzeg]

I agree with you on most parts, but first, not everyone can actually run a model on your own computer that will do 98% of what you need - for most people it's rather around 40% of what you need, depending on the exact model and method of usage; and second, there's still these 2% remaining. And don't forget that not everyone (I mean, not every casual user) can do local inference just due to the lack of technical skills.

And by the way, who will produce this "model that you can run on your own computer"? Although, to be honest, right now in most cases that's not Meta or OpenAI anyway, even though they have some (outdated) open-weight models.

[wiseowise]

> I dont understand how they will all be profitable when you can run a model on your own computer for free that will do 98% of what you need.

For the same reason how movie companies are reaping record profits from streaming services - convenience and fearmongering.

"You wouldn't download an AI, would you?!" or "Think of children and elderly!" or satanism, or billions of other tricks they already employ to keep you docile.

Also, majority of people do not have hardware to run models that compete with LLM vendors, at this point I'm pretty sure majority of people don't even own a PC anymore.

[dryarzeg]

> satanism

I haven't seen this one in the wild (while seeing others) LOL. How does this even work? I mean, like... "if you download the film/LLM you will summon a demon"? I honestly can't understand : )

[wiseowise]

Church.

[Mordisquitos]

I don't see the author implying that AI is a fad that will go away. I see her stating that "AI", as envisioned and sold by many tech oligarchs to their audiences, is not the inevitable future.