BlueMonday1984
My hands are requesting the CEO's home address (in ~~Minecraft~~ real life):
Quick bonus I found in the replies:
And a quick sidenote from me:
This is sorta repeating a previous prediction of mine, but I expect this AI bubble's gonna utterly tank the public image of tech as a whole. When you develop a tech whose primary use case boils down to "make the world worse so the line can go up", its gonna be virtually impossible for the public to forgive you.
Being more specific, I expect artists/musicians/creatives in general to be utterly hostile to AI, if not tech as a whole - AI has made their lives significantly harder in a variety of ways, and all signs pointing to the tech industry having done so willingly.
🎶Say, Yud, I hear you like em' young
🎶You better not ever go to Cell Block One
Marketing to ~~pre-teen~~ gamers must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Don't even need to do much - Stellar Blade threw some fanservice their way and laughed all the way to the bank. Gamers are stupid.
New post from Brian Merchant: No thanks to generative AI, which is about AI-run publisher Spines and their attempt to enshittify the literature world. Pulling a paragraph near the end here:
For another, the needle can move here; if the noise is loud enough, AI publishing can get slapped with a stigma that can at least help slow the erosion of the industry. Public shame can be a powerful tool, when warranted! So yeah: This is why I’m thankful that we’re building this community, and that there are people out there willing to go to the mat to oppose things like the AI-enabled automation of book production. (I fully resent that ‘AI enabled automation of book production’ is a phrase I had to write in 2024.)
Giving my thoughts, I feel Merchant and co. have a headstart when it comes to moving the needle here, for two main reasons:
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AI has been thoroughly stripped of whatever "wow factor" - showing off that your gen-AI system can make books isn't gonna impress Joe Public the way it would've back in '22 or '23.
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The one-two punch of the slop-nami and the plagiarism lawsuits have indelibly associated "AI" as a concept with "zero effort garbage made of stolen shit" - as a consequence, using or supporting it will immediately disgust a good portion of the crowd right out of the gate
It probably is total bullshit
On the one hand, that spectacular failure could potentially dissuade the military from buying in and prolonging this bubble. On the other hand, having an accountability sink for war crimes would be a tempting offer to your average army.
Remember, kids: Live your life in a way that ensures people don't lionize your murderer