Not a sneer, but an interesting article from WaPo (archive link) about the rise/return of "dumb tech", and its link to the backlash against smart tech
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AFAICT basically all of them failed at the "become too important to be busted for mass copyright infringement" part - turns out actively stealing from some of the most litigious and DMCA-happy motherfuckers on the planet was an easy way to get mired in lawsuits.
Bonus points for becoming essentially a money pinata for their lawyers in the process.
The day before this news came out, Ed Zitron posted a detailed list of signs of an AI bubble collapse — “Discord within OpenAI or Anthropic” is on his list of “pale horses.” If we start hearing about “dust-ups” at OpenAI, “you know bigger things are afoot.” [Where’s Your Ed At]
As a quick aside, Zitron's also cooking up an article on the fallout of Google's antitrust case as we speak.
These things are scraping absolutely fucking anything that might get them closer to Superintelligence^tm^, I fully believe the comments are getting scraped as well.
(it is a fucking hilarious tweet tho)
Anything that takes the edge off a possible Great Recession sequel's fine in my book
It'd be the sole silver lining of this entire two-year bubble.
https://nitter.poast.org/edzitron/status/1819591404873568715
Zitron's sample size may be limited to his Twitter following, but its a bad sign for AI if bashing it gets you praise from both sides of the political aisle:
Bonus Tweet from Chris Alvino:
I was just thinking about this today. I had a thread go viral where I bashed AI, resulted in thousands of new followers, and I've had to block a bunch bc they turned out to be on the far right. Honestly amazing how bipartisan AI hate is. Never seen anything like it before 😂
Google Pulls “Dear Sydney” Olympics Ad After Backlash To Its Portrait Of A Young Girl Using AI
The ad itself is just fucked - its like something you'd find in a shitty cyberpunk novel.
Granted, whoever tries to put these into production is probably gonna give it a belt-fed or some shit like that. A gunbot isn't much of a gunbot unless you've got at least a couple hundred rounds ready to go.