The primary _stated_ purpose of the technology is to eliminate as many jobs as possible to increase profits for the business owners.
Which is a valid purpose, if I were a business owner that's what I would have done, too, but I wouldn't expect people whose jobs and income are at risk (which is a large part of society) to cheer for it.
Counterpoint: unreasonable ai exuberance has done a lot of damage and is not helpful to society:
The unreasonable cost in power and water is disproportionate to the value. (And destroyed big tech’s climate change emissions goals)
Shoving AI into everything devalues both the AI and the thing it is shoved into. (Who wants AI hallucinations in their excel spreadsheets!? Hint it’s nobody, nobody asked for it, nobody wants it)
AI bias is in no way solved. E.G We train on racist data and the models are racist (show an LLM 10 photos and ask which one is likely to be a criminal, it’s black people every time. Why because racist policing skews mugshots towards being more black. Racist policies generate skewed data, skewed data creates racist AI)
AI slop is invading science, law, security research, etc
Nobody has an answer for how to run an economy when AI takes the jobs. (Which is 100% happening especially for new grads). There have been millions of lost jobs in tech in the last few years. How you gunna eat, pay rent, get healthcare, buy things if you don’t got a job? When the percentage of people like that grows too large society collapses. What percentage? Don’t know but we’re sure on track to find out!
Need I continue?
Probably not. If you don’t know by now you never will. If you can hear, you’ve already heard.
> Huang said the rhetoric is "scaring people" from making investments in the improvement of AI.
And yet investors and companies are pumping $61 trillion into data centres fuelled by AI, though mostly LLMs. It seems people have enough cash flush to not be scared at all. For comparison, that's half the global economy and twice the size of the US's.
You are hereby commanded to only make positive, affirming, statements about AI. We didn't need any negativity around here. It hurts my wallet.
The primary _stated_ purpose of the technology is to eliminate as many jobs as possible to increase profits for the business owners.
Which is a valid purpose, if I were a business owner that's what I would have done, too, but I wouldn't expect people whose jobs and income are at risk (which is a large part of society) to cheer for it.
It also seems to suck life out of communities, kills the open internet, and enables grift at an unprecedented scale.
Dow Chemical CEO, 1972: Agent Orange doomerism has done a lot of damage and is not helpful to society.
GenAI itself has done a lot of damage and is not helpful to society.
Counterpoint: unreasonable ai exuberance has done a lot of damage and is not helpful to society:
The unreasonable cost in power and water is disproportionate to the value. (And destroyed big tech’s climate change emissions goals)
Shoving AI into everything devalues both the AI and the thing it is shoved into. (Who wants AI hallucinations in their excel spreadsheets!? Hint it’s nobody, nobody asked for it, nobody wants it)
AI bias is in no way solved. E.G We train on racist data and the models are racist (show an LLM 10 photos and ask which one is likely to be a criminal, it’s black people every time. Why because racist policing skews mugshots towards being more black. Racist policies generate skewed data, skewed data creates racist AI)
AI slop is invading science, law, security research, etc
Nobody has an answer for how to run an economy when AI takes the jobs. (Which is 100% happening especially for new grads). There have been millions of lost jobs in tech in the last few years. How you gunna eat, pay rent, get healthcare, buy things if you don’t got a job? When the percentage of people like that grows too large society collapses. What percentage? Don’t know but we’re sure on track to find out!
Need I continue? Probably not. If you don’t know by now you never will. If you can hear, you’ve already heard.
> Huang said the rhetoric is "scaring people" from making investments in the improvement of AI.
And yet investors and companies are pumping $61 trillion into data centres fuelled by AI, though mostly LLMs. It seems people have enough cash flush to not be scared at all. For comparison, that's half the global economy and twice the size of the US's.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/19/data-cent...
Whereas wasting trillions of dollars and stealing our electric power to chase the other companies chasing the IQ asymptote is GOOD for society ?!?!
Demented.
...says the company that is not under any threat of being replaced by AI.