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Unresolved claims by Ed Zitron (953)

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  1. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “If businesses don't adopt AI at scale — not experimentally, but at the core of their operations — the revenue is simply not there to sustain the hype, and once the market turns, it will turn hard, demanding efficiency and cutbacks that will lead to tens of thousands of job cuts.”

  2. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Generative video models like OpenAI's Sora are dead on arrival, requiring massive amounts of compute and significantly more training data — which is itself both complex and scarce, and carries with it massive legal implications.”

  3. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Paying publishers to license their content doesn't actually fix the problem, because it doesn't increase the amount of content that they create, but rather helps line the pockets of executives and shareholders.”

  4. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “In the event that adoption slows — or, more accurately, demand never arrives — Microsoft, Amazon and Google only have so long before the markets sour on their "it's the future, we swear!" messaging, demanding real revenue to match their multi-billion dollar infrastructural bets.”

  5. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “You simply cannot fix them. Hallucinations are not going away.”

  6. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “I can find no companies that have integrated generative AI in a way that has truly improved their bottom line other than Klarna,”

  7. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “As we speak, there are few if any meaningful improvements to our lives as a result of the last year's artificial intelligence boom.”

  8. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “If the AI bubble pops, the entire tech industry will suffer as venture capitalists are once again washed out through chasing an unprofitable, barely-substantiated trend.”

  9. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “In reality, a Habsburg AI will be one that is increasingly more generic and empty, normalized into a slop of anodyne business-speak as its models are trained on increasingly-identical content.”

  10. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “And because these platforms were built to reward scale and volume far more often than quality, AI naturally rewards those who can find the spammiest ways to manipulate the algorithm.”

  11. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “This is why so many models' responses sound so similar — they're heavily dependent on the stuff they're fed for their outputs, and so much of their "intelligence" comes from the same training data.”

  12. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Like a plant turning to capture sunlight, parts of the internet have already twisted toward the satisfaction of algorithms, and as others become dependent on generative AI (like Quora, which now promotes ChatGPT-generated answers at the top of results), so will the web become more dependent and dictated by automated systems.”

  13. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The ultimate problem is that this morass of uselessness will lead companies like Google to force their generative AIs to "fix" the problem by generating answers to sift through the crap.”

  14. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The numerous lawsuits against OpenAI could break the back of the company, and while Altman and other AI fantasists may pretend that these models are an intractable path to the future of society, any force that controls (or makes them pay for) the data that they use will kneecap the company and force them to come up with a way to make these models ethically.”

  15. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “As more internet content is created, either partially or entirely through generative AI, the models themselves will find themselves increasingly inbred, training themselves on content written by their own models which are, on some level, permanently locked in 2023, before the advent of a tool that is specifically intended to replace content created by human beings.”

  16. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude are dependent on a constant flow of training data to improve their models, to the point that it's effectively impossible for them to operate without violating copyright.”

  17. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “When I tried to replicate this in the real world, Copilot made four images with completely incomprehensible text, only one of which said "Mike's."”

  18. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “I believe that once reality catches up with artificial intelligence's marketing, there will be a dramatic knock-on effect that savages the entire tech industry.”

  19. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Big tech has turned the startup ecosystem into a giant goldmine, one that guarantees that almost every dollar spent on any AI product is eventually shared with one of a few multi-trillion dollar tech firms.”

  20. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “As a result, every interaction with ChatGPT or Claude is, on some level, guaranteed revenue for one of the big tech firms.”

  21. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Public companies are pumping their valuations and executive salaries off the back of artificial intelligence hype, yet nobody is saying the blatantly obvious — that this industry is deeply unprofitable and yet to prove its worth.”

  22. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “As the use of artificial intelligence grows, so do these revenue streams, forcing almost every single dollar spent on AI into the hands of a few trillion-dollar tech firms.”

  23. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Despite the frothy tales and visions of how generative artificial intelligence will automate our entire existence, there's a distinct lack of practical outputs that suggest that it is even capable of doing so.”

  24. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The assumption is that audiences are stupid, and ignorant, and "just won't care," and I firmly disagree — I think regular people will find this stuff deeply offensive.”

  25. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “As it stands, OpenAI and Anthropic are heavily dependent on companies believing that they have to integrate AI into their products, which will require these companies to be able to find ways to integrate AI that users actually care about.”

  26. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “AI fanatics are currently fantasizing over a world where they can put a few sentences into a prompt and create an entire series of TV, unable to realize that we are rapidly approaching the top of generative AI's S-curve, where after a period of rapid growth things begin to slow down dramatically.”

  27. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “And as I've suggested above, while these models might "improve," the billions of dollars burned by OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI's models have found few ways to mitigate the restrictions of an artificial intelligence that doesn't have an intellect.”

  28. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Moreover, the scale is different, and serving a webpage will always cost less than processing a request sent to a generative AI model.”

  29. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “What these stories don't seem to discuss are whether these companies are making a profit, likely because generative AI is a deeply unprofitable product, demanding massive amounts of cloud computing power”

  30. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Tech's largest cash cow since the cloud computing boom of the 2000s is based on a technology that is impossibly unreliable, a technology with a potent inverted Midas touch that burns far more money than it makes.”

  31. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “We are beset with spam calls, spam texts, spam messages on social networks, notifications from apps we forgot we installed, search results that are stuffed with results built specifically to manipulate search engines, emails from companies we’ve bought one thing from, popular home pages full of AI-spun misinformation and algorithms that try and hurt and manipulate us.”

  32. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The podcast has also struggled to retain its initial momentum, with viewership tumbling from 160,000 views on the first episode to around 40,000 an episode for the last 9 months, with the exception of the George Carlin special which sits at 55,000 views at the time of writing.”

  33. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Already, despite only being available to a handful of users, Grok has fabricated a story about a British MP being expelled from Parliament, presumably confusing the ouster of disgraced New York congressman George Santos with a separate and unrelated story from across the Atlantic.”

  34. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Musk rushed a Large Language Model to market in a few months, one where bigotry is a feature not a bug, and has potentially trained it on the garbled musings of people that he has incentivized to fill its data source with nonsense.”

  35. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Musk is already using Grok as a marketing vehicle for X Premium+’s $16-a-month subscription, and if he actually offers it to every subscriber, there’s no way in hell that this is a profitable transaction.”

  36. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “If Musk launches Grok to every Premium+ subscriber, it creates an inverse revenue model where the site becomes less profitable as its products become more popular.”

  37. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “OpenAI was already in a crisis before Altman was fired.”

  38. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “With AI development an incredibly costly business, OpenAI can’t afford a tightening of the capital floodgates.”

  39. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Shear doesn’t have much of an AI background, and has never faced the regulatory and legal challenges that threaten OpenAI and the wider AI sector.”

  40. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Artificial intelligence allows the modern executive to recategorize more and more labor as “unskilled” because a computer could theoretically do it, even if the work product sucks.”

  41. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “A reasonable person might think that companies wouldn’t lower the quality of their output just to theoretically save a dollar, and they would be wrong.”

  42. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Either way, we are entering an era where companies will begin testing how much they can automate away the human element of their business, and how much of the customer experience they can trim off until they start losing money.”

  43. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “I believe we are going to see a surge of companies desperately piling money into AI with little regard for the consequences, leading to several smaller versions of the $440 million software glitch that destroyed financial services firm Knight Capital.”

  44. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “These are not real companies (real companies make money and sell things), but symbolic items that venture capitalists hope can be sold to other companies or credulous retail investors because there isn’t a chance in hell they become functional businesses.”

  45. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Even now, post-SVB, AI companies with no revenue can raise tens of millions — or $150 million, in the case of Character.ai — because they resemble what’s “hot” without any consideration as to whether they’re real businesses.”

  46. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “People are concerned that AI is going to turn the internet into a porridge of low-quality service journalism and/or ecommerce marketing, and I’m not worried because that’s what the internet already is.”

  47. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “AI will allow the AMPTP to reduce writers’ rooms to one person and one machine, which will in turn reduce the number of people in the Writers Guild of America, which will in turn weaken and eventually destroy one of the most powerful unions in the world.”

  48. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “While a human being might get involved, those person-to-person interactions will become increasingly rare, and as a result distance the company from any customer responsibility.”

  49. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The strike has already cost the entertainment industry billions of dollars of losses in share value, and all because the AMPTP has decided that streaming content isn’t as valuable as television or film (despite taking just as much effort), and because entertainment’s elites very clearly want to be able to use artificial intelligence to write content.”

  50. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The lack of a robust labor movement within tech also contributes to this anxiety, with no unions to protect against layoffs caused by a company’s focus on generative AI.”

  51. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The result will be genuine human suffering as a result of dressing a fallible, experimental intelligence up as an authoritative source of information. People will be inspired to harm themselves or others, all while their ideas and likenesses are counterfeited and monetized, all so that wealthy executives can tell the world - and Wall Street - that their companies are “innovative.””

  52. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “These moves are unquestionably hurting Google, to the point that Microsoft’s Bing (paired with OpenAI’s ChatGPT), has gained major headlines for providing the service that everybody wished Google would.”

  53. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Mark Zuckerberg was wrong about the metaverse, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon were wrong about Web3, David Sacks was wrong about just about everything, and Google has obfuscated the purpose of their search engine so badly that they have had to beg their co-founders to return to help fight OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a product from a company of a few hundred people which just got a $14 billion investment from their biggest competitor (just after said competitor laid off 10,000 people).”