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  1. 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”

  2. 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.”

  3. 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.”

  4. 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.”

  5. 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.”

  6. 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.”

  7. 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.”

  8. 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.”

  9. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

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

  10. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

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

  11. 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.”

  12. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Much like cryptocurrency, the AI conversation almost always discusses what might happen rather than what is happening, making any normal person ask the question “why did venture invest $15 billion in something you can’t really describe?””

  13. 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.”

  14. 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.”

  15. 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.”

  16. 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.”

  17. 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.”

  18. 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.”

  19. 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.”

  20. 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.”

  21. 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.”

  22. 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.”

  23. 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.”

  24. 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.””

  25. 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.”

  26. 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).”