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Claims from this post (11)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“While one might argue that it'll mean faster generative processes, there really is no barometer for what "better" looks like, and perhaps that's why ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs have yet to take a leap beyond being able to generate stuff.”
Our reading: ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs have not progressed beyond generating content, possibly because there is no measure of what 'better' means.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“The training data crisis is one that doesn’t get enough attention, but it’s sufficiently dire that it has the potential to halt (or dramatically slow) any AI development in the near future.”
Our reading: The training data shortage could halt or dramatically slow AI development in the near future.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“In essence, replacing humans with AI might break everything if you're one of those bosses that doesn't actually know what the fuck it is they're talking about.”
Our reading: Replacing human workers with AI may break operations when the managers doing it do not understand the work.
No horizon
Only if: if bosses don't understand the work
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“And fully replacing any creative is so very unlikely if you're doing so based on copying a million pieces of someone else's homework.”
Our reading: Fully replacing any creative worker is very unlikely if it is done by copying a million pieces of someone else's work.
No horizon
Only if: if the replacement is based on copying a million pieces of someone else's homework
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Perhaps Sam Altman's energy breakthrough could be these fucking AI companies being made to pay for new power infrastructure.”
Our reading: AI companies should be made to pay for new power infrastructure.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Generative AI at best processes information when it trains on data, but at no point does it "learn" or "understand," because everything it's doing is based on ingesting training data and developing answers based on a mathematical sense or probability rather than any appreciation or comprehension of the material itself.”
Our reading: Generative AI does not learn or understand; it produces answers probabilistically from training data.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“LLMs are entirely different pieces of technology to that of "an artificial intelligence" in the sense that the AI bubble is hyping, and it's disgraceful that the AI industry has taken so much money and attention with such a flagrant, offensive lie.”
Our reading: LLMs are not 'artificial intelligence' as hyped, and the AI industry has raised money on a lie.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Generative AI is not the future, but a regurgitation of the past, a useful-yet-not-groundbreaking way to quickly generate "new" data from old that costs far too much to make the compute and energy demands worth it.”
Our reading: Generative AI is not the future but a regurgitation of the past: a useful but not groundbreaking way to quickly generate 'new' data from old, which costs far too much to make its compute and energy demands worth it.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“Without a real, tangible breakthrough — one that would require them to leave the world of LLMs entirely, in my opinion — it's unclear how generative AI companies can survive.”
Our reading: Without a real, tangible breakthrough, which in the author's opinion would require leaving LLMs entirely, it is unclear how generative AI companies can survive.
No horizon
Only if: without a real, tangible breakthrough
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“I understand that big tech desperately needs this to be the next hypergrowth market as they haven't got any others, but pursuing this quasi-useful environmental disaster-causing cloud efficiency boondoggle will send shockwaves through the industry.”
Our reading: Big tech's pursuit of generative AI will send shockwaves through the tech industry.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“It's all a disgraceful waste.”
Our reading: The generative AI boom is a disgraceful waste.
No horizon
Held from this post (7)
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- The two reviews read the claim differently
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- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Google's emissions grew 48% over the last five years while it chased a technology that made its search engine even worse, with little to show for it.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
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- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Generative AI is unprofitable and unsustainable, and it is fundamentally limited in what it can do because it generates answers probabilistically.
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Copy editors and concept artists provide far more valuable work than any generative AI can, yet because managers don't appreciate or take part in labor, these jobs are under assault from LLMs, to the point that copywriters are now being paid to make LLM output sound more human.