AI Companies Are Parasites

aogaili

Parasite takes and gives nothing back, but clearly a lot of people are using those models, which the author ignored, so the entire premise is false.

gridspy

Bear in mind that like many toxic blooms, once the investment hysteria feeding them dies out they will die also. - Companies using investment funds to play the Ai Agent lottery will run out of funds - Less tokens will be demanded, causing AI companies to raise prices to pay for overheads - Bubble pops.

simianwords

I find it sad that people don't generally think about non zero sum possibilities. I think it comes from a misreading of Marx because Marx considers value coming from Labor which is purely zero sum. In my bubble within friends and family, practically everyone uses AI and has fun using it and gets value out of it.

senko

The post is a zero-information personal rant (good for him/her!), impossible to comment on without violating at least half of the HN guidelines[0]. [0] literally; even this comment violates a few

altmanaltman

I mean, if you really extend that line of thinking, human beings are parasites in general. We are just sucking up all the resources to make more Walmarts and McDonald's. It would then be fair to say that humans should be dislodged from the earth and should never have attached to it in the first place. However, that would be a simplistic and rather naive view of how society works and does not have a solid moral standing behind the argument other than an emotional appeal: "THE ROBOTS ARE STEALING OUR HUMANITY!!!" Rather, why not go deeper? Why not look at the world around you and see what incentives we've built up that allow us to plow trillions of dollars into this without a second thought. We've seen the bust cycles happen and yet here we are: going all-in on a potential technology that might/might not work out as we are hoping it will. If it truly works out as these companies are hoping then it'll be an economic disaster. If it doesn't work as these companies are hoping then it'll be an economic disaster. Yet the Darios and Altmans of the world always find a way.

discreteevent

Watch the parasites swarm all over this thread. (It's been flagged already). The host (HN) is at the point of suffocation.

smitty1e

> Reddit is selling access to its data, but that data is human-generated and depends on a flagging community the company seems, at best, indifferent to. Well, how much genitAIlia do you need to see?