You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them

chuckadams

The argument seems to be that Metaverse was a flop and FB did bad stuff, therefore AI will be a flop. That's certainly ... words.

austin-cheney

Everybody hates tech. Everybody hates tech billionaires. Nobody wants their bullshit. Yes… kind of. I am old and always have been, so naturally I don’t like things I believe children falsely claim they cannot live without. Social media comes to mind.

Aurornis

This is a lot of words mixed with ragebait to try to argue that AI is a fad that will go away. EDIT: This substack is non-stop grievances about AI posted multiple times per week. There's an audience of people who want to be as angry as possible about AI and this Substack is here to sell you subscriptions to that with gems like this designed to make you bristle with anger at the enemy > They are trained on racism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, nationalism, anti-Semitism > The technology industry sells a story of inevitability. It is, in no small part, a profoundly anti-democratic story, one that dismisses if not denies any attempt at agency, let alone resistance. "There's nothing you can do," investors and CEOs and pundits parrot. "Resistance is futile," they smirk (yet another example of their incredible inability to understand the science fiction they like to reference).

mhjkl

There's a big difference between things like Metaverse, social media and AI. The former are mainly entertainment/communication products that rely on network effects, so if people don't like them they're bust. AI is a capital good so it doesn't need to be popular as long as it does profitable work

raincole

> The future that the vast majority of people want – for themselves, for their children – is not one in which we can only afford to buy digital replicas of products and digital real estate Sure. Everybody wants real things. Nobody wants to work in factory assembly lines or construction sites. But it must be AI's fault.

dbgrman

Too many disparate thoughts in this writing but i admire the sentiment. VR was fraught with problems from the get go and even if we imagine a perfect technology, its a solution looking for a problem at best. I don’t know if that is the same necessarily for AI, but I can see futures where it ends up in doom and gloom.

OrangePilled

I am less frustrated with Big Tech than I am with haphazard writing about it. In a week there will be another screed like this, with another flurry of links and quotes for readers to work through (or not). And who gets wiser from it?

cynicalsecurity

Automation is bad. Bring back hard manual labour.

mojomark

"...[the prediction that AI will continue to grow] will be proven wrong because everybody hates it." I have no love for Zuckerberg or Lucky or Musk or any of those gadooshbags, but I don't hate generative AI. It's a useful tool and I've been using it consistently every day for well over a year. I'm part of "everybody", so that's at least one counterexample.