im honestly even skeptical the AI bubble popping will make AI go away. I think we’re more likely to see a 2000s situation where the bottom falls out, the actually dominant companies remain, and we find ourselves dealing with the one or two companies appointed to carry it forward. Consolidation, not outright destruction.
which depresses the unholy fuck out of me
the way power and capital are all in on it conceptually - it just does too many things that serve them - they want the skilled labor elimination, they want the information control, they want the thing to mature enough to be an entertainment replacement.
i frankly half expect, a decade from now, seeing AI companies buying out entertainment companies and industries and just shuttering them so that people have to use their product. e.x.: buying up instrument creators so you have to either be wealthy or capitulate and use a LLM to do that labor for you.
the future is bleak, and the way they want that technology to develop, and the sheer amount of money and “were forcing this down your throats” that’s happening in several places and in several sectors of the economy - i absolutely despise i have to talk to an AI chatbot to apply to certain jobs now, but that’s psychologically conditioning the workforce to accept and use it at the point of a gun, and it’ll work over time if it is allowed to continue.
I am pretty sure tech is about to devour itself entirely, leaving everything even more consolidated and what’s left even more entrenched in our lives, with more power to influence and demand presence in the zeitgeist, no matter what the average person wants.
Like, yall, we need to be thinking really hard about what that technology is intended to do and the logical consequences of it persisting. Do not sit and hope the old normal will return. Historically this has never fucking happened. The .com crash did not kill the internet, it just heralded the end of it as a frontier.
im honestly even skeptical the AI bubble popping will make AI go away. I think we’re more likely to see a 2000s situation where the bottom falls out, the actually dominant companies remain, and we find ourselves dealing with the one or two companies appointed to carry it forward. Consolidation, not outright destruction.
which depresses the unholy fuck out of me
the way power and capital are all in on it conceptually - it just does too many things that serve them - they want the skilled labor elimination, they want the information control, they want the thing to mature enough to be an entertainment replacement.
i frankly half expect, a decade from now, seeing AI companies buying out entertainment companies and industries and just shuttering them so that people have to use their product. e.x.: buying up instrument creators so you have to either be wealthy or capitulate and use a LLM to do that labor for you.
the future is bleak, and the way they want that technology to develop, and the sheer amount of money and “were forcing this down your throats” that’s happening in several places and in several sectors of the economy - i absolutely despise i have to talk to an AI chatbot to apply to certain jobs now, but that’s psychologically conditioning the workforce to accept and use it at the point of a gun, and it’ll work over time if it is allowed to continue.
I am pretty sure tech is about to devour itself entirely, leaving everything even more consolidated and what’s left even more entrenched in our lives, with more power to influence and demand presence in the zeitgeist, no matter what the average person wants.
Like, yall, we need to be thinking really hard about what that technology is intended to do and the logical consequences of it persisting. Do not sit and hope the old normal will return. Historically this has never fucking happened. The .com crash did not kill the internet, it just heralded the end of it as a frontier.