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Grift? While there is some valid discussion that needs to be had about the short comings and application of AI (LLMs, neural nets, diffusion models, etc), lump

• kodah 4y ago
  Thanks for asking! I've responded elsewhere in the thread to this. Feel free to cross reference those as well. There's a large amount of cost sunk into the idea of conversational AI from energy use (not just during training, but data storage, on-going compute, etc), to the cost associated with businesses employing people and the personal investment that folks have invested via degrees and time. All of this creates a pretty deep trench worth defending by various interests. These things clearly aren't ready to be put into search engines, yet here we are, and there are people defending it. That's the original grift that makes it akin to crypto if you believe the real problem in crypto wasn't the tech itself but people pushing these concepts into mainstream use before they'd really had time to be vetted and fully understood. The societal impact was massive and on-going. There are also grifts that come from the seed grift, which gets into AI plagiarization and how to train these models. When you add it all together and then frame it under the premise that it's now in one of the most trusted and prominent places in search, I feel justified calling the underlying activity a grift.