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I don't think "AI bad" but I think some of the people saying "AI bad" have interesting reasons for saying so. For the record I believe a lot of the "AI Bad" di

I don't think "AI bad" but I think some of the people saying "AI bad" have interesting reasons for saying so. For the record I believe a lot of the "AI Bad" discourse is a direct carryover from "NFT/Crypto Bad" discourse. A lot of the annoying voices that were loudly promoting NFTs and dodgy web3 companies two years ago are now LOUDLY promoting dodgy AI companies... Some of it still rings true, a lot of it seems like "twitter is still mad"

lxgr 2y ago
The parallels even extend further: A lot of the people (largely correctly!) crying "scam" back then for crypto are now crying scam for AI. If I had to draw a historical analogy, it'd be to the dot com bubble: Yes, it was a bubble – yet the Internet turns out to have been real. It just was almost impossible to guess correctly as to which company would still be around after the bubble burst (to say nothing of the now-giants that didn't even exist back then). But that kind of bubble is very different from crypto, which so far has yet to prove that there was any substance to it, despite having gone through at least one global hype cycle and bubble burst two years ago. I don't recall there being two years of frantic search of an application for the web/Internet back in the early 2000s.