> What if [various "AI" claims are] intended to exhaust our ability to consider other possibilities? > Could AI be a con? Oh my, yes. However I think they wan

> What if [various "AI" claims are] intended to exhaust our ability to consider other possibilities? > Could AI be a con? Oh my, yes. However I think they want us to believe their claims and send them money, as opposed to using the claims to misdirect from something else. The direct profit motive is sufficiently compelling. To be more specific, there are people out there creating cons ("investment opportunities") based on misrepresenting LLM-generated story characters as real-world entities. For example, suppose I make a program trained on all the human stories of detectives and Christmas, and it generates a story of SherlockSantaBot, a fictional character depicted as being extremely clever and also able to know the good/ bad quotient of all children in the world. Does that mean I actually invented an real AI with those capabilities? Nope.