LLM Inevitabilism | slacker news

I hate AI. I'm so sick of it.

I read a story about 14 year olds that are adopting AI boyfriends. They spend 18 hours a day in conversation with chatbots. Their parents are worried because they are withdrawing from school and losing their friends.

I hate second guessing emails that I've read, wondering if my colleagues are even talking to me or if they are using AI. I hate the idea that AI will replace my job.

Even if it unlocks "economic value" -- what does that even mean? We'll live in fucking blade runner but at least we'll all have a ton of money?

I agree, nobody asked what I wanted. But if they did I'd tell them, I don't want it, I don't want any of it.

Excuse me, I'll go outside now and play with my dogs and stare at a tree.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I feel the same way, though I want to nit with one point you made:

> but at least we’ll all have a ton of money?

I just don’t see it going that way. The only ones that are going to win if this stuff actually makes it out of the primordial AI swamp are the ones training and running the models. It’s like any other capitalistic thing, the ones owning the means (the models and infrastructure and whatnot) make all the money.

The only thing I see in all of this is widening the wealth gap. Sure, there may be some performative, pity pennies thrown in the direction of a lucky few, to keep the envy alive, but it’s just going to enable amassing more and more wealth and resources to those that already have a pile of gold too large to spend even in one hundred thousand lifetimes.

I’ll tend to my tomatoes.