Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time

Dude actually tweeted this…

Seriously, has there ever been a lamer person than Elon Musk?

An under-oath deposition by the alleged victim in which she affirmed Altman sexually abused her starting when she was age 3 and lasting until she was age 12.

There are also countless former associates of Altman who have gone on record stating that he’s a compulsive liar and narcissist. That’s obviously not direct evidence of anything, but it establishes a clear pattern of untrustworthy and potentially abusive behavior from Altman.

The civil case was ultimately dismissed because the alleged victim refused to submit to an independent medical examination requested by the Judge… but such refusals are extremely common among people who have been traumatized by sexual abuse and don’t want some stranger poking around their private parts.

Sam Altman has been credibly accused of raping his sister.

…not going anywhere with this, just felt compelled to share.

At least if a priest assaults my kid he can be arrested and punished. If an AI talks my kid into killing themselves, it’s just “oh well, try not to do it again”

Every single one of those companies reported negative free cash flow this quarter, and some have been running in the negative for a lot longer. The only tech company at that scale NOT losing money hand over fist is Apple, and they’re the only one not investing heavily in AI… but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

I agree that they’re lying, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they really do stop training on “live” internet data.

The lie is in their stated reasoning. This has nothing to do with AI being “too dangerous” to release into the wild. There’s no reason to involve AI in gathering training data anyway… it’s always been possible to scrape the internet quickly and cheaply with non-AI crawlers and bots.

The real reason is that the internet just doesn’t have enough useful training data anymore. There’s so much AI slop out there that the frontier labs risk model collapse if they continue to train on it. Large swathes of the internet have also become openly hostile to AI, either blocking the traffic outright or redirecting their crawlers into AI tarpits that intentionally waste their time and feed them endless reems of useless garbage. They’ve poisoned the proverbial well for everyone and now they’re afraid to drink the water.

So the title should read that the AI companies are gouging some of their customers because they can.

But that’s not what the underlying study shows. It found that LLMs (including the ones you can self-host, not just the premium models) require more tokens to answer the same prompt in foreign languages versus in English. This is almost certainly a consequence of English being over-represented in the training data (and to a lesser extent, tokenizers that were designed with English in mind). It’s not some intentional and nefarious price gouge.

Don’t get me wrong, I know for a fact that the frontier labs are engaged in all sorts of nefarious anti-consumer shit — but this ain’t that.

Mario theme intensifies

Even the most basic of AI tool, assuming they used them for their terraforming, would know better.

You would think so, but no. Not in my experience, at least. Especially if you’re focused on a narrow goal or fixing a very specific problem, AI agents tend to fixate on the happy path to the neglect of everything else. They may start out seeing the big picture, but it takes almost no time at all for stuff like security to drop from their attention unless you’re actively reminding them.

This is exactly the kind of issue I’ve seen AI cause at the enterprise I work for.

OpenAI says

I literally cannot think of another company I trust less to say anything useful, interesting or true.

That’s only one of many harms it does to the human experience. Look at a company like Facebook. Do you think socializing that industry and sharing the profits with the users would mitigate the harms it does to our lives? I sure don’t.

delegating the thinking and feeling parts of the human experience

This would be a problem even if the technology were completely free and open. LLMs poison peoples minds and make them boring, helpless and stupid.

If Facebook were a nonprofit, it would still be terrible for people.

The idea of AI is not the problem.

For many of us, the idea is also the problem. Stealing the collected works of humanity in order to build a machine meant for delegating the thinking and feeling parts of the human experience is deeply antisocial, and an attack on our dignity as people

Good.

Might as well just stop using AI agents that that point.

Wouldn’t that be terrible…

Worse, the whole project of “AI” is about privatizing what used to be public information and moving it behind a monthly subscription cost. If the AI firms get their way, people will have even less to spend.

When the name is worth more than the product, you know the whole industry is bullshit.

Jesus… I totally misread the article. I thought it was 6 trillion total, not 6 trillion yearly revenue. That’s so, so much worse.

We’re up to 8.3 billion people now, fam.

6 trillion / 8.3 billion = ~750

And that number has to be spread over 5 years since the target date to raise the 6 trillion is 2031.

750 / 5 = 150

But, like I said, that’s still just a conservative estimate that doesn’t account for the fact that the AI firms have astronomical operating costs to cover.

In order to make $6 trillion by 2031, every human being on earth would have to spend at least $150 per year on average.

Maybe that doesn’t sound like a lot if you’re already paying a $100 a month for a Claude max subscription or whatever, but consider that the vast majority of people don’t pay for any AI at all, and have no interest in ever paying for it.

Also, $150 is a best-case scenario where revenue is 100% profit. In actual reality, the profit margins are much, much lower, and may not even exist at all!