Screenshot of an excerpt from a LinkedIn post:
“ALL OF THAT BEING SAID, there are limits to my optimism. Some days, I read about some rapacious weirdos' new Al product that is so deranged, so bereft of purpose, that so plainly exposes its creators' sociopathy, that I'm not sustained by the promise of next year's information utopia or whatever. I forget everything I've just written up there, because it's pushed out of my brain by an all-consuming rage.
“What those talented engineers could have built instead! What those GPUs could GPU instead! But I'm not mad just because there is a dumb thing—I am mad because the gravity of its stupidity is so strong that it
will pull all of us into it, in a cosmic black hole of bullshit. Al discourse is already muddied to the point of froth, drowning out intelligent conversations that need to happen. At the very least, this distracts us, and it might possibly drive us insane.
“IP laws need modernizing, fair use should be expanded, and I do love my sharing, but *not like this, you fools.*”
Dunking on terrible products to repel our industry’s worst ideas is good, actually. I’m just doing my part. If you think about it, I’m the real patriot here. You’re welcome.
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