I am so sick and tired of "AI"
May. 20th, 2025 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liam_on_linuxSpent much of today getting a Live AROS USB key working, which wasn't trivial... it needed a USB 3 key, which I had to go and buy specially.
But after that... I am so tired. I want to write about new stuff in software, but there feels to be no area not contaminated with "AI".
I get the depressing feeling that computing is just being eaten up by bloody "AI". Virtually every press release I've seen this week has been AI. Mozilla adopts new AI search engine. Red Hat releases RHEL 10 with built in AI chat bot to help clueless PFYs admin the thing. Windows bloody Notepad has AI built in. AI in Google Docs. AI boosters in my mentions telling me and my friends that AI is helping them read antique books or whatever.
I get the depressing feeling that computing is just being eaten up by bloody "AI". Virtually every press release I've seen this week has been AI. Mozilla adopts new AI search engine. Red Hat releases RHEL 10 with built in AI chat bot to help clueless PFYs admin the thing. Windows bloody Notepad has AI built in. AI in Google Docs. AI boosters in my mentions telling me and my friends that AI is helping them read antique books or whatever.
Is there anywhere outside of retrocomputing that doesn't have AI in it?
"AI" is not "AI". The liars and the shills redefined what people used to mean by "AI" as "AGI", artificial _general_ intelligence, so they could market their stupid plagiarism bots as AI.
AGI is not real. It doesn't exist. It will probably never exist. Hell, at the rate humanity is going, we won't be able to build new computers any more by 2050 and the survivors at the poles will be nostalgic for electricity.
AI is a scam. It's a hoax. It's fake news. There is no AI, and what is being sold as AI is such an incredibly poor fake that it is profoundly disheartening that so many people are so stupid to be deceived into thinking it is AI.
The blockchain is a scam. Everything to do with it is a scam.
Alternative medicine is a scam. All of it. There is no such thing. If it's called "alternative" that means it's been proved not to work.
All religions are scams. No exceptions.
People have made billions from selling scams for my whole lifetime.
Meanwhile, other scams, like plastics being recyclable -- they aren't, it's a lie -- or biofuels -- also a lie -- mean our civilisation is on the verge of collapse. We are killing the planetary ecosphere that keeps us alive with plastic and pollution from burning stuff. We have to stop burning everything, stop cutting down trees, and stop making all forms of single-use products. No more jet planes. No more private cars. No more foreign holidays. We can't afford it.
And with all that we are almost certainly still doomed.
But I kind of want to see my industry go first, if all it's got now is AI.
Snag is, I need a job. I have Ada to pay for.
Re: The AI you hate IS avoidable
Date: 2025-05-29 08:15 pm (UTC)https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-productivity-boom-forecasts-countered-by-theory-and-data-by-daron-acemoglu-2024-05
Otherwise...
I think you're being too moderate here.
I am perfectly willing to admit that I could be wrong on this. However, my impression is that the only sane, coldly rational conclusion to draw from current LLM-bot powered "generative AI" is that people are easily fooled by parlour tricks.
As a comparison, worldwide homeopathy sales were about $10 _billion_ last year.
Homeopathy absolutely, categorically, DOES NOT WORK. Not at all, ever, not even a little bit on some people.
Cf.
https://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/
It is pure undiluted 100% horseshit. It is a scam. All alternative medicine is a scam. If it worked, it would be medicine. The fact that it's not means it's been proved not to work.
Acupuncture, reiki, reflexology, aromatherapy, whatever: all fake. All pure total scam and nothing else, no exceptions.
There are lots of things that are believed in by millions that categorically are not true. Every religion in the world for a start.
"AI" is homeopathy for tech bros.
It doesn't work. Like homeopathy, the idea, the mechanism, the execution, the result, and the tests all show _it does not work_.
I want to see more of
I am not likely to ever be swayed by "well maybe it's not _all_ bad" arguments.
It _is_ all bad.