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The technology behind LLMs is a 1000000x force multiplier for scammers, spammers, astroturfers. For your average person, it's like Spell Check 2.0.

A lot of companies are taking their existing AI-less SaaS products and are looking to upcharge $10-$50/month for reselling you a handful of "Open"AI API calls.

The free and open web is closing shop because they don't want to be scraped by LLM trainers. Or because Google algorithms allow a rando to buy a domain, put a "reword this article" LLM proxy over your website to steal all your organic traffic.

Teledildonics' day will come

Linux desktop for sure

Contenders include tesla's humanoid robots, neural implants for the average consumer, using quantum computers for tasks they aren't meant for, and a flying car startup that accidentally sparks a dozen miniature 9/11s

I feel like of the VC tech buzzes, the "ai" thing has had the most use to the capitalist class as a tool of labour discipline. It doesn't have to be that good (read: good at what it says it does) to do that.

They'll finally invent teleportation, but it's the most unhealthy version of it, but because it's so hyped up, the ultra wealthy use it all the time not realizing you lose 0.001% of all your mass each time you do it, until an influencer realizes he lost weight using the teleporter and uses it over and over again, until he had teleported away approximately 1% of his body weight. Unfortunately a large amount of that small percentage was most of the wall of his Aortic valve, causing him to internally bleed out in a single minute, when it inevitably tore mid teleport.

Theranos but for cum

It's going back to On-Prem computing, driven by large reductions in VC funding. This will drive tools and products that make the transition easier. It'll reach a hype pitch as everybody rediscovers how to run their own servers, until the maintenance bit comes 'round and The Cloud (aka, managed services) makes a comeback.

A.I. laywers that make judges and supreme court irrelevant - but the training data is stuck on a 8-1 conservative slant.

ARG
Cathode Ray Tube computers like in fallout
MySpace
Web1 but somehow bad
Just actual slavery ™️

The amount of time I waste at work talking about “AI” I stg

Probably the worst part about this is the massive number of data centers and power / CO2 emissions being spent on a solution in search of a problem

AR now that apple got into it

Transparent displays. Samsung and LG were showing off transparent screens at CES this year. Transparent TVs will be extremely expensive and not practical at all but they look cool so it will be the new techbro status symbol.

Weird I thought the ChatBot stuff was actually a bit more legit than these other things. Like, not in that it was actual AI or anything but that it worked well enough that actual proper capitalists, not just VC "nouveau" riche dorks, were considering using it for actual stuff, or at least trying to.

A decent amount of people on the lefty web seemed worried about it

Mixed Reality, once Apple VisionPro prices drop a year from now.

Boutique blu-rays of Turkish soap operas.

Peptide therapy biohacking