Every AI spring brings an even harsher AI winter.
Oh, I expect a real harsh AI winter once this spring comes to a close - the public isn't just overtly disappointed about AI's failure to deliver, but outright angry at the nasty shit AI's unleashed upon them.
2026
Not soon enough. I'd be happy if they were forced to list it right the fuck now.
evidence of wider continued rising of the tide against saltman’s bullshit grows
Precisely when that rising tide will drown Altman I'm not sure, but I feel safe in saying it'll probably drown the rest of the AI industry (and potentially "AI" as a concept) as well - Altman is pretty much the face of this AI bubble, after all.
The rising tide was likely also helped along by OpenAI going fully for-profit, which shattered the humanitarian guise it spent the last decade or so building, and, to quote myself, "given the true believers reason to believe [Altman would] commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck".
Done.
But the high-performance GPUs that these AI operations rely on are more general-purpose even if they’re optimized for AI workloads. The bubble is still active enough that there doesn’t appear to be much talk about it, but what kind of use might we see some of these chips and datacenters put to as the bubble burns down?
If those GPUs end up being used for Glaze and Nightshade, I'd laugh like a hyena.
Bonus: Tech cultist and disgraced sex pest Robert Scobie jumped in on this, and got sneered pretty hard by Ed-Newton Rex and Gary Marcus:
The Bookseller tried to hawk AI to its readerbase and they are not having it - they're getting ratioed hard:
r/SubredditDrama's watching shit go down in r/EffectiveAltruism, and there's a lotta sneers going on
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