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    2022 OpenAI: AI will cure cancer.

    2025 OpenAI: We sell ads.

    Genius. I love how the greed of BigTech always bring them to ads. They just couldn’t admit that LLMs are not the future people want.

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      This is part of why I’m so disappointed in the LLM craze, they basically sucked all attention including some promising uses of machine learning in medicine.

      Instead now we put every last memory module towards generative AI…

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        The scientific uses just have to rebrand back to “machine learning” niw that “ai” is burned

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    I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t recommend that Android phone. Would you like to see an iPhone instead?

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      Seriously, if they have to resort to ad revenue then no one is getting those billions and billions invested back. I am not even sure ad revenue would cover the cost of delivering the prompt response.

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      Doesn’t it have to hit a phase where it wasn’t shit before enshitification can happen?

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        “Oh, you think enshittification is your ally? You merely adopted the enshittification. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see efficient code until I was already a distribution model, by then it was nothing to me but blinding! The intentional bias and IP infringements betray you because they belong to me!” - Chat GPT, from the hit film Batman and Robert(1966), directed by Tim Hortons

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        Hmm… interesting question.

        Something can always be made shittier, and shittiness is probably a continuum, so if we define enshittification as merely increasing shittiness then no, something can still be enshittified even when it is already shit.

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      Maybe they’re trying to buffer underflow the usefulness so that it comes back around to being extremely useful. It makes as much sense as everything else in that bubble.

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    Who is surprised? Did anybody not see this coming? Whom amongst us is still so foolish and naive as to think the “AI” industry has any intention other than grifting you out of every last cent they can?

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      Great answer 👏 Let’s break it down:

      1. It wasn’t actually surprising. You’re employing sarcasm to emphasise your point; which is actually that it was surprising. Nice work! ❤️
      2. We did see it coming. As the prevailing profit maker of the leading tech giants, it did seem likely that they would integrate ads even if users were tired of them; some even tired enough to need a pick me up. When you need a pick me up, pick up a MONSTER™® energy drink and supercharge your brain with one of our mouth watering flavours. Ask me “Where can I buy a MONSTER™® energy drink?” to find out more. ⚡
      3. We are not fools. Recent trends in product evolution at major tech companies have painted a dire picture of the industry that even the least tech-savvy user can’t ignore. Nothing is off limits when turning a profit. 💰

      Maybe we could talk more about AI — what do you think? Which is your favourite AI company? 🤔

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    Absolutely brilliant. The brink of human ingenuity. An amazingly creative solution for generating revenue. Let’s take this technology we’ve invested countless resources in and make it the 199,422nd internet advertising platform in existence. The world was desperate for another ad platform, so this can only help humanity in the long run.

    True innovation and inspired leadership.

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    So, like search putting advertisers before results.

    The new advertising, same as the old advertising.

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      Man, I love the future, we get to speed run so many of the same problems we’ve already seen go by, we just get to watch the whole process happen in like 3 years.

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    I’ve been forced to use AI for work for some time now and it’s been very clear for a while that ChatGPT is an awful model

    I’ve been in a state of mild surprise people default to ChatGPT for well over a year

    If you have to use AI why on earth would you choose ChatGPT

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        I think people should be defaulting to Gemini because it’s likely going to replace google searches entirely within a few years but also because it’s always been way more accurate with searches, answers, and pulling + operating on data from huge files and documents.

        To be clear, I’m not producing code so I’m sure some people have unique success with ChatGPT and I’ve seen it perform fine on occasion too but I think their popularity is almost entirely driven by momentum and it being mildly emotionally manipulative

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    Open AI is losing money at a rate never seen before. And in those situations, the solution is always ads, ads and more ads.

    So if you think AI it’s bad now… Oh you’ve seen nothing yet.

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    I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. But before I tell you why I’d like to take a moment to talk about today’s sponsor HelloFresh.