I like seeing how @pluralistic is refining his anti #AI arguments over time. In this interview, I love the idea of reframing "hallucinations" as "defects", the analogy that trying to get #AGI out of #LLMs is like breeding faster horses and expecting one to give birth to a locomotive, and ridiculing the premise that "if you teach enough words to the word-guessing machine it will become God."

youtu.be/9LgLg0zlbJQ

#AIBubble

The American Prospect: Prices in the Machine

AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

prospect.org/2025/12/02/prices…

#AI #LLMs

Prices in the Machine

^{David Dayen (The American Prospect)}

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘓𝘦𝘔𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Version without paywall:

archive.is/oHoVO

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

Rise of the LLeMmings

^{Lila Shroff (The Atlantic)}