It's important to understand at some level what the frothy valuations of AI related shit are about: they are about the delta between jobs and not-jobs. That is the "opportunity." nVidia makes the substrate for it, and its vendor implementations are laser focused on flensing knowledge and creative workers. Sometimes, you have to get down into the weeds to understand this stuff - the big players in this space all happen believe things about other people's intellectual property that are orthogonal to human flourishing. It appears to be endemic in their spaces. Other times, we don't have to work so hard. For example: Perplexity literally duplicates other people's work on its own site. Then, it will generate a podcast based on the uncredited work. They want the same thing as Google's Gemini, in that you'll come to it for a search experience that's owned end to end - powered by your own uncredited work. This isn't an exaggeration. It's barely editorial. I probably didn't need to use the word "flense" but also, you know… I kinda did. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati says weird shit a lot. That's most of what I know about her. The first time she reared from the foetid mire, it was to give the least credible, most egregious answer to how OpenAI had trained its Sora video model. Nobody from there is good at answering this question, because the only way to answer it is to say that "it's based off a ton of shit from YouTube, bruh." The new version of their playbook is to cut in places that are likely to sue slash talk shit about them 24/7 - The Atlantic and Vox both cut deals. Not sure why you'd do that if you didn't need to. Sorta gives it away.
The next one I saw, the one the strip is based on and the one that's doing numbers these days, is where she says that some creative jobs should never have existed, and they get to determine which jobs those are. I'm starting to think that some of these tools they made could obviate a huge part of their C-Suite, but somehow these things are never in the crosshairs. It's the people they hate - the irreducible humanity that is always underfoot.
Because there's an existential angle to this, you get down to the metal of people's positions pretty quick. People who consider themselves "Rational" say the weirdest shit about this. The one that I like is when people say that there's literally nothing that can be done, so what we need to do is "fix government" or "establish universal basic income." Yeah, man. Let's just "alter gravity." This is not a "rational" response to theft and graft on an unprecedented scale. No, I think we should just follow the law. And where the law is ambiguous, and there are clearly questions, we should reckon it according to the precedents that exist. It's so brazen that I think people hardly know how to categorize it. And I understand why you'd want to slight yourself with it, certainly. But I do have opinions about that.
(CW)TB out.
