These words are EXACTLY, like to the letter, what I think whenever I see the AI douches go on about how LLMs are “inevitable” and we’d better “adapt”.
I can’t think of any world-changing technology in literally all of human history that required people to be begged, cajoled, bribed, and/or forced into using it. Typically such technology, whether it’s the plough, or eyeglasses, or the printing press, or the automobile or whatever had the opposite problem: the early tech was too labour-intensive to make or too costly or whatever to actually be able to get into the hands of everybody who was clamouring to use it.
But AI, the “unstoppable technology” has to be forced on people, often by threat, to the point that revenue from selling it it grossly under the costs of supplying it and people still aren’t really using it, a few douchey nerds aside.
I think that’s very sus.
I just love how absolutely tone deaf these techbro’s sound.
“The adaption rate is sort of slow”
No shit Sherlock. Maybe people hate it?
“When you have a technology so powerful it can make the Godfather but with cats, or write an entire University essay with only 30-35 errors, or…make Saving Private Ryan but with cats, there’s simply nothing that can hold it back.”
You, sir CANNOT sway me by the use of cats as a weapon! If anything Im even 1.Angrier at your product. 2.Mad at the lack of Kitties Godfather.
Have you seen the Gemini ads they put out in some third world countries where cable TV is still prominent?
Feel like germ theory was kinda faught against but not for any good reasons. Just egos getting in the way.
Germ theory, as the name would indicate, was a theory, not a technology. 😉 It is the nature of scientists to fight change, and this is actually a good thing, IMO.
Vaccination one could argue was a technology that qualifies, but much of this was a reaction to how it was forced on people by colonial powers, especially in the face of local variolation traditions that already existed in that space.
So that’s one arguable technology in pretty much the history of world-changing inventions that faced very strong opposition initially until its efficacy was proved. I think I feel secure in saying that Degenerative AI is no vaccination in terms of its impact…
