NaibofTabr
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312·17 hours ago- The cost of operating these machine learning systems is too high, and the benefit too low:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemmagreen/2026/07/02/ai-costs-more-than-the-people-it-replaced/
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/ai-token-human-salaries-automation-spending-tech-execs/
- The most productive thing the current generation of machine learning systems has done is fill the Internet with garbage:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1971683/ai-is-filling-up-the-internet-with-garbage-spam-sites.html
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/over-50-percent-internet-ai-slop
https://mashable.com/article/ai-generated-internet-era-already-here
- LLMs are real, AI is fake.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake
The current trends in software development are being driven primarily by the interests of venture capitalists who are trying to escape the debts they acquired buying into Web 3.0 (remember Web 3.0?), the Metaverse/VR, and cryptocurrency. They’re looking for the next big get-rich-quick option, and manipulating the market to try and force it to happen. The people making decisions about which projects get funded literally do not care if the end product is useful or destructive or whatever, as long as it looks convincing enough to get other people to buy it. This is why there’s been so much recent hype about “AI” “escaping” its test environments and hacking other companies &etc. It makes the product sound more capable than it is in reality. It’s also why the Trump administration is all-in on “AI” development and actively threatening people who object - because Trump loves a good scam that he can make money off of, and he loves to respond with violence or threats of violence when people get in his way.
The current generation of machine learning models requires vast amounts of input data to achieve useful outcomes. The entire content of the public Internet has already been scraped and ingested. There is no more training data to feed in. The current systems will gain marginal improvements in efficiency and in focusing the models to perform better at certain tasks, but that will be it. They will not magically become capable of learning new tasks for which there is not millions of data points for training. The training is done, refining is in progress, but there will not be any major leaps in capability. There certainly won’t be a general artificial intelligence.
Maybe the next generation of machine learning will produce software that can teach itself without an Internet’s worth of input data. That will happen after the current market implodes, and another generation or two of research and development is completed.
Perhaps there is some value in the current generation as you say. Whatever the benefit of it might be, the cost is far too high. It is not and never will be worth the damage being done to the Internet, the economy, human society, and the environment we all live in.
And I haven’t even gotten into generative models being used to create child exploitation material, run massive scam operations, produce massive amounts of propaganda, or enable the authoritarian surveillance state. This stuff is trash, the people in charge of the development are trash, the people peddling it are trash, the people funding it are trash, and the people that support it are trash.
Get correct.
15·1 day agoMinimalist architecture
Yeah, I’ve heard evangelicals make the same type of arguments about “faith”.
I agree with Shelley’s description of hope and despair as the torturers of the living:
[…] Hope and despair,
The torturers, slept; no mortal pain or fear 640
Marred his repose; the influxes of sense,
And his own being unalloyed by pain,
Yet feebler and more feeble, calmly fed
The stream of thought, till he lay breathing there
At peace, and faintly smiling […]Hope and despair are two sides of the same coin. Both are illusions, or delusions. We don’t hope for the future to be better, we plan to make it better. Hope is ephemeral, and as useful as prayer for actually getting anything worthwhile done.
Without hope, we’d give up.
Why would you give up?
Because you didn’t get what you hoped for? That’s childish. Try again, or admit to yourself that the goal isn’t that important to you.
Because getting what you wanted turned out to be more difficult than you hoped? Again, childish. Reassess whether your goal is worth the effort, then keep going or do something else.
Because you despair that you won’t get what you wanted? You have defeated yourself before you’ve even begun. Perhaps the world is better off with you doing nothing anyway.Chasing hope is like chasing fairy lights in a swamp - a good way to wind up lost and drowning. Hoping shifts the burden of improving your circumstances off of yourself and onto the world around you, and distracts you from doing something practical. The only reason that it’s not generally considered superstitious is that it’s so common, and yet superstition it is. Hope belongs in the same bin with your fears of black cats, spilled salt, and the number 13.
Don’t hope. Plan, then execute, then deal with the consequences, then plan again.
Don’t hope, don’t despair. Get started.
Aha, so
hope === delusion∴ giving yourself hope === self-delusion
Clearly.
Believe it or not, there are sick people in hospitals.
Well, at least I’m not alone.
Yeah, that’s not how this works. Everyone is welcome to participate.
It’s not an analogy, it’s a philosophy.
A doctor must go where the sick people are.
Sell them as scrap metal? Or are you actually finding buyers for individual cables?
9·7 days agoMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
I see a red AI and want to paint it black…
That’s how you know it’s evil.
What do we wish for every year, Pinky?
It is common behavior for a lot of consumer IoT devices. If it goes on your network and you don’t control the software, you should consider it compromised. Even if the manufacturer isn’t doing outright malicious stuff, it likely isn’t secured very well (they never are) so there’s every chance that someone else could find it and use it as a platform for malicious activity.
12·11 days agoYou’re supposed to add salt when you cook them, it helps bring out the flavor.
Older.