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I'm tired of stupid people treating me like I'm an idiot

Why are the biggest backers of generative AI so incredibly stupid? And why do they think we're as dense as they are?

The problem with AI isn’t that it won’t report the news accurately, but rather that it can’t because it doesn’t actually understand anything — not even the words that it regurgitates after burning the equivalent of a small Pacific island’s annual energy consumption on a single prompt. The kind of brain-dead work that I had no desire to do (and, indeed, hadn’t done previously until the content teams were restructured), and it was the biggest load of crap I’ve ever encountered, to the point where — despite instructed to use said AI tool to save time — I just went rogue and wrote everything myself. You mean the same agents that are built on the same hallucination-prone foundations, and that invent entire baseball teams in the middle of the Gulf of America, and that arguably cost as much as a human being (and possibly more), although work slower and can’t do multi-step tasks with any reliability?

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