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The Generative AI Con


It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell

The next one is, but it's used to cite how sites like 404 Media and The Verge are "actively exploring the Fediverse to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement," which is plagiarised ad-verbatim from the Digiday article.After that, the next three citations are posts from Hackernews, a web forum started by yCombinator(). The tech industry — and part of our economy — is accelerating at speed into a brick wall, driven by people like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Marc Benioff, and Larry Ellison, all men that are incentivized to have you value their companies based on something other than what their businesses actually sell. The fact that Sam Altman can ship such mediocre software and get more coverage and attention than every meaningful scientific breakthrough of the last five years combined is a sign that our society is sick, our media is broken, and that the tech industry thinks we're all fucking morons.

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