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    jaschop@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months ago

    "The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectory

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    "The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectory

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    A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated on the things [AI] can't do." I am not going to focus too hard on this blog, in
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      I always tune into Casey Newton and Kevin Roose’s podcast to get my latest fix of AI hype, now that they’ve moved on from crypto hype and multiverse hype. Can’t wait to see what the next hype cycle will bring!

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        multiverse hype

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          Autocorrect-ism for “metaverse”, perhaps?

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            Yeah, it was a brain fart.

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      That was a good one. Also, was he the first to break the coreweave situation? Not a bad journalistic get if that’s the case.

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        he was the most prominent voice saying “hey wait this is shit”

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      This puts exactly into words what I’ve been thinking about AI. So much “someone said it would be great”, so little evidence.

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      Roose doesn’t have to make actual arguments – he makes statements, finds one example of something that confirms his biases, and then moves on

      All too common an approach.

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