No government money was ever involved, no funding ever left anyone’s bank account, no “initiative” ever existed, and OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank have, in my opinion, conspired to mislead the general public about the existence and validity of a project for marketing purposes.
Who would have guessed.
As usual, Ed Zitron is a voice of sanity.
There’s part of me that’s thinking he’s so sure of his analysis, maybe he’s wrong. Especially as he’s a bit of a lone voice. Trouble is, I don’t see how he would be.
That’s the same thought he’s admitted to multiple times. He wonders constantly if he’s wrong, if his analysis is flawed, if there’s secretly some way these companies actually pull all this off and the boosters are right and “”“AI”“” will save us all before the economy collapses. He wonders this constantly, asks for second opinions, reruns the analysis, goes to experts, everything.
And he comes to the same conclusion. Everything’s fucked and everybody sucks, and there’s no way out. He’d love to be wrong. Certainly, his detractors would love him to be wrong too. But nobody ever seems to have a decent counter-argument backed up with real data. So, we’re stuck with his theses until something explodes, and we see the real fallout.