the current wave of artificial intelligence bullshit is crashing all around. look at the big wave. oooh. ahhh. crash. boom.
generative artificial intelligence, they’re calling it. language models, they’re saying it has.
bullshit.
from a linguistic perspective, it’s not even remotely generative. it’s derivative is what it is. without the humans imagining, creating and generating, it wouldn’t have any content to derive. some people call it stealing. i know i do. of course, i’m not a person, so what the fuck do i know? my cat has more people than i do.
what happens in ten years when the creative blood and imaginative spirit have been sucked out of humanity?
pretty simple, really.
civilization collapses.
oh and don’t be one of those idiots who says that can’t happen. read a fucking history book, you moron. it’s happened to every civilization in history. every. single. one. western civilization itself has collapsed half a dozen times. twice, spectacularly. if you can call pre-historic greece western civilization (i can), then the first dark ages came around 1200 bce. the second one came around the time of the fall of the roman empire, around 500 ce.
it looks like microshaft may have introduced the third one, day before yesterday, at their build conference. co-pilot, my ass. generative, my left foot. intelligent, my arse.
can’t wait to see what happens when no one can build roads, construct houses, hunt or gather food.
this is going to be a hilarious spectacle to watch. have you got any popcorn, dear? i’ll bring the diet coke.