> The A in AGI stands for Ads! It's all ads!! Ads that you can't even block because they are BAKED into the streamed probabilistic word selector purposefully skewed to output the highest bidder's marketing copy. Ossama Chaib, "The A in AGI stands for Ads" This is another huge reason I refuse to "build skills" around LLMs. The models everyone points to as being worthwhile are either not public or prohibitively expensive to run locally, so incorporating them into my workflow means I'd be making my core thought processes very vulnerable to enshittification. #ai #agi #llms #capitalism #enshittification

It's almost beautiful how consistently AI hype makes people we already knew to be clowns, openly act like clowns. Just recently we have Casey Newton misleading people about his Mastodon instance, which he used AI to set up, and then getting mad when he got called out about it; and now there's Moxie Marlinspike making "end-to-end encrypted AI". Sure bro