Every single media outlet has been

screaming about this for 3 years.

They've been saying this will take your

job. You must use this. If you don't use

this, you're going to be falling behind.

>> Generative AI is at its heart a con.

>> The word con is a strong word. What do

you call something where from the very

beginning they've sold it in the terms

of magic as this thing that will replace

all jobs, that will cure cancer, as all

of these things. And when you look at

it, it's boring cloud software that's

extremely expensive and unprofitable,

and also unreliable at its core. I don't

think it is sold as honest software. I

think that they overstate both what it

can do, what it will do, and the

underlying financials to the point that

they are misleading the entire world,

and they're actively exploiting the

weaknesses in journalism, in our

economies, and indeed within the

responsible parties with sell-side

analysts, governments, and all over the

shop. This is the largest non-consensual

push of technology in history. ChatGPT,

for example, every single media outlet

has been screaming about this for 3

years. They've been saying this will

take your job. You must use this. If you

don't use this, you're going to be

falling behind. It's a directionless

egregore of capitalism in the hopes that

if it harasses people and scares people

and demonizes labor enough, people will

be forced to use it.