a.) There's little interest in interrogating the downsides of generative AI, such as the environmental impact, the data theft impact, the treatment and exploitation of data workers.

That's all the press ever fucking talks about, to the point where you've got people who use the cloud for everything bitching about AI like the rest of their cloud use isn't impacting the environment. Also, analyzing data isn't theft.

b.) There's little interest in considering the extent to which, by incorporating generative AI into our teaching, we end up supporting a handful of companies that are burning billions in a vain attempt to each achieve performance that is a scintilla better than everyone else's.

People need to learn about and use open source AI. There are plenty of very good options.

c.) There's little interest in thinking about what's going to happen when the LLM companies decide that they have plateaued, that there's no more money to burn/spend, and a bunch of them fold—but we've perturbed education to such an extent that our students can no longer function without their AI helpers. ...so AI is going to magically disappear if/when it plateaus and there are still gazillions of customers who want to use it? Some companies will probably go under when the investment cash dries up, but not all of them. AI isn't going to vanish.

Oh, and if all those companies crap out, open source AI is still going to exist. Those models won't magically vanish either.

My credit score is well over 800 and I don't see how I'm exploitable. I haven't paid any CC fees or interest in decades, and have no debt anywhere else. But maybe I'm missing something obvious. Can you explain a bit? (serious question).

So they can add it to enterprise bundles, I'm guessing.

Advertising prescription drugs wasn't permitted until the mid 80's. For comparison, cigarette ads were banned in the early 70s.

Did you just pick a random person to say that to?

...probably aren't going to do their research, and will be willing to buy a shittier version for a higher price.

This camera is a fashion accessory for shallow people.

It's a good way of laying off the people who are good enough at what they do that they can find other jobs.

Found the office building real estate investor. Or the sociopath from upper management.

Is that you, Area Man?

Until it isn't. Surely you don't think it will never be possible.

I take it you're not a developer. Used properly it's a huge time-saver. It does a lot of the grunt work while I do the thinking and planning and reviewing. I've been programming since 1980. After 44 years without it and 1 with it I wouldn't want to go back.

Until it isn't.

Presumably more. MT's user ID is from the 90s.That's when I signed up.

As usual, porn will drive acceptance. Within a couple of years 80% of porn will be AI. (This might turn out to be a wildly conservative estimate)

A whole crop of "influencers" and porn "stars" will soon be out of the business.

There have always been some critics like that, yes, but it's a lot more universal now. It wasn't nearly this bad in the 90s and 00s.