Post #2557756

2026-05-11 06:56 UTC

So you can see how that genie is extremely prone to returning to it's bottle. It only stays out as long as they can keep shoveling an ever increasing amount of real resources into it. And it turns out the resources available are finite

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io 2026-05-12 04:45

Anyway, AI fans keep claiming that AI is like the industrial revolution, and yeah, it is. But somehow, for some reason, people broadly view that as a good thing. But it wasn't. It was this. It's the thing I just described, but for physical goods. And now they're coming after art, and science, and correspondence, and law, and medicine, and bookkeeping, and it is incomprehensible to me that anyone at all would be in favor of this

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@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com 2026-05-11 08:28

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io this is a brilliant thread, thank you!

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@Brokar@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 09:00

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io I wouldn't compare AI with a genie rather than with Pandora's box because you won't get AI back into anything. Not that AI is good or bad but too many companies and investors have pumped so much money into AI that it's about time to think of ROI. AI is no charity even though one of the leading companies has Open in its name. So, imo AI stays as long as the investors don't have their money back and it can take a long time until that happens. And then the earning starts.

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@alter_kaker@hachyderm.io 2026-05-11 14:21

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io how do small language models that can be run locally or self hosted factor into this? Perhaps they represent tools that can still be controlled locally rather than by large investors. Counter arguments: 1. They still need to be trained 2. Hardware prices are rising, hardware capable of running even small models may become out of reach

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