Post #3857448

2026-07-16 11:34 UTC

Regarding AI slop permeating everything... It's incredibly important to know that right now there is a MASSIVE amount of money and effort by corporations, financial institutions, and governments to get people to use it. (There are motivations behind pushing that use that go well beyond just making a buck. AI is a layer of abstraction over information control, it's a method of locking in compute control, etc etc) But that use is still heavily subsidized - from cheap tokens and use subscriptions to local governments subsidizing power and water and taxes for their data centers. That can't last. And nor can its current heavy use. I have no idea how it will look moving forward. So much of AI is propped up artificially on one hand that it will fall if left to its own devices. But on the other hand there is so much money and power behind it that it can last artificially for a long time. Anyhow. Don't give up hope. Every act of resistance increased its cost and therefore its ability to withstand.

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@birdwainer@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 12:01

@tinker@infosec.exchange It's important not to underestimate the psychological factors at play in the corporate AI push. Huge chunks of most organizations, and especially in leadership roles, are completely disconnected from actual work. Your boss probably only has a vague idea of what you actually do and their boss (boss^2) has no idea at all. Most of what they do all day is around managing i.e.: emails, meetings, talking etc. And AI **IS** a transformative technology to them precisely because it transforms something that they don't understand (coding, creating, etc.) into something that they do understand - managing an underling. That's at the root of this disconnect.

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@Marija_@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 13:22

@tinker@infosec.exchange It’s wild how much money is being dumped into forcing proprietary black-box AI on us.

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@RedwoodSec@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 14:34

@tinker@infosec.exchange use the free tiers burn up shareholder money

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@scottytrees@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 15:16

@tinker@infosec.exchange I use Ai but it’s a local model 🤷‍♀️

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@Sorro@woof.tech 2026-07-16 17:21

@tinker@infosec.exchange

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@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 19:04

@tinker@infosec.exchange There is too much money in too few hands, they don't know what to do with it, yet they think they are entittled to more. This is the love of money, and the root of insanity. #AI #Insanity #Money

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@jmax@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 12:26

@tinker@infosec.exchange It collapses when either the whole system does, or when Altman, Elmo, et al find a better grift.

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