Other Editors Who Agree "Hey Hi" (AI) is Just Hype But Won't Say So Publicly as It Might Upset Key Sponsors
So-called "Hey Hi" (AI) gimmicks - namely LLMs and others (it's a misnomer of course!) - aren't exciting, except to shareholders who want to believe it's anything but money down the drain and a major legal liability (settling with everyone affected is very expensive, definitely not sustainable). They try to profit by passing ownership of original works and sometimes pay for it. But the economics fail; the energy bills are way too high and (pre-)settlements are expensive, too.
Editors who are tech-proficient typically know this. But they don't want to blurt this out, i.e. to say out loud what their sponsors don't want said. In fact, they sometimes get paid to spew out the "Hey Hi" (AI) nonsense for their sponsors. In other words, they participate in the "Ponzi scheme" which "Hey Hi" (AI) has become.
As one editor put it in a conversation with me earlier this month, "I don't know what to make of it until it happens. all CEOs say they want their products to be "profoundly" good / state of the art..."
Well, and "AI" (stock goes up based on nothing but buzz)... even if that has nothing to do with Machine Learning and/or it does not do anything profoundly useful. So "yeah," he told me "as you've probably seen we're not fans of AI hype" (but would run sponsored pieces for it).
"Right," I replied, and "it's good karma not to play along..."
He said "the latest being that OpenAI's models were asked to perform a task without fail, by all means necessary, so it took steps to copy itself just in case. it's just hype. you told the model to do something it did it. what next - people upset that rm deletes files??!?!?"
To give an example, "i told my computer to delete my documents and it actually did it, [and] i told a model to do something and it did it - it's actually newsworthy I guess that it understood the task" (but this isn't new; voice dictation can be found or be traced back to the 90s, e.g. from IBM, and it already had automation/actions associated with it).
This is just "old tech recycled," I told him, as ""shout-hacking" is old FUD [...] some program will "speak" to your "AI" [...] or someone behind your shoulder [...] or TV in the background..."
So basically, why is the media playing along with every lie of Scam Altman and casually, nonchalantly pretends old stuff is exciting? Well, follow the money. Some media would gladly participate in a scam to make money.
It's so sad to see many articles that say "AI". They're not journalism, they're part of mass gaslighting, with the end goal of policy-shaping and market-rigging. █