It’s way more insidious. “AI” is very much LLMs, or Large language Models. The one thing they excel at is ingesting large amounts of text and summarizing, or looking for key points, as directed, and sometimes with non-exact directions.

Large amounts of text, like your browsing history, your personal cloud-stored files, your chats and messages your email. Your taxes. Your bank records. Your not-yet filed patents. Your medical research. Your political donations. Your protest plans. Your sources for the journalism you are doing.

At scale, society-wide. Zoom back and predict the markets overall sentiment. Zoom in down to a single “undesirable”.

All that “it’ll do human creative jobs you have to pay so much for, and if you reduce headcount you’ll get a nice bonus” is for all the short-thinking middle management and vapid C-levels to get suckered by the Mechanical Turk show into think they’ll get a bonus this quarter by putting all their sensitive information on someone else’s computer.

And once their IT staff is minimized and hardware is out of reach, you have achieved vendor lock-in.

And it’s absolutely incredible how literally everyone seems to have fallen for this shiny turd.

I mean cmon, “Palantir”? They were literally created for this purpose.

I think thatsa great description of Zitron. His editorial style initially turned me off but he is thorough and shows his sources for the factual sides of his arguments.