AI’s business model is starting to look like a snake eating its own tail: scrape human work, replace the humans who make it, flood the web with synthetic sludge, then wonder why there’s less quality data to train on. Silicon Valley calls it disruption. Everyone else might call it burning the furniture to heat the house.

I'm very concerned about this.

But I'm even more concerned that the jobs that AI kills are jobs that no one gets trained to do, and that no one will know how to do them when the computers stop working.

Oh yeah, the AI companies realized this from the start, maybe not that it would happen this quickly, but that it would happen.

This is why they are hyping AI up further now, as they want to squeeze the final drop of blood from the stone.

Even the AI just wants to die.

When AI removes the need for so many jobs and people can't afford purchases and the economy collapses (again), how will the world's governments act? I can't see the US ever introducing universal basic income and the vast majority of countries simply can't afford it. I think AI might be one of those moments where it seemed like a great idea in the zeitgeist, but in retrospect, they just didnt plan for it, because all they wanted to do was just make as much money as possible. The current crop of James Bond baddies at the top of the ladder are happy to see the world burn, because they won't be around to give a shit when it all comes crashing down.

This is pervasive throughout any segments where AI is leveraged. I’ve heard it called a Diamond-shaped market. What used to be a pyramid of entry-level to mid tier to experienced staff no longer has entry level. So it’s just mid tier and experienced staff. There is no one in the pipeline to move up. What happens then? The genie is out of the bottle. The big AI shops could close up now and it would only slow the decline as local models are getting more performant. I’m impressed at what Qwen can do on a MacBook with 32 gig of ram. The question I have is, what’s the solution? I got nothing other than hoping the process of decline drags out longer than I think it will.

Businesses destroying the skills development pipeline by eliminating entry level jobs.

Retail is so polluted with AI scams and deceptive ads that the public is being driven off of any but the most well vetted sites. This is on top of the massive scams problem worldwide.

I guess this is the Easter Island moment for the Epstein civilization. We're just gonna concentrate on building bigger and bigger stone heads, er, datacenters, until we all fucking starve.