Fuck AI

Go look up the dotcom bubble. Similar deal

There's a lot of conspiracy theories but lets be honest: it's all MBAs doing as they do and stupid human greed.

Here's one theory: the AI hype is a front so the wealthy can secure land deals justified by the need for new data centers and thereby further consolidate resources and power.

I mean whatever the fuck is going on with Palantir is absolutely the textbook definition of nefarious. Evil even.

I think there's more than one. Here are my predictions of the points on the AI spikeball:

1. The obvious fascination with dreaming about replacing their entire workforce with AI, so they don't have to pay anybody.
2. Making the tools to generate bullshit images and video mature enough that bad actors (i.e. themselves) can use them produce endless deepfake political propaganda. This last election cycle we had Trump howling lies about, "They're eating the cats and dogs." Next cycle, they'll be pushing actual videos of it as "proof." Mark my words.
3. Making said tools so widespread and prevalent that any actual evidence presented against big businesses, politicians, billionaires, and other big ticket criminals can automatically be waved away with, "That's just AI."
4. Developing the neural net/pattern recognition part of machine learning to the point that it will be used as a nationwide/worldwide spy network that automatically flags political undesirables (i.e. sane people, or anyone who disagrees with the regime) for harassment or arrest.

It's 2 factors, FOMO and the hope to replace the labor force with software.

Our IT tech support has already been replaced by AI and now they are experimenting with replacing HR live support, estimators, and legal tech writers. The company is selling it to employees as a tool to make us more efficient, but it's pretty obvious that if one person can now do the job of 5 then 4 lose their jobs and the company saves hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's simple math. The one person now doing the job of 4 won't see a dime. The first jobs that will go will be anything related to collating data and setting up work for more experienced workers will start to disappear. Then as the more experienced workers move on and don't pass on the experience, the companies will be forced to face AI rot.

Eventually the workforce will balance and this will become the new normal but for the next 10 years or so a lot of people are going to lose their jobs and the rich will widden the gap.

It's both tbh

Fully automated, infinite, and personalized propaganda plus advertising. Buy our slop and worship the flag or the {oil rich country here} will kill you.

Same old shit with new tech at a bigger scale.

If there are actual nefarious motives for the AI nonsense or whether it was just a bunch of rich CEOs