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Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
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I saved a lot of time due to ChatGPT. Need to sign up some of my pupils for a competition by uploading their data in a csv-File to some plattform? Just copy and paste their data into chsatgpt and prompt it to create the file. The boss (headmaster) wants some reasoning why I need some paid time for certain projects? Let ChatGPT do the reasoning. Need some exercises for one of my classes that doesn't really come to grips with while-loops? let ChatGPT create those exercises (some smartasses will of course have ChatGPT then solve those exercises). The list goes on...
You are an asshole if you're uploading student data to a mining operation.
Well, I hope the data protection official of my school won't find out. Oh wait, shit. He did find out. It's me and idgaf.
Where do you work?
Yeah, that's a problem, especially in Europe. Im unsure about US, but it's definitely a breach of GDPR.
Yeah, and Wikipedia is one of the most useful sites on the net, but it didn't exactly result in the entire web becoming crowdsourced.
Those pupils will really thank you when they grow up and there isn't enough fresh water because all the data centres are using it up far faster than it can be replenished.
https://utulsa.edu/news/data-centers-draining-resources-in-water-stressed-communities/
The thing about tech bubbles is everyone rushes in full bore, on the hope that they can be the ones whose moonshot goes the distance. However even in the case where the technology achieves all its promise, most of those early attempts will not. Soon enough, we’ll be down to the top few, and only their datacenters will need to exist. Many of these failures will go away
In a rational, non-capitalist world, yes. In our world, all of those data centres will last until they can't find a way to squeeze some sort of profit out of them.
The poem about AI that often gets posted says "What are you trying to avoid? The living [of a life]?"
And yeah, that's what it's for, dodging shit you don't want to do. I gotta produce some useless bullshit that no one's going to read or care about: AI.
I don't even mind AI art for things like LinkedIn posts, blogs like "What is warehouse management?" or "Top 10 finance trends in 2025" - SEO spam that no human will read. No one wants to write it, read it, or care about it- its just a x kb file to tell Google to look here.
One time, I needed to convince my boss's boss that we needed to do something, and he wanted it in writing. Guess who wrote the proposal? And far more eloquently than I could have alone, in the time allowed. It required some good prompts, attentive proofreading, and a few drafts. But in the end, it was quite effective.