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It's hard to come up with analogies for AI because it's so goddamn stupid. It's like if asbestos was flammable.
it's like leaded gasoline for internet - it makes people stupid and aggressive, kids are hit the worst by it, fallout will be felt for decades, cleanup might be hard to impossible, and ultimately it's a product of corporate greed. except even leaded gasoline solved some problem
it's also like gambling as in hook model. it's like cocaine in that it has been marketed to managerial class as a status symbol of sorts
Or like the radium craze of the early 20th century (even if radium may have a lot more legitimate use cases than current-day LLM).
One of the products was removal of unwanted hair. You radiated and the hair just fell off! How practical!
To be fair to the radium people, I don't think the correlation between radiation and cancer was established until the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Still one could see hair falling of as a warning sign of sorts.
Someone I know called AI "a non-invasive procedure to lobotomise people" after I mentioned this Pivot to AI, and its stuck with me ever since