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Ed Zitron announced an insider story that might blow up the AI grift
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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Wow, yeah that seems like something that's totally plausible, in fact I wouldn't be surprised at all if you were right. The kind of people involved with all of this tech are not the most genuine bunch of people.
Exactly. My bet is on "there's a big unsolvable problem and they all know it's going to tank the industry growth rate and they never informed anyone, hoping they could solve it in time" in some form. It's just so on-par with how these companies operate for the most part.
And I say that as a proponent of ML (not "AI" aka "LLMs with skills")
I suppose that's what all those BS AI news stories were about, and like moltbook and all that other junk. Just trying to keep it alive for longer to fix it or drum up more money or get the money out of the country idk. Sheesh.
Who knows at this point? There is no shortage of grifters or "true believers" so it's hard to say. But having worked with several different LLMs across a variety of use cases, I can say for sure that none of them are being completely honest about their shortcomings. Each model has strengths and weaknesses, all of them have unresolved issues, and all of that stuff is being swept under the rug, with the products being touted as one-size-fits-all problem solvers.
Because it's profit driven, not research driven. The people holding the reigns really don't care about outcomes for the people using the products, only whether they can get paid for it.