Some people reading this blog, or who have ever talked to me about Generative AI, may think that I am somewhat of a doomer on the tech, but that’s not quite true. I recognise the potential of the technology and can see its utility, but I thoroughly dislike how it is being hyped and sold to us by the tech oligarchy, and I don’t believe that the current prevailing model of huge data centres is viable or desirable.
Over the holidays, a friend sent me this article which does a pretty good job of explaining something else I dislike about the current (mis)use of the tech to produce content slop, it just kind of gives me the ick.