It’s legitimately no different than cryptocurrency and NFTs, but this is the techbro scam that finally stuck after flinging shit against the wall over and over.

The training data sources are built destructively, without any consent from the artists, writers, programmers, anyone whose data is pulled into these models. The information these things spit out usually has so many inaccuracies - search engines are fucked, software is built without understanding a damn thing it actually does, poor translations of documentation are made public, the list goes on.

On top of that, data centers are one of the biggest environmental nightmares we’ve ever seen. Why are we pushing these so hard in the middle of a goddamn climate crisis?

There’s genuinely not a single thing it actually does well, and the only reason it genuinely took off is because investors in the same 5 companies are patting each other on the back.

It’s also worth mentioning how chatbots built off this stuff are designed to always be extraordinarily friendly and confirming to the user. It’s such a massive factor contributing to AI psychosis, to the point that there people who legitimately believe these lines of code are sentient and conscious. Meanwhile we’ve already seen just how easily these closed source models can be tweaked to spit out pure propaganda, making them an extremely valuable political tool - it’s no wonder fascists love this shit so much.