"Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."
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@tante There are always those who believe they can outsmart everyone else and get rich overnight. Whether through AI, crypto, lottery, poker, horse racing bets, pyramid schemes, or building a perpetual motion machine in their shed.
What these all have in common: wasting fortunes, not just their own but their loved ones, on something that was doomed from the start.
A mix of addiction, arrogance, and a complete disconnect from reality.
@tante archive link: https://archive.ph/tkqy6
I've been watching some of the people I know slip deeper into this delusion. Lucky for us, none of us are rich enough to be doing what the people in the article are doing.
@tante It's a good article... but doesn't it feel like the same article that would have been written during the dot com boom / internet bubble? It seems mainly about work - life balance or lack of it...
Sadly paywalled.
@juergen_hubert @tante it did show as "Subscribers Only" for me, but then rendered fine in Reader View.
@juergen_hubert not for me, try a private mode browser or so?
@tante @juergen_hubert Unfortunately also paywalled for me, and doesn't render in reader mode, incognito or both.
And the Internet Archive looks like it's getting hammered: 429 Too Many Requests when trying to pull an archived copy.
Here is an alternative link that worked for me:
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
> They’ve tried everything else, these men, from writing screenplays to investing in crypto. It’s AI or bust. Their partners, meanwhile, have quietly taken on a second job: emotional support. Chief Existential Officer, uncompensated. No one asked us if we wanted the gig.
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"I should also say I didn’t bother speaking to any of the actual husbands for this story. I’m sick of hearing from the men of AI. So many of us are. They have podcasts and Senate hearings and magazine profiles and probably a group chat with the president. They’ve been talked to—and I can’t stress this enough—enough."
