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@ZachWeinersmith A2 except for Anthropic and OpenAI which are A12

@ZachWeinersmith Like everyone assuming "AI" means "generative AI".

I thought of saying A2, but I'm going A1. It's closer to the truth.

What the AI companies are doing is a scam. They don't care what the tech is good for, only what they can make people think it's good for. They are pushing the tech to be used as an unscoped technology, "the everything machine", to be used as much as possible in all areas, both where it does good and where it does immense harm.

It looks like it's good at a few things (e.g. bug hunting) but that's incidental. Their effort goes into making generative AI appear to be good at things it is not.

@ZachWeinersmith A2. Especially insofar as AI actually has a meaning (to me and the rest of the olds) beyond just LLMs & their image and video analogues.