I’m skeptical about OpenAI in general, because while I think AI is so powerful that aspects of it will legitimately change the world, I also think it has been overhyped more than just about anything I’ve seen in my three decades of writing about technology. Sam Altman strikes me as being a drinker of his own Kool-Aid, but it’s also his job to make everyone in the world think that AI is inevitable and amazing and that his company is the unassailable leader while it’s bleeding cash.

– Jason Snell: Sam and Jony and skepticism

This paragraph from Jason Snell perfectly encapsulates my feeling about OpenAI, and so many other ”AI Companies”.

[LLMs are] not search engines, and it doesn’t matter how much Google tries to force AI into its search, it’s not going to deliver what we need. LLMs are NOT answer machines. They’re guessing machines. And any guess has the potential to be wrong.

– AI in search is a trap: it’ll ruin trust

Spot on!

“[T]he internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account.”

The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.