Just as importantly: we have to stop amplifying tech bosses’ chosen narratives about their products’ destructive potential, because this helps them raise more money and do more terrible things. Bernie Sanders needs to stop insisting that the US government should own 50% of the money-losingest corporations the world has ever seen and start talking about how they will not get a government bailout when their investment bubble bursts.
What is novelty though? It can be used to shortcut your development time, your documentation time, your presentation preparing time, that’s a shit ton of stuff that developers/office workers do.
I think making false narratives is not how you fight AI, you fight for regulation on Data center water use, noise pollution, then let the cost bankrupt the companies that need to go bankrupt.
Although maybe this is just one of those communities that wants to endlessly circlejerk around an issue.
Maybe the title is clickbaity, but in the article this is addressed, AI has it uses but we shouldn’t repeat the lies the CEOs spew about their products, even the ones that paint AI in a dark picture as this serves as a marketing purpose. Instead we should call out those lies and address the real destructive potential that AI has, like the environmental ones or that is a Ponzi scheme.
No it doesn’t. Matching the quality of human produced output with it arguably takes just as long if not longer. Even the most die-hard advocate of Claude Code admits it’s only as good as a junior programmer. What it is good at is making it seem like it’s doing a lot to ignorant execs because it makes a large output of content quickly, which is the only metric they have ever evaluated (see: programmers being judged on lines of code or number of closed bugs).