those workers and was never intended to. It's always been about tech lords stealing the world's intellectual property and extracting its value for themselves, while at the same time extracting more and more data via their technology, to be used or sold to others for more targeting and exploitation of those individuals.
It's about replacing workers as much as possible, not helping them.
The only reason so many people already have any access to genAI is that the AI companies are losing money on it, heavily subsidizing its use, in the hope of getting individuals and businesses so dependent on it - so hooked on it - that they'll pay much more to continue to use it when the prices are raised to at least let the AI companies break even. But critics of genAI's terrible business model, critics including Ed Zitron, have pointed out there's no evidence individuals or companies are willing to pay the true cost of AI, and there's no sign those costs will become much lower for the AI companies.
It's a bubble maintained so far by hype and circular financing.
And by AI bros and some venture capitalists continuing to hope that somehow, in the near future, this badly flawed, hallucinating tech will morph into superintelligent AGI, with godlike powers, that will be so grateful to the AI bros and VCs that brought it to life that it will reward them with the much greater power and wealth they're dreaming of, and even immortality.
And in the meantime there's very flawed tech that's basically a fancy autocomplete that isn't conscious and isn't intelligent and only looks as impressive as it does because the AI bros stole the world's intellectual property to increase the odds that this mindless software will give a correct answer often enough to impress people who ignore all the failures.
GenAI is tech to help the elite by making human workers less and less necessary. Silicon Valley isn't dreaming of one-person unicorns, billion-dollar companies with just the owner/CEO and no human employees at all, because they want to help workers.
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