Everybody's Lost Their Minds
4 hours ago
- AI industry hype and anthropomorphic marketing obscure real harms, including IP exploitation and military use.
- Spending most work time on AI has eroded job enjoyment; work feels like a surreal distortion of normalcy.
- Companies use 'ethics aside' to ignore AI's role in generating CSAM and enabling military targeting, which user funds through usage.
- Corporate focus on AI tokens and chatbots often neglects ROI and basic security hygiene.
- AI-assisted vulnerability research, like projects from Anthropic and OpenAI, is costly and ineffective; patching remains the bottleneck.
- Better investment would be basic defenses: asset inventories, automated updates, and attack surface enumeration.
- AI companies call for self-regulation theatrically while externalizing environmental damage through fossil-fueled data centers.
- AI dulls skills; human-in-the-loop is often a rubber stamp, and complex systems become impossible to debug as understanding fades.
- The author refuses to 'set ethics aside' and participate in self-diminishment, urging a step back from the AI race.
- Noted: Claude (an AI) is not conscious, and the piece uses footnotes to mock devaluing of em-dashes or similar stylistic complaints.