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The current AI bubble started around february of last year when every C-level of every major company entered into a mass hysteria about being left behind if they didn't integrate LLMs into their service. This is different from the zeitgeist that came before it.

This article is severely misleading. AI is a buzzword -- but mostly for chatbots. Bots. You can prove this easily: observe that chatbots such as ChatGPT type much faster than a human possibly could.

Much of the training and validation of AI requires outsourcing. Companies which just mindlessly slap an LLM into their product somewhere aren't usually outsourcing.

Don't be misled. When your CEO brings up integrating AI into your product, s/he isn't secretly talking about outsourcing.

Let's all start using AOL and MSN messenger

I don't know how I got that so backward when I wrote that. Thanks for correcting me.

This. On average it's the same number of deaths, but there's also the 80% chance to avoid the guilt of killing anyone. The guilt of killing 5 people is presumably not 5 times worse than the guilt of killing 1 person.

Controlled opposition can criticize so long as it's ineffective

Goebbels is not the first person to say this. An earlier quote comes from Upton Sinclair in 1918:

Not merely was my own mail opened, but the mail of all my relatives and friends—people residing in places as far apart as California and Florida. I recall the bland smile of a government official to whom I complained about this matter: ‘If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.’

Let's be clear: the right to privacy is not a fascist dogma.

I don't know what this means exactly but I like it anyway.

Your two column approach, while more descriptive, somehow seems to lack explanatory power to me. I don't think it would clear up confusion in most cases (but that's just my intuition). I wrote the text that's implied, which your explanation doesn't have.

I suppose I didn't explain what the implied image is, but the meme format is well known at this point -- basically anyone can infer the missing images, which are generally the same from meme to meme, but the missing text is the hard part to infer.

Anyway, cheers. I think my pedantry ends here.

granted, but the source material says "with text," not "with text and image," even though it's technically the latter, so I pattern-matched as best I could.