I am not sure where you experienced the 90s or at what age, but your experience is the opposite of mine.

I agree with a lot of that person wrote. I'm a healthy white guy born in 1970 into a very supportive family in a middle-class town in Canada. I basically won the lottery.

I was a kid in the 1970s, a teenager through the 80's and turned 20 in 1990. I had everything I needed and most things I wanted (eventually). High school was easy and actually fun. University was cheap (compared to now) and I had a blast. Graduating with a degree in comp. sci. in 1995 was bonkers. Opportunities were everywhere.

There have been some ups and downs, but I really don't think I would have wanted to be born any other time or place.

They mention being a teenager then, so a lot of their feelings might come down to "it was fun being a teenager" sprinkled with some effects of late stage capitalism.

i have found flagging and ignoring is better than complaining... the bots dislike those that point our the uselessness of llm.

Who is "us"?

Please don't leave us hanging; what makes you immune?

they are useful to those that enjoy wasting time.

Oh yeah? What value have they generated? How is it valuable to rehash existing data in a non-deterministic stream of nonsense?

Its not rehashing, its recombining and mixing any concept ever in minutes. If you cant find value in that you're not being creative enough

We use local models in data processing pipelines. Being able to do compute with language has plenty of use cases

I used Grok heavily to generate a 5min marketing video that got MP's to back my project.

So... go ahead. Try and claim Im lying. I pity you - I'm not lying.

Do I care about whether xAI/Grok survives as a going concern? Absolutely not. Did it generate value for me? Absolutely yes.

insider influence backed up by deniable narative is hardly a new idea(called a "fix"), though conflating that with AI having "value" is quite a stretch. AI is just another pivot point or prop, hookers, drugs, cash, blackmail, favors, etc will still,

trump, AI glossy slop.

so dear user, how does a non-deterministic black box of bullshit enhance cognition?

Just a simple test for people who believe this:

Step 1) read the article

Step 2) have a frontier AI model summarize the article

Step 3) find any 'bullshit' that it comes up with

Step 4) do it 5 more times in a row because obviously the non-determinism will make it say something different each time and it should bs you at least once since it's simply a bs machine anyways

Step 5) report your findings

It's so great here it's like a third world shit hole.

the hype machine knows no bounds. it should be illegal to publish such farcical claims when they are intended to manipulate markets...