AI crap

A critical take on the AI/ML hype cycle arguing that the technology, while here to stay, will make the world worse rather than better. The author predicts AI's lasting impact will be: displacing skilled creative workers, eliminating customer support jobs, enabling more convincing spam and phishing, flooding media with low-quality AI-generated content, and scaling propaganda and astroturfing. The author dismisses AGI fears as overblown, arguing the real danger is capitalism using AI to cut costs and concentrate wealth, while the sci-fi singularity narrative is deliberately maintained to lobby lawmakers and build regulatory moats. Real harms are already occurring through AI in criminal justice, facial recognition, and military drone applications, disproportionately harming minorities.