Everyone has their knives out for Ed Zitron because he's badly wrong about basic details of how AI works, whether inference can ever be profitable (the success of open models shows it can be, because ppl are literally paying their own costs to use them for inference), and the corpo bond markets.

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What's funny about Ben is that he doesn't understand basically anything. Even the circular financing complaint is like the seed of a good argument that has been misunderstood to the point of it being wrong.

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there are a lot of people not posting AI assisted work on social media because of people like you, and I am very much not confident you are capable of evaluating AI-assisted work objectively.

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The world will not magically go back to how it was when you were younger. Refusal to accept this is the foundation of reactionary thinking. This applies just as much to AI existing as it does having to be aware trans people exist.

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Jon Stewart had Often-Wrong Ed Zitron on The Weekly Show, and at the end Jon marvels at Ed rattling off numbers from memory. Folks, that's Ed's hustle. Gish gallop real numbers while stripping out context so nobody notices his conclusions are upside down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sDzlv-VI2U

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