If you're confused about how the hell AI is going to make the kind of money needed to turn a profit, I'll illustrate

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18. I've seen too many articles on problems with AI coding including security risks that aren't caught to be

impressed by that.

It's very flawed technology that hasn't been widely adopted by business because of those flaws.

The con artists behind the AI hype are finally admitting it will always be fallible.

What it's best at is fraud - allowing people to pretend to have knowledge and skills they don't have.

It's been most impressive to students too ignorant to catch the mistakes, and students using AI to cheat remain a large fraction of users.

It's dumbing those students down, though. Dumbing down all users, but the damage is most obvious with students.

It's also doing psychological damage to a lot of users.

It's harming the natural environment.

It's harming the information ecosystem, flooding it with AI slop and disinformation and deepfakes.

And it's controlled by some of the greediest, most unethical people on the planet, some of whom have insane, cultlike ideas about their tech god.

The AI companies should be sued out of existence, and those responsible for the IP theft to train the LLMs and the con job that followed the theft, from the initial lies to the current circular financing, should be prosecuted. Long sentences would be appropriate considering the harm they've already done.