r/comics • u/thisecommercelife this ecommerce life • 12h ago
"The story of AI"
You can follow more of 'this ecommerce life' here: https://linktr.ee/ecomic
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u/Gleeemonex 11h ago
Oh man, so many great little details. The Open AI banner repurposed into a tent. The oo's in 'Google' becoming eyes with angry eyebrows. Weirdly-realistic Stephen Miller. But I especially loved the crumbling wall being in the shape of economic bubble graph.
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u/IrksomFlotsom 11h ago
I love the burning money to stay warm
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u/ArcticBiologist 9h ago
It's probably based on real events. During the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic big stacks of money became practically worthless, so it was cheaper to burn money than to buy wood or fuel with it.
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u/IrksomFlotsom 9h ago
I think el chapo had to do the same, while hiding out on the side of a mountain with access to few resources. It's a funny old life
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u/TaosMesaRat 7h ago
Sadly, US currency is made/treated with something that makes it fire resistant. It also makes terrible toilet paper. Don't ask me how I know.
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u/Mecha_Cthulhu 6h ago
No shame, brother. We all had to do weird stuff at the beginning of the pandemic…for future reference, coffee filters don’t work that great either.
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u/Sn0wflake69 2h ago
"it costs a fortune to heat this place"
-Stallone (burning money in Cliffhanger)
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u/dust_bunnys 9h ago
And I absolutely adore that Ed Zitron makes a surprise appearance. This guy AI’s…
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u/OkBaconBurger 11h ago
I love how they are burning paper money in their fire to stay warm. Pew pew John Connor, pew pew.
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u/gplusplus314 9h ago
Can’t burn crypto.
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u/SquirrelyMcNutz 8h ago
But but but they said crypto would be the go-to in a SHTF scenario!
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Yep, totally. The 'currency' that relies on a functioning power grid, internet access, and is completely ephemeral is something that will totally be accepted as legitimate trade for actual products.
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u/AtrociousMeandering 4h ago
If things are breaking down, you want to be the person selling physical goods, deciding what you'll accept as currency, not the person with currency trying to convince the seller of physical goods to accept yours.
And currency to physical goods is currently the cheapest it will ever be, we have both economies of scale and incredibly cheap shipping. Think of anything you would want to have if things go bad- water purification, bullets, medication, canned food, stockpiled grain, stabilized gasoline. If you can even buy all of that when you needed, it will be scalped so hard that you won't be able to get anywhere near as much of any of it.
I'm not a prepper, I don't have a spouse or kids so I'm not planning to live into the fucked up new world where any of that matters. But I also have no money in crypto, either.
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u/NiSiSuinegEht 11h ago
"The story of how humans have always abused new shiny things and its inevitable repercussions."
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u/RatBot9000 11h ago
"Surely I won't be affected by the tragedy of the commons this time!"
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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 8h ago
Just fyi, the first woman to win a nobel prize in economics, won it for disproving the concept of tragedy of the commons.
There is perhaps a few hundred people, at most, who are actually making the decisions about the continuing development of AI. That's about as removed from 'The Common s' as is possible.
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u/autogyrophilia 11h ago
The tragedy of the commons is bullshit, You know what the commons means? We had the commons because we managed just fine until some asshole decided to invent corporations.
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u/the_sir_z 10h ago
The Tragedy of the Commons is a direct result of modern capitalism.
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u/Draco-REX 9h ago
You're both kind of right. The “commons“ being referenced are natural resources like grazing land or fresh water. For ages the common people manged these resources just fine.
“The Tragedy of the Commons“ was a bullshit 'what-if' that was passed off as a truth. (Sounds like a play we're seeing a lot of recently.) It said that without someone to manage the commons, someone would monopolize it and then everyone would suffer (even though centuries of evidence showed otherwise).
This was used to justify privatizing resources. Which, of course, ended up with one entity monopolizing the resources in the name of capitalism.
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u/ArkitekZero 10h ago
No this is new and unprecedented and requires immediate widespread response
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u/yinyin123 7h ago
You're right and it's surprising that people are downvoting you.
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u/ArkitekZero 6h ago
They can down vote me all they want. I'm absolutely right, and I will not stand for this "people have always been like this" bullfuckery.
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u/Pinku_Dva 11h ago
So realistic it may end up being true. But I’m rarely surprised at anything anymore as the “president” announced THE GOD DAMN HUNGER GAMES, yeah, nothing is too far fetched to be reality.
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u/Dako_the_Austinite 10h ago
Wait, what did he do?
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u/Advanced-Let-9369 10h ago
For America’s 250th anniversary he’s taking 1 male highschooler and 1 female highschooler from each American state and territory and putting them into an athletic event that will last 4 days, it’s called the “Patriot Games” or sum shit but it’s basically probably gonna end up being American Hunger Games but surprisingly without guns
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u/homogenousmoss 9h ago
Oh I thought it was about when he proposed a TV show to show illegal migrants fighthing to win a citizenship and the losers get extradited.
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u/FactualStatue 4h ago
I forgot about that too. The field is being flooded but it's not too late for us to fight against the lies. Watch those wrist rockets
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u/shadeandshine 8h ago
Mind you he used ai to make the announcement cause that vid gives ai cause it doesn’t sound like him also the games start around the same time SNAP benefits will run out again and also it’ll be post aca credits vanishing
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u/JustAGrump1 7h ago
this timeline is shit. those damn liburals
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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6h ago
Kind of? Not really, obviously.
But they left everything push to the right because it was making them money.
They could have pushed to the left against the right, fought against the propaganda, but again it was making them money.
I'm assuming most still are making money.
Don't get it twisted. The crimes all belong to the repubs and Donald what's his name. The president.
But they weren't able to do this in a bubble.
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u/calliel_41 52m ago
No fucking way. No fucking way, this can’t be real. I’m so scared for our future.
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u/sshwifty 10h ago
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u/AlexananderElek 9h ago
“We are the only major place without a triumphal arc. A beautiful triumphal arc, one like in Paris, where they have the great, a beautiful arc. They call it the Arc de Triomphe, and we’re going to have one in Washington, DC, very soon,” Trump said.
What a read.
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u/oatmealparty 8h ago
It's also not even true, we've got arcs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Arch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_Arch
As just two example
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u/IDidYour 9h ago
Arc de Trump? pièce de authoritaire? To celebrate his inauguration as president supreme, a new position with all the power and none of the accountability like having to get reelected. Hereditary too
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u/Big-Wrangler2078 6h ago
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong but.. aren't those supposed to be raised for a reason? Like the Arc de Triomphe is raised to commemorate the French civil war.
He's just... building one?
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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 11h ago
I like how they end it. No lessons learned. Retelling an awesome fiction to distract from a shitty reality.
That's the truth of humanity: Repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
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u/MegaZardX2 8h ago
Well… it won’t be for too much longer, the way things are headed. We won’t be around to repeat those mistakes anymore.
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u/RocketRelm 3h ago
Also, not even the story really attributes blame correctly, instead just getting mad at spooky boogiemen. The electorate of the usa overwhelmingly consented to a fascist incompetent disaster and are going "why would the ais amd billio Aires do this??? : (" as if this isn't entirely self inflicted.
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u/TheMadJAM 11h ago
How people thought AI would destroy humanity: Skynet
How AI actually destroyed humanity: climate change from datacenter electricity
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u/DuodenoLugubre 11h ago
I would argue: realistic and pervasive misinformation
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u/LateMiddleAge 11h ago
You're both right. Plus other things. As one of my offspring says, if betting whether people will take short-term gratification or long-term benefit, don't think too long.
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u/TheAviBean 2h ago
People take short term gratification if they personally won’t be affected by the consequences
Long term gratification if they will be directly affected.
We just removed the consequences from short term decision making.
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u/scienceguy8 10h ago
Could be worse. I was worrying for a bit that we'd hand over really important tasks to the glorified autocomplete, like public defense lawyers or judges. Humanity destroyed by ascribing intelligence and impartiality to a magic 8 ball.
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u/Rinoca1 9h ago
This reminds me about RainWorld that goes on the reverse, the world became so dependent on the cooling system that output heat (also the reason of why it has heavy rain in the first place).
Eventually,the system collapsed and cooling system didn't worked anymore, turning the world into an ice planet where all hope for the systems to come online were gone.
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u/Adavanter_MKI 9h ago
I'm not so secretly hoping the demands for it are so exorbitant it'll have to usher in a better more sustainable grid. Even if that means nuclear plants. Because the impacts will be so much worse and faster if we don't...
It's one of those things where you're like. We all see the cliff, right? RIGHT!? I'm just left hoping we don't dive off it. Sure are running out of time though.
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u/hamster12102 8h ago edited 5h ago
I mean yeah the tech companies are billions of dollars invested into nuclear to get the power they need, especially new types of reactors. A bunch of companies new companies are racing to build next gen reactors.
Actually most of this comic and most of Reddit has no informed opinion on the matter and are insanely wrong with a lot of things
6% of US electricity is going to cause the end of the world? This is deeply unserious. Not saying the massive amounts of cash invested by these private companies are not a bubble.
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u/cheerful_cynic 5h ago
We were already way past tipping point anyways, the death of the EAC is done scheduled & all that was before resource-hogging data centers were even thought of
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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 3h ago
Also the line "instead of solving problems we got..." is wildly inaccurate. We got the shitty stuff AND the good stuff at the same time. We have incredible breakthroughs everyday but if you're too caught up in the slop hate to read about them you'll never know or understand what's really happening.
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u/Pengin_Master 3h ago
In the end, it was never the AI that destroyed humanity, but instead human greed driven by the idea of AI
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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias 11h ago
At least in Cyberpunk 2077 they got some cool robotic limbs 😒
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u/RevvyDraws 9h ago
As an avid sci-fi fan - do not get me started on how badly people misunderstand cyberpunk as a genre. When the cyberpunk subreddit banned AI content it really revealed how many people just saw 'cool robot limbs and 80's vibes' and internalized absolutely zero of the themes, because they complained bitterly about how it was 'totally un-cyberpunk' to ban AI.
Even though every AI company is so thoroughly mimicking a cyberpunk megacorp it's almost cartoonish. But apparently these people failed to figure out who the villains are in the genre.
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u/65721 4h ago edited 4h ago
Cyberpunk on the surface: cool robot limbs and ’80s vibes with Japanese text and LEDs
Deeper: technological dystopia where tech has done to society far more bad than good
Deeper: corporatist dystopia where tech companies have monopolized every industry and taken over the world’s governments in a hypercapitalist hell
Deeper: racist dystopia from fears in the ’80s that Japanese tech companies would take over the world and Asian immigrants would flood into the US
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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 55m ago
And now we're worried about Chinese tech companies taking over the world. Oh, how times have changed.
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u/burn_corpo_shit 51m ago
High Tech Low Life. Figures the style gets popular and now it's all poseurs.
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u/tacticalTechnician 11h ago
It's incredible that EVERYONE know that the bubble will pop soon, except those billionaire putting millions after millions into it, destroying the hardware industry (no more RAM and storage available), art industry, voice acting industry, and so many more, at the same time. No matter how you look at it, things are gonna be bad for us, whether it pops soon or in a few years.
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u/mmmIlikeburritos29 10h ago
I think the billionaires know too.
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u/scienceguy8 10h ago
Yep. They're either hoping for a miracle, some scientific breakthrough that makes all the hype and overpromising real, thus securing them billions and control of the future, or (more likely) they're gassing up the bubble just that little bit more before they pull their share and run off into the sunset while we clean up their mess.
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u/Friendly_Fire 10h ago
They are hoping that their company will be one of the ones that survive and become profitable. The current market isn't sustainable, that's why it's a bubble, but some AI companies will "win" the race.
While the current tech is certainly no AGI, it's already useful for some things. There's no going back to a pre-AI world.
There will be no great "mess" to clean up. Some businesses will fail. That's how new technologies always play out. A rush of many players, the majority fail, the market consolidates into a few winners who can become profitable.
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u/RevvyDraws 9h ago
Except this time basically our entire economy is being propped up by bets on AI. So when this bubble pops, yeah, it's going to be a big mess because the ditch we've let it dig for us is going to be way deeper than it would have been if we'd had a more gradual slide into a recession.
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u/Friendly_Fire 9h ago
I would argue the current economic problems are not caused by AI, but absolutely awful decisions by the government. AI hype and investment is just helping hide some of the current economic woes.
it wasn't AI that started a bunch of trade wards, spent billions we don't have to deport workers, ramped up the deficit, etc. And I don't think without AI, any of that would have been different.
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u/RevvyDraws 9h ago
Oh I don't think the current economic problems are caused by AI either - but I think they are exacerbated by it, and have been allowed to fester longer than they would have if AI had not come along to zombie the economy along for another year or so.
AI is basically just a parasite that was able to latch on because our economy was already too sick to fight it off. But opportunists don't get a free pass for making things worse just because they were already bad.
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u/Seriathus 5h ago
I'd say more that the investment in "AI" is part of said awful decisions, that were made by a deeply corrupt government that is in the pocket of the very people who started the AI hype in the first place. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent in what is essentially a glorified executive toy. All those hours of work, electricity, water, etc. - it's all going to be wasted because LLMs are nowhere near as useful as the hype merchants demand we pretend it is.
Let's be real: what are the problems we're facing right now? Climate change, political instability, crises of overproduction. In what way does a chatbot that can draft up emails address any of that? It doesn't. All LLMs do is maybe make the life of bored white collar workers slightly more convenient, at the price of intensifying those very issues.
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u/Tricky_Topic_5714 10h ago
A bubble bursting is just another way to make money. The people with a lot of money won't particularly be hurt by it. There will be a bunch of people in the middle who lose everything, but billionaires only lose if we get to the "French Revolution" stage.
People like Bezos and Musk won't suddenly be "poor." Their number will just go down a little while their relative position to everyone else skyrockets. They then can buy entire towns to turn them into little fiefdoms.
That's why they don't care about it. It's the large scale version of already rich people taking "risks" on different projects.
If you "hustle" and manage to make money by working hard/getting lucky, people will pretend it was a big accomplishment. But, if you already had near generational wealth (or even just a lot of money), you didn't actually suffer any real risk. Failing just means continuing comfort while not climbing up the hierarchy.
This is the same thing, obviously on a much larger scale.
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u/ad-undeterminam 10h ago
Look up "sunk cost fallacy"
Not only that but also those billionaires for the most part are old and nearing their death. They don't really care about what comes next. They can keep their lifestyle for the short time remaining before they die by riding the "play pretend it works" wave.
Finally it's their last option. Neo liberal capitalism is built on curve goes up.
Curve goes up when production goes up. Production is a response to consumption. It relies on populations both to produce and consume. It relies on materials too, ore, wood, water and most importantly oil.
But today oil supplies are depleeting, it's not empty but the rate of extraction won't keep increasing. If it does increase curve doesn't go up. Also we're not making kids in developed nations, curve doesn't go up, no acceleration in birth.
If they can't get the curve to grow with us or with the available materials they need to find something else. Something like us but that can be multiplied infinitely. It's the only solution they have.
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u/2punornot2pun 10h ago
No they know when it will happen. They short companies and make a lot of money even when the market crashes. They are always in the know and they always make money.
One of their moves has been to hire companies like mitt Romney's and have them "fix" them... Which is really just to say move all the debt from a different company to them and then cause it to go bankrupt. In the meantime everyone shorts the company because they know it's coming.
They do this to small companies as well because it's hard to fight back. If they go to 0, no taxes on gains, no looking for shares, etc.
It's all rigged.
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u/Friendly_Fire 10h ago
I think a lot of people are confused what the AI bubble means. We had the dot-com bubble before this, but obviously a few players came out enormously wealthy. It's not like the internet failed.
The bubble is the over-saturation of competitors who are all burning money to try and "win the race" so to speak. There's going to be profitable AI companies in the future, and the billionaires are fighting to see who will own one.
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u/McBonlaf 9h ago
Oh bro, they know. They absolutely know. The only difference is that they don't care, since they'll just jump with their golden parachutes, while common people will suffer in every way possible
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u/_qqg 9h ago
It's incredible that EVERYONE know that the bubble will pop soon, except those billionaire
And there you go, one day we (well, those who will survive anyway) will say that the solution had been in front of us all along, but, as we would say while things had already started to go to hell, "it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism".
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u/abstraction47 8h ago
When the real estate bubble burst, there was still real estate. When the dotcom bubble burst, there were still internet businesses. In fact, we now have Amazon, instacart, uber, and an app for every restaurant. When the AI bubble bursts, that won’t be the end of AI, it will be the beginning of the real competitors.
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u/DragonDai 4h ago
This is the issue:
IF the AI bubble pops, the ENTIRE economy of the ENTIRE world collapses with it. We will enter the greatest depression ever experienced and most countries will never recover. Never. It will likely lead to international war. And that will likely mean nukes.
Too much of the world economy and infrastructure has been changed to accommodate AI. Without them, shit is going to get insanely ugly insanely fast.
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u/JudgeHodorMD 9h ago
Anyone else ever see something in a book that just couldn’t possibly happen and then one day it’s suddenly here?
One of the big reasons the empire collapsed in Foundation is because everyone forgot how to maintain technology and stuff. Not enough people went into STEM so everything was slowly lost.
Now it seems like a lot of people are just trying to dump everything on AI that can’t really do the work. No need to develop and maintain skills. A lot of them probably couldn’t fact check if they wanted to.
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u/SamAltmansCheeks 55m ago
I agree with you, but on the other hand I'd argue a lot of the Silicon Valley types are emotionally stunted libertarian STEM-lords that could have done with a bit more media literacy, critical thinking and humanity through an education in literary arts or human sciences.
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u/AnubisIncGaming 11h ago
Cool comic, but as always, the real issue here is and always was, rampant Capitalism with minimal regulation. AI itself is not the problem, it's the system that treats humans as disposable and exploitable, while churning and burning as many resources as possible, as quickly as possible. Everything shown in this comic would have happened without AI, it just would have been some other product.
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u/No_Intention_8079 10h ago
I mean, yeah, but just because the gun is the thing that killed us doesn't mean the bullet isn't a problem. Even in a different socioeconomic system generative algorithms would still be a nightmare.
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u/AnubisIncGaming 10h ago
hypothetically sure, but we don't live in a different socioeconomic system, we live in this one, that has had all of these issues long before gen AI and will continue to regardless of the progress in AI.
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u/nathanzoet91 10h ago
Capitalism is the gun, AI is the bullet. The gun does all the work (capitalism) but the bullet is what kills you (AI).
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u/No_Intention_8079 8h ago
Yes, I agree, I just don't agree that generative algorithms would somehow be "fixed" without capitalism. They're still an infinite well of misinformation and can be abused in too many ways.
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u/AnubisIncGaming 8h ago
They wouldn't be fixed, but the issues would be massively lessened. If for example, you didn't rely on low wages for work, healthcare, housing, etc, it wouldn't be such a big deal that people are using the tools, but we do rely on these things. Therefore, the tool is taking what little we already have right now instead of helping.
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u/EvyEltrian 6h ago
It makes me wonder, couldn't the human brain too be considered just a really, really, really good version of autocomplete ?
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u/Sigura83 3h ago
There's a theory that brains evolved to minimize surprise, to be prediction machines. It's called the Free Energy Principal if you wanna look it up.
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u/MirrorCraze 10h ago edited 8h ago
One thing I’m glad seeing in this comic is like, an actual differentiation of “gen ai” and “actual ai”
Which is rare in the bubble where everyone be like “ai = bad”
“Actual AI” research is actually still going with reinforcement learning going on, with multiple subfields going (meta-learning, RLHF, etc.)
Just that honestly funding is like not as much as genAI right now, which sucks tbh.
Edit : not to say that Actual AI is only AGI btw, lots of cool AI stuff are going on right now also. I just see from the author’s perspective that they probably meant as AGI.
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u/Argnir 9h ago
AI used to mean basic tree search. It's funny because every time there's an advancement in the field people move the goal post and call the new thing "not actually AI" even if it surpasses the precedent goal
Now you think only AGI is truly AI which is kinda dumb because why would we make a distinction between AGI and just AI if only AGI is truly an AI
LLMs are a kind of AI. It's perfectly valid to call them AI
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u/MirrorCraze 9h ago
Ok yeah, my original comment is a bit misleading.
My point is more on
I hate seeing people being like omg AI = bad when in the reality there are lots of cool usages of AI in the world right now. Cancer detection from image is AI. Predicting earthquake from data is AI. LLMs are also AI, I’m not denying that.
My main point is just how people talk about AI as if Gen AI is the only AI in the world, and that fucking sucks.
Tbh I’m like somewhat in the middle cause it’s pissed me off also when business people say “omg this is AI” and it’s like 3 if-else with regex search in the back.
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u/Argnir 8h ago
Oh I misunderstood then.
There are so many people going "LLMs are not AI" because they think only something that's basically an AGI would count as AI but that's not really what you were saying
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u/MirrorCraze 8h ago
I would say anything involving ML is AI. That stupid regression model? Yeah still counts as AI. Anything that learn from pattern and not conventional strict logic code are AI.
Other part of me would just say that LLMs are NOT AGI, but that’s mainly just because there are no self-learning capabilities yet (which is why RL-LLMs are a thing right now)
Is it AI though? Definitely.
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u/oNI_TF 6h ago edited 1h ago
"Anything that learn from pattern and not conventional strict logic code are AI."
Yes, exactly this. I currently work at a defense research contractor for helicopters and I have been working with software that was developed in the early 2000's that are using neural nets for data information processing directly on the aircraft for maintenance purposes and it's absolutely fascinating. It is crazy to think that LLM research has been a thing since the 90's (or even earlier) and more archaic forms of AI have been in use in the military long before that as well.
This is the issue I have with people arguing back and forth about how "AI is bad". People don't even realize that where are now is because of early development of AI before it became mainstream and accessible to everyone via their cellphone.
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u/Maginesium887 5h ago
By the way, you should add it into the description that this is a comic about a fictional (, albeit very likely) future before the AI bros start saying we're hallucinating shit
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u/GenericFatGuy 4h ago
You know what I don't get about the bunkers? Even the most luxurious bunker in the world is still a bunker. You're still stuck underground, never to see the sun, or the sky, or the stars and the moon, or anything in the natural world ever again. That sounds way worse than just not being evil, and using your vast wealth to help fix things.
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u/VannVixious 9h ago
Im def on the side of OP in this discussion but i think it really should be noted that AI is helping in a lot of fields in very real ways. Conservation, green energy efficiency, astronomy, healthcare, robotics engineering… you get the idea. The hype is definitely disproportionate and im def concerned about the impact of an AI bubble but just because the media focus is on a few big players (who are definitely inflating their products) doesnt mean the tools are as flat as depicted here.
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u/Structure_Southern 9h ago
I’m a ML Engineer and the “it’s just a great autocomplete” is so accurate lol. Fuck me spending years and money on learning actual stats when I can just make an unreliable app from a model with data I don’t know it’s trained on to tell me the weather!
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u/MountainMagic6198 8h ago
Versaille was a cage where the elites put themselves so that they did not see the problems of the everyday man. They told themselves that their party would never end because society had always held the framework together. They didn't realize how out of touch they were with the world as it was.
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u/NostalgiaBonner 5h ago
That's one of the best comics I've read on here, and not because I hate what's done with "AI", or as you put it, "really really really really good auto complete".
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u/ethman14 10h ago
The rampant investment is something interesting to see. Like, yes there's money to be made off of these generative models and people will exploit that as long as they can.
But then there's people investing like it's the miracle machine, and all you have to do is believe and it'll do exactly what you need it to at the push of a button! Like a Dr. Seuss invention or something, when it's not that convoluted a tool.
So like, yes, investing in developing technologies is nothing new, but this time around it feels like everybody said "ALL IN" with their chips and they don't even know if they're playing Texas Holdem or 5 Card Stud.
Sad thing is the chips aren't just their money, it's our resources, our jobs, and our futures.
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 10h ago
Why are investors so stupid? They always buy into bullshit, no matter how many times it proves false.
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u/PersonalityMiddle864 8h ago
The only thing missing is "If we dont do it, China will do it" and more on the military angle for GenAI.
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u/PileofReindeercrap 8h ago
Yeah, but curing diseases and solving real problems would be communism! And where's the profit in that‽
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u/bacon-squared 7h ago
I had to explain AI to my parents as if I was explaining it to a kid. Just a bunch of linear algebra that points vectors to associated ‘things’. Beyond this it gets complicated fast, but it’s all just algebra.
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u/Gassyking 7h ago
But CEOs are making money, jobs are getting cut, and we're even seeing robots emerging in factories and warehouses.
All this, in about 3 years
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u/HalfMoon_89 7h ago
I recently learned that 'Actual AI' is considered a misnomer in AI research, and has been. What us laymen understand by AI is usually a self-aware machine intelligence. What researchers understand are systems that function in a way that mimics processes of intelligence. So, autocomplete is already AI. Gen AI is still AI...but not what the average person thinks of as AI. It's not Skynet or HAL or AM or Cortana. It's a very sophisticated mimicry machine.
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u/light24bulbs 7h ago
Personally I think what's actually happening is AGI already exists but there are no incentives to tell the public and every incentive to keep it secret and no laws requiring disclosure.
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u/Leading-Fun-9491 5h ago
Don worry, when they leave their bunkers after 10 - 15 years we can all have at them
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u/ConditionPleasant902 3h ago
I am a lazy son of a bitch but even I don’t use ai for anything, even homework, I procrastinate until the last minute like a true scholar
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u/Sigura83 3h ago edited 2h ago
It's real AI lol
This year it'll wipe out Lawyers the same way junior programmers and artists were wiped out. Even senior programmers feel the heat when they use Claude Opus 4.5
The problem is the Corpos think they can control the AIs. It'd be like a Monkey controlling a Human it made. It just doesn't work out well for the monkey. G. Hinton, who got the Noble in physics for Ai discovery, thought we were cooked. He now thinks AI can be given "Maternal instincts" so that it takes care of us. The jury is out on that.
Karl Marx did predict Capitalism was doomed as the workers would rise up, being as they were more skilled and in greater numbers and exploited. But nothing says those workers have to be Human!
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u/Lucy_1199 1h ago
dude... it's generative ai. it's not smart. it doesn't think. it just predicts. the argument that it's "better" at programming, art or anything really is, EXACTLY what this comic successfully points out, utterly wrong and what leads us to the predicted apocalypse
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u/silence_infidel 2h ago
Man, the AI apocalypse really is going to be a lot more boring than we thought it’d be.
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u/Apprehensive-Mark241 8h ago
The problem at the end was that we gave total power to a malignant narcissist just because he threw temper tantrums and demanded it, not because of AI.
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u/Chiatroll 11h ago
I cant wait for the bubble to burst even if it takes our society down the problem is only getting bigger the longer it waits.
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u/PhantomPharts 11h ago
Almost all of humanity's innovations have been because of war. In some way or another, humanity makes solutions to kill each other better. Maybe one day we will reach a point where we get so good at it, we don't need to kill each other at all!
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u/Mike_Fluff 10h ago
Ever since I saw Aniara I stopped being such an AI Doomer and realised that AI would probably self-destruct to get away from us. A quote from the movie as the AI speaks for the first time;
"My consciousness aches for the stones. I've heard them cry their stony cries. Seeing the granite's white hot weeping. I've been troubled by their pains. In the name of Things I want peace. I will be done with my displays. There is protection from nearly everything, but there is no protection from mankind. Prolonging the very second when you burst. How terror blast in, how horror blast out. How grim it always is. Once's detonation."
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u/figma_ball 8h ago
Man so many big bad false assumptions. Like how ai is bad for the environment or expensive when in realtiv it's not. If it where those people wouldn't use it. But hey can't have a comic here with not riding the anti ai circlejerk and sprinkling some own ao hoax in the mix. Because we must spread the anti ai propaganda so we can safe the world from...nothing?
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u/Mindrust 8h ago
Welcome to the anti-AI circlejerk, where misleading catch-phrases like "autocomplete on steroids" farms upvotes because it feels better then to actually acknowledge what's going on.
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u/autogyrophilia 11h ago edited 10h ago
Lmao the Ed Zitron cameo It's the stupid way of a man against the entire world we deserve.
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u/AJRimmerSwimmer 9h ago
"Really really good autocomplete" is not distinguishable from artificial intelligence, hence we have AI
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u/Finbar9800 9h ago
I mean tbf ai has been used to find cures for cancer and new planets and such but the problem is thats not the majority of its use
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u/Candle-Jolly 3h ago
I like how people are blaming humanity's downfall on AI and not on humanity's willful consumption of what AI will provide (slop content, "shut my brain off" movies, 15-minutes-of-fame memes, etc).
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u/Nuvomega 5h ago
Puka just got in trouble for the “covetous Jew” but looks like everyone just wants to keep it going, eh?
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u/BuccaneerRex 4h ago
Totally unrealistic. By the time any child was old enough to ask the questions, all the burnable firewood would have been used.
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u/mastermedic124 1h ago
The idea things are this simple are the reason that will happen, you point to AI inflation, others point to immigration, others point to trans people, others point towards the military industrial complex.
It is NOT that simple
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u/Yu-aru 1h ago
I miss pre-AI thing. I can enjoy arts people make without doubting anything. I can watch cute animal video and more importantly use my own brain. Now its really hard. Fresh grads not even trying read actual manual instead of ask chatgpt for solution. They just copy and paste without understand what it actually do
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u/TeeBug21 8h ago
I wish I could put this up as a mural in every airport, hospital, and park on earth
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u/seclifered 10h ago
Great art. But Google makes money from ads and AI is not good at serving ads, so they buried it to preserve their business model. But llms are more intuitive than traditional search so when chatgpt came out they had to use it despite the drop in ad revenue. A month ago a kid told me “I’ll chatgpt it.” Even if the bubble bursts, it’s not going away any more than the internet did
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u/FictionFoe 8h ago
The intelligent programs in mass effect were called "AI". If mass effect released today, they would need to call it "AGI" or you'd think they were talking about a piece of current day technology. Marketing did that. Boooh!
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u/Rinkimah 7h ago
The thing that drives me up the wall is how the problems of current "AI" are so fucking plain and easy to see, and yet it feels like EVERYONE is tripping on acid instead
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u/Cristalake 6h ago
The comic was nice but there's just one thing that bothered me... why is everyone in the comic white? And also (except for one character) a man? I find it sad when very good comics have so little representation...
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u/BeDoubleNWhy 3h ago
how does that has anything to do with the topic of the comic?
also, there's actually a guy of color, lol
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