The Truth about AI? Sounds about right to me
This week I was introduced to Ed Zitron. Read below. This is the comment, with minor edits to make sense in this space, that I posted after reading Ed's essay, The Slop Society , for his January 17th newsletter. I've never had a Facebook account. I've had an unused Instagram account and, as I was reading Ed's newsletter, I deleted Instagram from my phone. For some reason, perhaps my natural distrust of some things (I'm not necessarily proud of this), I have had a chip on my shoulder against Silicon Valley and their products and, just generally. their way of being. The tech industry has destroyed San Francisco (at one time an astonishingly beautiful city - feel free to disagree - unfortunately, I also remember the hippy era). I also believe that Silicon Valley and the tech industry is the foundation of the grotesque inequality we have in our country. I believe Donald Trump and his tech oligarchs like Zuckerberg, Altman, Bezos, Musk, et.al. use il...