those devs and tech “influencers” who pioneered the technical work of putting “AI” shit in everything everywhere, and are—for the most part—the assholes who enabled our brave new “AI” world by actually figuring out how to make it run, are also going to be the people who get credit for criticising it after the bubble pops, aren’t they?
Everybody will latch onto their vague concerns and ignore the fact that they literally implemented the shit that got smeared everywhere, aren’t they?
@baldur it's the secret of how to have a long career as music journalist: know when to fluff up a new indie garage band, when to ride the hype wave as the one who "discovered" them, and when to declare their moment is "over".
I should have realised this sooner because this is what happened to those who criticised the dot-com and web 2.0 bubbles. All of the criticism of those bubbles has been memory-holed.
@baldur That‘s one reason why I accept being a somewhat contrarian critic on occasion. We tend to „win“ on the rebound, when people ask for the critic.
@baldur The way I'm seeing it play out, the "concerns" they offer are functioning perfectly as the performative response to the criticism that targets them.
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