Wheres’ Your Ed At,  Edward Zitron: “It’s been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we’ve seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace it. I realize that Large Language Models like GPT-4o — the model that powers ChatGPT and a bunch of other apps — have use cases, and I’m fucking tired of having to write this sentence. There are people that really like using Large Language Models for coding (even if the code isn’t good or makes systems less secure and stable) or get something out of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-powered search, or like using one of the various AI companions or journal apps.  I get it. I get that there are people that use LLM-powered software, and I must be clear that anecdotal examples of some people using some software that they kind-of like is not evidence that generative AI is a sustainable or real industry at the trillion-dollar scale that many claim it is. I am so very bored of having this conversation, so I am now going to write out some counterpoints so that I don’t have to say them again…”