So I was looking into the history of battery naming conventions. this is imo the absolute best thing about the internet, quickly finding information on very niche topics. I was really excited that somebody actually made a video about the exact weird question I had just asked myself and couldn’t find out enough about on wikipedia! I was however quickly disappointed to realize that it’s basically just shitty AI slop designed to play the youtube algorithm and generate watch time. at 1:24 the way the sentence is phrased is not only a dead giveaway, it’s also detrimental to the understandability of the content, not that there is really any meaningful information being conveyed in this video beyond the immediately obvious. then at 3:01 the battery shown is so totally not an A battery!! that’s an ignition dry cell, the precursor to the LR40, the thing is 15 cm tall and can hold 40 fucking amp-hours! just look at those huge fucking screw contacts on the top!!! that’s where I realized what was going on. these guys are spreading worthless, misleading falsehoods, poisoning the well of information we call the internet, and at the very least they’re parasites, leaching away our time on this earth just so they can make a couple of pennies worth of profit. it breaks my heart 💔
Wait.
It just dawned on me.
That’s the whole fucking point of LLMs. They can’t change truthful sources of information, they can only change what information is presented to the User.
By massively pumping in billions and billions of dollars into the LLM Slop machine, it’s not investing in a useless technology, it’s investing in anti-intellectualism. It’s entirely on purpose.
They’re trying to poison the minds of people.
They’re not trying to. They’re mostly trying to replace the need for wages and salaries.
The fact that they’re doing it with effectively “we have wage slaves at home” leads to your point.
AI can be a great tool. As an assistant. As a fancy search engine. And sometimes to do the most menial parts of jobs. But it doesn’t directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that’s not a whole job, and second, it still needs supervision. It’s a tool.
There may be some involved that see this as useful for their purposes. Let’s not fool ourselves though, the main reason has always been the money. Once it was realized this could be a huge profit scheme, that was the purpose. Anything else, good or bad, is a side effect of the money grab. Regulations should have stepped in long, long ago, but laws are always way behind technology.