Not every prediction needs to be pessimistic. You could always help contribute more optimistic predictions of your own.

Go right ahead

I don’t hate AI, LLMs are incredibly powerful tools that have an incredibly wide range of uses. The technology itself is something that’s very exciting and promising.

What I do hate is how they’re being used by large corporations. A small handful of big tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, OpenAI, etc) decided to take this technology and pursue it in the greediest ways possible:

1. They took open source code, built on top of it, and closed it off so they could sell it

2. They scrapped all the data on the internet without consent and used it to train their models

3. They made their models generate stuff based on copyrighted works without permission or giving credit, thus basically stealing the content

4. But that wasn’t enough for them so they decided to train their models on every interaction you have with their LLM services, so all your private conversations are stored and recycled even if you don’t want that to happen

5. They use the data from the conversations that you’ve had with the chatbots to build customer profiles about you that they sell to advertisers so they could send you hoards of personalized ads

6. They started integrating their LLMs into their other products as much as they could so they could artificially increase their stock prices

7. They aggressively campaign for other companies to buy and integrate their models so both parties could artificially increase their stock prices

8. In order to meet their artificially induced demand, they’re sucking the life out of the electricity grid, which is screwing over everybody else

9. They’re also taking over the hardware industry and killing off consumer electronics since its more profitable for manufacturers to sell to AI companies than to consumers

10. They’re openly bribing, lobbying, and campaigning governments to give them grants, tax breaks, and keep regulations at a minimum so they could do whatever they want and have society pay for the privilege

11. They’re using these LLMs to cut as many jobs as possible so they could penny pinch just a little more, hence the massive waves of recent layoffs recently. This is being done even if the LLM replacements perform far worse than humans.

12. All of this is being done with zero regard to the environmental damage caused by them with their monstrous data centers and electricity consumption

13. All of this is being done with zero regard to the harmful impacts caused to people and society. These LLMs frequently lie and spread misinformation, they feed into delusions and bad habits of mentally unwell people, and they’re causing great damage to schools since students could use these models to easily cheat and nothing can be done about it

When you put all of this together, then it’s easy to understand why people hate AI. This is what people oppose, and rightfully so. These corporations created a massive bubble and put our economy at risk of a major recession, they’re destabilizing our infrastructure, destroying our environment, they’re corrupting our government, they’re forcing tens of thousands of people into dire financial situations by laying them off, they’re eroding our privacy and rights, and they’re harming our mental health… and for what? I’ll tell you, all of this is done so a few greedy billionaires could squeeze a few more dollars out of everything so they could buy their 5th yacht, 9th private jet, or 7th McMansion. Fuck them all.

You’re literally support atrocities and tyranny. You have zero friends because you’re fundamentally evil. This is why when someone as soulless as you tries to pretend that they have some moral ground, it can only ever be taken as a joke. The “liberal” pejorative only exists in your head as a way to project your own evil on to others to cope with such a disgusting worldview

“It never happened but they deserved it”

There it is, you’re an evil piece of shit who actually supports these atrocities. You don’t care about the validity of the sources because you you never cared about what the facts are. To parasitic bootlicking enthusiasts such as yourself, cruelty is the point. You give nazis a run for their money when it comes to tyrannical monsters.

This isn’t something new, controversial, or some hidden secret. It’s something that’s academically studied and well documented. This was literally the USSR’s go to propaganda tactic when it was still around. Literally only out of touch tankies cannot comprehend common knowledge like this.

A big part of Soviet propaganda is their use of whataboutism is deflect criticism against their regime. Supporters of the USSR and far left ideologies have inherited this tactic, which is why whenever you see anybody criticize someone on the far left, they always resort to using whataboutism, especially about the US. It’s recycled material from a dead regime.

This is the type of psychotic shit that help remind me that this shitty ideology and its supporters are evil monsters who should never get anywhere near power. It’s no wonder that Communist regimes gave Fascist regimes a run for their money and then some when it comes to committing atrocities and tyranny.

This is an ignorant argument because the ideology of communism is not the communist utopia. These are two distinct concepts.

Marx and Engels were both notorious authoritarians who made fun of the pacifist socialists of their time for being too weak and cowardly, and they preached violence for as long as they lived, and this reflected in their works. The communist ideology as described by them has three stages:

1. A violent revolution that overthrows capitalism
2. A tyrannical transitional socialist state that rules with an iron fist on the “behalf of the workers” is tasked with protecting the revolution by any means and bringing about the social conditions necessary to realize communism (dictatorship of the proletariat)
3. Actually realizing communism

Since communism is a utopia, it will never, ever be achieved, and so the communist ideology will always get stuck on stage 2 forever… and that’s exactly what we’ve seen in history. Every single communist attempt in history that has resulted in a successful violent revolution ended up being tyrannical hellhole with a regime that always swore that communism was around the corner but they’re not quite there yet.

The only people who try to conflate the communist utopia with the communist ideology are Marxists who are too disingenuous to admit that their crappy ideology is in fact inherently violent and inherently authoritarian. No amount of True Scotsman fallacies about “real” communism is going to change reality. Those were real communist attempts, those were real communist policies, and those were real communist principles at work. No, it’s not fascism, it’s communism. This is what the ideology results in every single time. No amount of attempts is going to change the inevitable outcome. People forget, but Fascism and Communism are sister ideologies. They’re not opposite ideologies, but adjacent ones.

I wasn’t arguing, I was just restating the point you made

Wikipedia isn’t the source moron, it’s just an aggregator of info. The actual source is the Soviet Union itself because they did this, and they left behind quite a lot of victims and documents for us to see what they did.

Soviet propaganda literally revolves around deflecting criticism of their evil behaviors with whataboutism with the US.

The point still stands that left wing authoritarians like Marxists and right wing authoritarians like Fascists tend to mirror each other in policy because there’s so much overlap with the authoritarianism.

Tankies literally can’t handle facts so they resort to toddler levels of denialism like this

No, we can say they were wrong because doing something like this is evil and tyrannical

For sharing a fact? You’re a “special” one, aren’t you?

You’re 100% correct, the people downvoting are dumb

Most of these houses are not in downtowns of big cities but in rural towns that are far away from everything. Not to mention, just because a unit is vacant that doesn’t mean it’s not being used.

No, you’re just wrong. You can’t twist reality to fit some niche ideological fantasy that you find sexy.

The reality is that statistics show that if we took all the vacant houses including all those that are inhabitable, under renovations, all the second, third, whatever homes, and we took all the investment properties as well and made them all immediately available, there would still NOT be enough houses to meet the current demand.

The reality is that we have very nonsensical and outdated zoning as well as restrictive construction process that strangle output. We need to reform our zoning laws and expedite construction to pump the market with many new housing units as possible to not just meet, but also exceed demand. That’s the only way to bring house prices down in a genuine way while also giving people homes that they actually want to live in places that they want to live in.

How many of these are actually habitable? I would assume a large portion are either too dilapidated or under renovations.

I very much doubt that nearly a third of the housing stock is vacant for no reason, especially when it’s a seller’s market. The statistics for people who own more than home or buildings with more than unit are not enough to explain the difference. I’m skeptical of these random no name authors on websites like medium.

I know people here want a sexy quick solution, but the reality is that this country’s housing stock is too small, too old, and is not keeping up with demand at all. The one and only solution is to reform zoning laws, expedite housing construction, and pump the market with so many new units that it not only meets demands, but exceeds to the point where prices fall and we have a buyer’s market.