Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
@TomSnarsky I also think about the emerson quote about not remembering the books you’ve read any more than the meals you’ve eaten - “even so, they have made me”
@confusionm8trix I think often about the Walcott poem “Volcano” in which he writes about giving up writing poems, “to be, instead,/their ideal reader, ruminative,/voracious, making the love of masterpieces/superior to attempting/to repeat or outdo them,/and be the greatest reader in the world.”
my castle is powered by 8 thousand goblins in the basement. they run on little wheels for me and i convert the rotation into energy. i dont even make them do it i just made it into a game for them. theres a leaderboard and a battlepass and everything, the goblins go nuts for it
restricting your imagination really takes the fun out of it, man. if a filmmaker wants to use their creative liberty to shrink you and the camera down inside the mask giving us a perspective from a space that doesn't even exist, i'm all for it.
hi. i am billionaire. for my entire adult life, i have rewired my brain to only seek to extract money. i am building a machine to destroy you and everything you love and turn it into money that i own.
(American) : This is so cool. this is the coolest thing i have ever heard
🚨 Do you understand what's happening at Amazon right now?
Their own AI coding agent Kiro reportedly "decided" the fastest way to fix a config error was to delete the entire production environment. Gone. A 6-hour outage. 6.3 million orders lost.
Amazon's SVP called thousands of engineers into a mandatory meeting this week. Not to discuss strategy. To discuss damage control.
Now here's my prediction and I want you to screenshot this:
Amazon won't just ban AI-assisted code. They'll make every engineer personally liable for AI-generated code they approve. Other Big Tech will follow within 6 months.
Think about what that means.
The same companies that fired thousands of engineers to "restructure around AI" are about to tell the remaining ones.. you're now legally responsible for code you didn't write, can't fully understand, and were told to ship faster.
Atlassian fired 1,600 people this morning to go all-in on AI. Replit is hiring kids who vibe code. And Amazon, the company that BUILT one of these AI coding agents just watched it nuke production.
The vibe coding era isn't ending. But the "move fast and let AI break things" era is about to hit a wall. And that wall is called liability.
Companies wanted AI to replace engineers. Now they need engineers to babysit AI. And they already fired the babysitters.
THIS is an example of practical AI use. fuck generative AI, use machine learning as a tool to assist in human made content. AI shouldn’t replace human work, it should replace obsolete tools for human work like chroma keying
reality is such nightmare fuel that if you try to talk about current events with someone who is blissfully uninformed it is quite literally impossible not to sound delusional, conspiracy-pilled and wildly schizophrenic.