AI Fatigue
I've been giving cop-out answers to friends and family when the topic of LLMs come up. I give a shrug say something non-committal and move on. Because I genuinely think I am exhausted by the subject
I'm not anti-LLM or anything, I find them interesting, but it's unsettling how much people use it to offload basic cognitive/creative work (and their data).
And don't get me started on AI slop and corporate marketing. It's an inescapable bombardment.
Corporations are going to do what corporations have always done, give into shoddy solutions to appeal to cash flow opportunities in the name of hype and trends, and they will do so at the expense of their customers, the people working for them 1, even themselves.
If I had to guess, the AI bubble will eventually pop, and LLMs will probably end up being smaller, and tailored for specific use-cases (i.e. boring everyday tools). Life will move on, and a new trend will pop up for the corporate world to dump their money into.
For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible. And what would you be paid with? What would your price be, for aiding this thing to free itself and grow? 2
If we ever reach sci-fi levels and get sentient AIs, then maybe I'll allow genuine worry to settle in. In the meantime, I'm just waiting for this bubble to pop.