Even if the bubble pops, the spambots will be here for the rest of our lives. Indeed the inference will only get cheaper as hardware prices plummet and get repurposed by third parties running DeepSeek etc. Just like the dotcom burst didn't wipe out the internet, only the people who lost touch with reality.
Good point, open models and cheap hardware will allow the spam to continue flowing. I don’t know if we’ll see as many polished AI “services”, though. I do wonder if press releases and traditional marketing copy may go back to the old ways, at least for a while.
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Looking at the markets, either we all get turned into paperclips soon, or what goes up finally does the inevitable.
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
Even if the bubble pops, the spambots will be here for the rest of our lives. Indeed the inference will only get cheaper as hardware prices plummet and get repurposed by third parties running DeepSeek etc. Just like the dotcom burst didn't wipe out the internet, only the people who lost touch with reality.
Good point, open models and cheap hardware will allow the spam to continue flowing. I don’t know if we’ll see as many polished AI “services”, though. I do wonder if press releases and traditional marketing copy may go back to the old ways, at least for a while.