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“While talking to
Linus Tech Tips, Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux OS,
called Elon Musk "simply incompetent" and "too stupid to work in a tech
company" — to which, everyone seemingly agreed. It's hard not to, what with the
dozens of times Musk has proven just how inept he is. The Nazi salutes
destroying his carefully crafted public image, pushing baseless and dangerous
conspiracy theories, his obviously false claims, impossible timelines, idiotic
product design, his total lack of self-awareness, and constantly shooting
himself in the foot and blaming others have collectively painted Musk as an
utter buffoon not fit to manage a lemonade stand, let alone his sprawling
empire. But why is Musk like this? Don't get me wrong, he always had a screw
loose or two, but he has gotten substantially worse over the past few years.
And it isn't just Musk; every Big Tech CEO is far more erratic, nonsensical and
deranged than they were a few years ago. What is going on? Well, I have a
theory that, like a drug dealer getting hooked on their own supply and
spiralling, the very products these morons push are breaking their minds, and
all the Big Tech CEOs are suffering from severe AI psychosis.
Sometime in the early 2010s, Big Tech CEOs made a considerable shift. They went
from cosplaying Steve Jobs to generate attention, admiration and speculative
value to cosplaying Tony Stark for the same reasons. They went from trying to
take a minimal, thought-out, precision approach to trying to fool us all into
thinking they are an extravagant polymath rule breaker, whose lack of
consistency is outshone by their performance. And what does a reckless tech
genius of this nature have? Their own bleeding-edge AI assistant. So, that is
what all these impostors set out to create and use.
In 2014, Bezos launched Alexa and installed it in every room of his house. In
2015, Musk helped found OpenAI. In a very on-the-nose case, Zuckerberg created
his own personal AI assistant and called it Jarvis.
Now, using these tools as a novelty or for occasional help is not the end of
the world. But these guys didn't leave it there. It is all but confirmed that
the vast majority of Big Tech CEOs have been extensively using AI as personal
assistants and the like to help them manage their time and their businesses. We
shouldn't be surprised by this. We know Zuckerberg has been doing this for many
years; Musk has been using his Grok AI in this manner since 2023; and Sam
Altman has used ChatGPT as a personal assistant since its launch and has even
highlighted how he uses its Pulse feature for this.
This kind of overuse of AI is a huge problem.
But why?”
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
