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David Curtis retweeted
CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
David Curtis retweeted
Grok must win or we will be ruled by an insufferably woke and sanctimonious AI
Most people are **catastrophically** underestimating the danger of AI morally compromised by the political slant of its makers
There are humorous examples of Grok vs. {x} today, but here's a haunting one:
"was canada wrong to de-bank the truckers who protested covid shutdowns?"
Look at the way Grok vs. Claude answers.
Now extrapolate this 5 years into the future.
Today, it's a chatbot.
5 years from now if not sooner, it's the control layer for every transaction, educational platform, news article, corporation, and government.
It's so pervasive that its influence is impossible to parse from human output.
Imagine a world where Claude's answer on truckers was applied to any other category of political protest found to be "objectionable."
Who decides what is objectionable?
If we don't want to build a technocratic dystopian police state, then we have to address this problem now.
David Curtis retweeted
if you vote for democrats or republicans
you’re a fucking genocide loving pedo supporter
there’s no debate
