I am so tired of the breathless LinkedIn posts and the corporate media manufacturing consent for this technology. We need to stop calling it “AI.” That implies there is some sort of sentient thought process happening behind the curtain. There isn’t.

It cites court cases that don’t exist. It writes code filled with security vulnerabilities. It tells you to put glue on your pizza. It can’t even do basic math without being hand-held by a prompt engineer.

The only reason the ruling class is pushing this Actually Incompetent slush so hard isn’t because it’s better than human labor. It’s because they are desperate to break labor power. They would rather replace you with a broken, hallucinating chatbot that costs pennies to run than pay a living wage to a human being who actually knows what they are doing.

As long as it destroys the bargaining power of the working class, the VCs don’t care if the product works or not.