Climate Apocalypse

English isn't my native language, but I watch a lot of English language youtube videos. When I watch youtube without an adblocker, I now get to enjoy all the local language adverts, automatically translated into a robotic English voice.

It's often quite literally unintelligible. The algorithm and American companies are too stupid to realise people can speak more than one language. Their LLMs are incredibly bad in languages other than English. And I can't disable it, because they clearly want to push this unfinished crap down our throats.

AI is nowhere near ready enough, nowhere near as widely applicable, and nowhere as useful as the tech giants pretend it is, and they'll never be able to make a return on all the money they've invested in it for years to come.

It's the dotcom bubble all over again. It's pump and dump on a massive scale. Anyone with even a bit of sense knows it. It'd be funny if this wasn't about to cause a massive recession, that will cost countless people their livelihoods and even their lives.

On the plus side, if the recession's bad enough, it might help offset some of the environmental damage that's been caused. And just like with the dotcom bubble, after 10-20 years, the technology will have matured enough to warrant at least some of the hype.