7 Ways GenAI Is Like Cocaine & 1 Way It's Not
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7 Ways GenAI Is Like Cocaine & 1 Way It's Not

The now years of this absurd bubble of nonsense has given plenty of time to think of ways to best communicate how wrong trying to shove BS-happy chatbots into everything and everywhere is for all products, services, companies, societies, and the world.

I'm not sure if it was the latest awful piece of "creativity" I saw proudly shown to the class, or it was the unbelievable annoying-ness of yet another of the professional liars I hear pushing this grift, but something make me go "ah, of course, it's just like cocaine!"

Here are 7 ways GenAI is just like cocaine:

  1. Users tend to be insufferable corporate dude-bros who are desperate to make you try it too
  2. Contrary to all reality checks and common sense, users believe their drug gives them superpowers
  3. Users believe they are more productive under the influence, no matter how many times they sober up and see the results
  4. Users believe everything they do under the influence is suddenly hella creative, no matter how many times they sober up and see the results
  5. The amount and speed of words and actions from people under the influence can be overwhelming
  6. To anyone not under the influence, the work of those using is farcical incoherence and/or generic dross
  7. People under the influence leave a trail of high volume wreckage in their wake that sober people have to try to clean up

And the 1 way GenAI is not like cocaine:

  • Cocaine suppliers at the top of the pyramid make money on every transaction winning billions per year supplying cocaine.
  • GenAI suppliers at the top of the pyramid lose money on every transaction losing billions per year supplying GenAI.

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