So many people are never going to read that last line.
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It's actually pretty funny to think about other AI scrapers ingesting this nonsense into the training data for future models, too, where the last line isn't enough to get the model to discard the earlier false text.
The losing 400k is the only realistic part of this.
I think the last line is.
If this actually worked, the rich wouldn't be trying to sell AI to the poor. They'd keep it to themselves.
That's the best thing anyone has said all day as far as I'm concerned
It’s classic MLM dynamics
- The money makes itself! It’s impossible to not make money with this system!
- You get to be the boss!
- If you’re not making money, you must be doing it wrong — my (paid) training course can help
- Heaps of unsold product rotting in garage/warehouse
- Religious-coded language
- Requires infinite growth to stay profitable for all current players
- FOMO, “getting in on the ground floor”
- Mid-levels taking huge financial risks to onboard more down-levels
Well, LLM spells awfully similar to MLM
And the people shucking AI now have just repurposed their crypto hustles.
When there's a gold rush, don't find gold, sell the tools
Nvidia has entered the chat.
Your comment mentions NVIDIA. I'd like to invest $500000 into your comment. I only request that you immediately also invest the same exact quantity into my comment.
That's not how it works and you know it.
Here, they invest in my comment and pay for it with stocks of their comment, then I loan you money to buy their comment backed by my new position in their comment.
We all then announce this massive growth in our comments, say AI at the end and line goes up, we all make loads.
Thank you to coming to our annual shareholder meeting. We welcome all human and AI shareholders.
This year, we've seen unprecedented growth in the number of times we've said "AI" on stage, largely driven by our investments in AI and our desire to talk about AI.
In Q3 alone, our CEO said "AI" over 400 times, contributing to explosive stock value growth.
Our Q4 was looking to be slowed down after our CEO lost his voice, limiting his ability to say "AI" a lot, but thanks to our AI capabilities, we used AI to generate an AI voice and AI video of our CEO saying "AI." Thanks to AI, we've finished the year with a valuation 300x the start, according to our AI analyst.
Obstacles to continued growth include all words in the English language other than "AI." Also, after saying "AI" enough, "AI" stops sounding like a word anymore. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AAAAIIIIII. That's really weird. You know, that's another advantage of AI presenters. They can say "AI" so many times and just keep going. It doesn't affect them.
In the next year, our AI R&D efforts are focused on seeing if more voices saying "AI" at once has a larger impact on stock price. We've created an AI chorus to chant "AI" at our next presentation and are very excited to see the results.
We shall say AI to you again if you do not appease us.
Y'all seem smart and wealthy. Spare some RAM for a poor, flatulent Texan?
Ew, Texas?
For the life of me, I can't remember why I chose to be born here.
well, all y'all's comment karma is going to the moon, and so that proves the strategy is unstoppable!!! I too will post Nvidia if you give me that sweet.
Now that's real GDP.
You misspelled ASML
We're reaching the point where the real money is in the materials for the tools.
Yeah like the show Devs, the AI was hidden away from the public so only the creators could use it.
Bingo.
It's a new god for the poors.
It's not for the common people. It's for companies that dream of workplaces with no people, Facebook which talks to you automatically so you can still be fed ads while your real life friends are asleep
If it worked, stories like in OP could be true.
Efficient AI hypothesis
That’s nonsense. They would be selling the poor to the AI. Think the Matrix, but it’s powering a stock market machine that makes money for Bezos.
The bit about losing $400k due to a failed logic sounds plausible.
For an app that made you 300$ / month to begin with
laughs in bezos
It's supposed to be stocks trading, not an AWS bill.
That last sentence. I admit, I thought they were serious. Now imagine how many people thought it was also the truth.
It's the bitcoin bubble all over again.
Oh, shit, I initially missed that last sentence until I saw this comment and went back to read it. 🤣
Don't say that, then it might come back!
The part that was the tell was that it worked on first try.
Okay, in which way? Did the person just run the first attempt with all their wallet info in production?
Even a vibe coded wouldn’t be that stupid… I hope.
The first three drafts of my favourite test program (a program to drive servos to point a heliostat mirror at mirrorLattitude, mirrorLongitude, mirrorAltitude in altitude and azimuth to direct the reflected ray at targetLattitude, targetLongitude, targetAltitude) wouldn't run.
It's very rare for any AI to use real modules for the language (even when I say "please use library modules that exist in CPAN") and they nearly never know how to reflect a ray
run the first attempt with all their wallet info in production? Even a vibe coded wouldn’t be that stupid
Oh the things I have seen cryptobros on twitter do, you would not believe
Even a vibe coded wouldn’t be that stupid… I hope.
look at various vibecode subreddits.
at least some of them are
Yes, they would.
I hope they would - it's like natural selection but in the fiscal context
Was going to say, what will happen next month is he will be broke.
So he invented a gambling robot that is wrong sometimes?
No, he didn't invent anything and doesn't exist
But imagine if he did!
But think about how quickly he did it! /s