Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In the second of this week's two-part episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the dark truth of the generative AI industry - that consumer adoption of Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity is incredibly small, and it’s time to accept that there is nothing coming to justify the ruinous costs of Large Language Models.
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| 0:38.3 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 1:02.4 | Last part, I really laid down how bad things are for Open AI, how bad a company they are, how they spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion, how bad things look. |
| 1:04.3 | But Open AI, they have users. |
| 1:06.1 | I mean, the users lose the money. |
| 1:08.2 | Every single user paying or not loses the money. |
| 1:10.4 | They can only survive if they're given more money. They will literally die if not given more venture capital money. And that really bothers me. |
| 1:15.4 | And that bothers me a great deal. Listen to the episode again if you want to really understand why. |
| 1:20.1 | But let's start this one with a very, very simple question. Is generative AI a real industry? |
| 1:26.7 | Look, the large language model paradigm is yet to produce a |
| 1:30.8 | successful mass market product, and no, large language models are not a success, nor are they |
| 1:35.6 | mass market. I know you're going to say chat GPT is huge. We've already been through that. I just |
| 1:40.1 | talked about that. But surely, surely, right? Like, it wouldn't just be open AI, right? |
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