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Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

This is your monologue for the week, and I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

So you've probably seen or heard about or even read the abominable nonsensical hogslop essay

called something big is coming perhaps seeing people that should know better like

medic hassan who called it the most important thing you read today despite it being both

AI generated and complete fucking nonsense.

This essay has done the rounds because of its histrionic tone and deliberate leaning upon the anxieties

of those scared of AI and the mythology of AI boosters, and across 4,700 boobler's shit-ass

words says very little new or interesting, along with multiple egregious lies. I will be attaching an

annotated version of this essay to this monologue, but I want to give you a broad explanation of what

it really says and why it's full of shit. But let's start with who wrote him. Matt Schumer is a guy

who makes an AI startup called Other Side AI, which does this thing called Hyperite, which is an AI

writing assistant with web search and citations, which translates this thing called Hyperite, which is an AI writing assistant with

web search and citations, which translates to mean it's a wrapper for various large language

models that he's prompting. Appropriately, when I asked it to write a critique of his piece,

it said that its weaknesses lied in its lack of specifics and that its alarmist framing

grabs attention and it's heavy on the hype and light on

actual insight and you know what matt you fucking you got one innovation and it's that even your

shit-assed l-lm rapper doesn't like your bullshit and i think it's also being too kind schumer makes

numerous egregious misstatements about the current state of AI, using vague yet scary

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