In case you were wondering, it is perfectly fine with Ed Zittron if you call him an AI hater.

I think so. I think considering I wrote a haters guide, and when you type Hater's Guide into Google, it's one of the top two links, the thing I wrote.

Ed writes the newsletter, Where's Your Ed at?

And has a podcast called Better Offline.

He's a PR guy, but for the last few years, has been really making a name for himself

as someone who dislikes generative AI, especially large language models.

They are economically not feasible.

They require stealing from millions of people.

They require burning our environment.

They're incredibly expensive and inefficient.

And also, they have now become a load-bearing part of our economy

without having any means of bailing out or going into the green

at all. It's all very dangerous. Yeah, not a fan, which is exactly why we asked him on the show.

And I want to be clear here, Ed doesn't hate all AI, but large language models like ChatchyT and Claude, he is out there shouting from the

rooftops that all that money pumped into those companies has created a giant bubble. One he

started warning about in 2024. Indeed, I looked across pretty much every public company talking

about AI. No one would talk about the revenue from AI. They kept talking about how big AI was, how important AI it was, how many things

AI could do, always could do, never what it did that day, but never, hey, we're making this much

money. And then I started reading articles about it and the quotes and all the quotes were really

vague too. And it became really all the quotes were really vague too.

And it became really obvious that we were doing this again, this being another bubble,

after the cryptocurrency one and the Metaverse one. But this one was more egregious and was already at that point running away. What kind of reactions did you get?

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