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1its utility vague and its ubiquity overstatedhttps://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-fried/#:~:text=It%27s%20also%20fair,generating%20organizations%20money.Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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2double-digit percent increases in hyper scalers’ emissions.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51yvz51k2xo?ref=wheresyoured.atBBCImran Rahman-Jones
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3Mark Zuckerberg was once so disconnected from Meta’s work on AI that he literally had no idea of the AI breakthrough Sundar Pichai complimented him about in a meetinghttps://www.yahoo.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-once-detached-metas-053505767.html?ref=wheresyoured.atYahooKwan Wei Kevin Tan
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4and none of them, not even Apple, have built something truly innovative and life-changing in the best part of a decadehttps://www.wheresyoured.at/how/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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5where established technologists are ratfucked by management goons when they refuse to make their products worse for a profithttps://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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6the stench of Jack Welch wafting through every boardroomhttps://www.wheresyoured.at/tss/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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7needs another $5 billion, if not $10 billion, to make it to the end of 2025https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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8OpenAI most assuredly won’t be able to go publichttps://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/#:~:text=what%20are%20its%20plans%20to%20go%20publicWhere's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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9the monstrous form of General Electric in Jack Welch’s erahttps://www.wheresyoured.at/tss/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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10He cares about accumulating power, has been doing so for yearshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/03/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley?ref=wheresyoured.atThe GuardianGary Marcus
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11as generative AI is a dead-end technology that has peakedhttps://www.wheresyoured.at/peakai/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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12both financially and sociallyhttps://www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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13than tech’s lack of new hypergrowth marketshttps://www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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14they know Google is worse, they know Facebook is bordering on unusablehttps://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/Where's Your Ed At Ed Zitron
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15It is no longer time to ask Mark Zuckerberg about his chain https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-fashion-designer-era-tshirts-chains-raybans-2024-8?ref=wheresyoured.atBusiness InsiderJordan Hart
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16it's time to ask him how long he intends to burn tens of billions of dollars on nothinghttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-reality-check-inside-the-45-billion-cash-burn-at-reality-labs-125717347.html?ref=wheresyoured.atYahooYasmin Khorram
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17why the website that made him so many billions is falling apart at the seams,https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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18 pumped full of content created by the big stupid bullshit machine he's helped popularizehttps://www.businessinsider.com/meta-facebook-ban-ai-slop-images-shrimp-jesus-why-2024-6?ref=wheresyoured.atBusiness InsiderKatie Notopoulos
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19It is no longer time to gingerly coo about Sundar Pichai holding your smartphonehttps://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-search-gemini-future-of-the-internet-web-openai-decoder-interview?ref=wheresyoured.at#:~:text=I%E2%80%99m%20going%20to%20do%20something%20terrifying%2C%20which%20is%2C%20I%E2%80%99m%20going%20to%20hand%20my%20phone%20to%20the%20CEO%20of%20Google.%20This%20is%20my%20personal%20phone.%20Don%E2%80%99t%20dig%20through%20it.The VergeNilay Patel
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20press him again and again and again about how awful Google search has got. https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/?ref=wheresyoured.at404 MediaJason Koebler
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21 "referendums on capitalism" https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-microsoft-ceo-referendum-on-capitalism-2020-10?ref=wheresyoured.atBusiness InsiderGrace Dean
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22laying off tens of thousands of peoplehttps://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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23paid hundreds of millions of dollars https://www.reuters.com/technology/alphabet-ceo-pichai-reaps-over-200-mln-2022-amid-cost-cutting-2023-04-22/?ref=wheresyoured.at#:~:text=Alphabet%20CEO%20Pichai%20reaps%20over%20%24200%20million%20in%202022%20amid%20cost%2Dcutting,-By%20Reuters&text=April%2021%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Alphabet,a%20securities%20filing%20on%20Friday.ReutersRishabh Jaisawl
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24a nihilistic kind of growth-capitalismhttps://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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25“disruption.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/disruption-killed-innovation/Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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26changed its name to another, worse ideahttps://www.wheresyoured.at/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-liar-and-hes/Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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27Shira Ovide in March 2023, mere months after ChatGPT's launch saying it wasn't magichttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/28/silly-uses-ai-are-giving-me-flashbacks-flatulence-apps/?ref=wheresyoured.atWashington PostShira Ovide
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28“ChatGPT isn't good enough to take jobs and is unlikely to cause mass layoffs: 'The hot takes have run into reality.”https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-isnt-good-enough-to-take-jobs-unlikely-mass-layoffs-2023-8?ref=wheresyoured.atBusiness InsiderAlex Kantrowitz and Douglas Gorman
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29“another tech fantasy”https://disconnect.blog/the-chatgpt-revolution-is-another/?ref=wheresyoured.atDisconnectParis Marx
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30Gary Marcus worried about generative AI being a dud in August 2023https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-if-generative-ai-turned-out?ref=wheresyoured.atGary MarcusGary Marcus
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31“if these chatbots are supposed to be magical, why are so many of them dumb as rocks?”https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/05/amazon-ai-chatbot-rufus-review/?ref=wheresyoured.atWashington PostShira Ovide
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32whether it's worth wringing our hands about how scary he ishttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/03/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley?ref=wheresyoured.atThe GuardianGary Marcus
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33non-profit for-profit monstrosityhttps://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-freed/Where's Your Ed AtEd Zitron
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34for an absenteeism that rankled his peers and some of the startups he was supposed to nurture.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-altman-fired-y-combinator-paul-graham/?ref=wheresyoured.atWashington PostElizabeth Dwoskin and Nitasha Tiku
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35which Google acquired in 2007https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/technology/14DoubleClick.html?ref=wheresyoured.atNew York Times Louise Story and Miguel Helft
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36which Google got when it acquired Applied Semantics in 2003https://digiday.com/media/today-in-history-google-buys-applied-semantics/?ref=wheresyoured.atDigiday
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37a coding language that Google inventedhttps://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article?ref=wheresyoured.atGo
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38thousands of miles of underground cableshttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/introducing-the-nuvem-subsea-cable?ref=wheresyoured.atGoogle
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39Google had over 30,000 ad sales people before its last round of layoffshttps://www.theverge.com/2024/1/16/24040093/google-layoffs-ad-sales-team?ref=wheresyoured.atThe VergeEmma Roth
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40While the Department of Justice did just declare that Google had a monopolyhttps://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24216708/google-lost-antitrust-elon-musk-sues-advertisersThe VergeAlex Cranz
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41recently described OpenAI as a competitor in the search businesshttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/31/microsoft-says-openai-is-now-a-competitor-in-ai-and-search.html?ref=wheresyoured.atCNBCJordan Novet
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42has been a profitable business since 2016https://qz.com/microsoft-spent-over-a-decade-on-the-new-bing-then-cha-1850146010?ref=wheresyoured.atQuartzMichelle Cheng
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43Anthropic is propped up by Google and Amazonhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/openai-rival-anthropic-defends-partnerships-with-amazon-google?ref=wheresyoured.atBloombergJackie Davalos and Brad Stone
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44to the point that Microsoft has already reported that it sees OpenAI as a competitorhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/solrashidi/2024/08/04/microsoft-says-openai-is-now-competitors/?ref=wheresyoured.atForbesSol Rashdi
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45to the freelancers who lost their jobshttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-replace-freelance-jobs-51807bc7?ref=wheresyoured.atWSJChristopher Mims
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46Moneyhttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?ref=wheresyoured.atWSJDeepa Seetharaman, Keach Hagey, Berber Jin and Kate Linebaugh
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47Powerhttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sam-altman-investments-004fc785?ref=wheresyoured.atWSJBerber Jin, Tom Dotan and Keach Hagey
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48difficult for me to write words with a penhttps://edzitron.medium.com/i-was-stupid-until-the-computer-came-along-5be54c7ba4ed?ref=wheresyoured.atMediumEd Zitron
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