Thread by @FoldableHuman

I'm not doing an AI video because I promised myself no more moving targets, but this would be the thrust of a big chunk of it: there's a real good chance generative AI is just too damn expensive for a product that's rapidly displaying its fragility.

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1781425444732223961

Also, like, for ChatGPT, every day on Reddit I see the dumbest people you know spam it with inane nonsense until it gives them the answer they want, and that behaviour just isn't sustainable at scale given the compute cost of every query.

I experimented with various generative art tools during the winter to get a sense of the user experience & what this stuff actually does and almost instantly I found myself coming up with a prompt and just recycling it 20, 30, 40, 50 times until it gave me something... tolerable?

That's just the behaviour that these systems are designed to elicit in users, which is fine if it's the Elden Ring character creator, not so good if every roll of the plagiarism machine costs a dollar.

Like, if you cheapen the process of creation to "just tell the machine to make it for you" then users aren't going to suddenly treat the operating cost of your unseen server farm with reverence. They're gonna treat it like a slot machine that they pull on until dopamine comes out

So these expensive, inefficient systems are also up against *wildly* inefficient user behaviour, which massively compounds the issue.