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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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Thanks for that. I'm not sure where I got the idea. It was from the early 70s.
I bet we could find some story in the New Wave of science fiction that presaged influencers. Bug Jack Barron comes close (though it's about a talk show host).
I'm a little skeptical of the idea that science fiction predicts things, tho. If you have a million stories out there, one of them's bound to resemble whatever you're claiming it predicted.