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[17]Edward Zitron Feb 19, 2024 15 min read
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Last week,[18] Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model
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that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how[19] OpenAI's
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DALL-E turns text into images. These videos — which are usually no more than 60
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seconds long — can at times seem impressive, until you notice a little detail
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that breaks the entire facade, like[20] in this video where a cat wakes up its
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owner, but the owner's arm appears to be part of the cushion and the cat's paw
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explodes out of its arm like an amoeba. Reactions to Sora's AI generated videos
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— and, indeed, the existence of the model itself — have ranged from breathless
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hype to outright fear that this will be used to replace video producers, in
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that it can created reality-adjacent videos that for a few seconds seem
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remarkably real, especially in the case of[21] some of OpenAI's demo videos.
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However, even in OpenAI's own hand-picked Sora outputs you'll find weird little
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things that shatter the illusion, where[22] a woman's legs awkwardly shuffle
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then somehow switch sides as she walks (30 seconds) or[23] blobs of people
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merge into each other. These are, on some level, remarkable technological
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achievements, until you consider what they are for and what they might do — a
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problem that seems to run through the fabric of AI.
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We're just over a year into the existence (and proliferation) of ChatGPT,
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DALL-E, and other image generators, and despite the obvious (and reasonable)
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fear that these products will continue to erode the foundations of the already
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unstable economies of the creative arts, we keep running into the problem that
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these things are interesting, surprising, but not particularly useful for
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anything.
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Sora's outputs can mimic real-life objects in a genuinely chilling way, but its
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outputs — like DALL-E, like ChatGPT — are marred by the fact that these models
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do not actually know anything.[24] They do not know how many arms a monkey has,
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as these models do not "know" anything. Sora generates responses based on the
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data that it has been trained upon, which results in content that is reality-
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adjacent, but not actually realistic. This is why, despite shoveling billions
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of dollars and likely petabytes of data into their models, generative AI models
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still fail to get the basic details of images right,[25] like fingers or eyes,
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or tools.
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These models are not saying "I shall now draw a monkey," they are saying "I
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have been asked for something called a monkey, I will now draw on my dataset to
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generate what is most likely a monkey." These things are not "learning," or
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"understanding," or even "intelligent" — they're giant math machines that,
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while impressive at first, can never assail the limits of a technology that
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doesn't actually know anything.
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Despite what fantasists may tell you, these are not "kinks" to work out of
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artificial intelligence models — these are the hard limits, the restraints that
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come when you try to mimic knowledge with mathematics. You cannot "fix"
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hallucinations (the times when a model authoritatively tells you something that
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isn't true, or creates a picture of something that isn't right), because these
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models are predicting things based off of tags in a dataset, which it might be
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able to do well but can never do so flawlessly or reliably.
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This is a problem that dramatically limits how much one can rely on generative
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AI, and it's one that compounds severely with the complexity of what you're
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asking it to do. Words can be copy-pasted and edited, and citations can be
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checked. Images, however, are much tougher to edit, and videos are an entirely
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different beast, especially if you're generating lifelike humans or animals.
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While Sora is interesting and potentially quite scary to filmmakers, it's
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important to consider some practical questions, like "how can someone actually
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make something useful out of this?" and "how do I get this model to do the same
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thing every time without fail?" While an error in a 30-second-long clip might
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be something you might miss, once you see one of these strange visual
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hallucinations it's impossible to ignore them. The assumption is that audiences
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are stupid, and ignorant, and "just won't care," and I firmly disagree — I
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think regular people will find this stuff deeply offensive.
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I believe artificial intelligence companies deeply underestimate how perfect
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the things around us are, and how deeply we base our understanding and
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acceptance of the world on knowledge and context. People generally have four
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fingers and a thumb on each hand, hammers have a handle made of wood and a head
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made of metal, and monkeys have two legs and two arms. The text on the sign of
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a store generally has a name and a series of words that describe it, or perhaps
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its address and phone number.
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These are simple concepts that we learn from the people and places we see as we
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grow up, and what's very, very important to remember is that these are not
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concepts that artificial intelligence models are aware of. When they see 20,000
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pictures with signs in them, they understand that signs look a certain way, and
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have some stuff on them, and then generate what's on the sign based on a user's
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request and their dataset's tags that match that request. Even when a model is
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fed exactly how a sign should be spelled out, it doesn't actually understand
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what that information means or how it should be used, because the instructions
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you are giving are based on your knowledge of signs and their contents, and the
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model has no knowledge of any kind.
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[26]AI fanatics are currently fantasizing over a world where they can put a few
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sentences into a prompt and create an entire series of TV, unable to realize
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that we are rapidly approaching the top of generative AI's[27] S-curve, where
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after a period of rapid growth things begin to slow down dramatically. While
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Sora and[28] other video generators like Pika may seem like the future (and are
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capable of some impressive magic tricks), they are not particularly adept —
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much like a lot of generative AI — at performing a particular task. Once you
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get past the idea that you can now generate an almost-useful video that lasts
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roughly a minute, one must consider the practical applications of this kind of
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product. Even Microsoft struggled to find compelling use cases for their $7m AI
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Superbowl commercial, and these use cases are even narrower once you realize
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that generative video is so much more restrained by its hallucinations. Where
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will Sora be useful?
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Even if the costs weren't prohibitive, one cannot make a watchable movie, TV
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show, or even commercial out of outputs that aren't consistent from clip to
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clip, as even the smallest errors are outright repulsive to viewers. And as
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I've suggested above, while these models might "improve," the billions of
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dollars burned by OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI's models have found few
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ways to mitigate the restrictions of an artificial intelligence that doesn't
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have an intellect. I am also completely out of patience when it comes to being
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told what it "will do" in the future.
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Generative AI's greatest threat is that it is capable of creating a certain
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kind of bland, generic content very quickly and cheaply. As I discussed in my
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last newsletter, media entities are increasingly normalizing their content to
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please search engine algorithms, and the jobs that involve pooling affiliate
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links and answering where you can watch the Super Bowl are very much at risk.
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The normalization of journalism — the consistent point to which many outlets
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decide to write about the exact same thing — is a weak point that makes every
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outlet "[29]exploring AI" that bit more scary, but the inevitable outcome is
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that these models are not reliable enough to actually replace anyone, and those
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that have experimented with doing so[30] have found themselves deeply
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embarrassed.
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Despite the frothy tales and visions of how generative artificial intelligence
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will automate our entire existence, there's a distinct lack of practical
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outputs that suggest that it is even capable of doing so. ChatGPT can spin up
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piles of anodyne business copy, yet its outputs always require enough editing
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that it's questionable how much time you've actually saved. Generative image
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models are capable of creating cool-looking images that can replace generic
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images that you might use in a project, but no matter how many different
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prompts you use, they all kind of look the same, and that's even before you
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notice how the minute details look off. Is a product that can only
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sort-of-kind-of do something[31] really going to create trillions of dollars of
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economic value?
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I don't argue it will, at least not in such a way that anybody's lives will be
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improved.
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Shell Games
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I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do[32]
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and how accurate its outputs can be, and I believe that once reality catches up
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with artificial intelligence's marketing, there will be a dramatic knock-on
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effect that savages the entire tech industry.[33] A Wall Street Journal article
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from mid-February told a worrying tale of OpenAI and Anthropic — the two
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largest AI companies — racing to sell their generative AI systems despite the
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prevalence of hallucinations, and how few answers they had for applications
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that were highly regulated or dealt with highly sensitive data. When pressed on
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the issue at a conference, Anthropic's Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan was
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only able to come up with one idea — that it would make a model capable of
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saying "I don't know" to an answer, which in turn would create a situation
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where the AI would err on the side of caution, restricting its willingness to
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answer prompts at all.
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The Journal seems unalarmed about multi-billion-dollar companies having very
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few answers about the critical problem with their core product, but I'd argue
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that a generative AI's inability to reliably generate stuff is an existential
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threat that should have smothered these companies early in their lives.
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And there are so many stories about how unreliable this technology is.[34]
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British delivery firm DPD recently had to shut down their generative support
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chatbot after a customer convinced it to write an insulting poem about the
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company.[35] A Chevy dealership's ChatGPT-powered virtual assistant ended up
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offering to sell a user a car for a dollar, and wrote a python script for
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another.[36] Fortune reported a researcher's study into Large Language Models'
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ability to understand SEC filings and found that many of them were regularly
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either unable to answer or hallucinating incorrect information, with Meta's
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Llama2 model getting 70% of the study's questions wrong.[37] A deeply foolish
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lawyer relied on ChatGPT to cite cases in a motion, only to find that it cited
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several non-existent pieces of case law. That lawyer — Steven A. Schwartz — was
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fined $5,000 and ordered to i[38]nform each judge incorrectly cited as the
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author of a non-existent verdict in the motion. In June of last year, OpenAI
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was [39]sued for defamation in Georgia by a radio host who claimed that ChatGPT
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generated a false legal complaint that accused him of embezzling money.
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Microsoft destroyed MSN.com — a page that gets nearly two billion viewers a
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month — by replacing its human staff with an artificial intelligence that[40]
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posts made up stories about bigfoot and[41] stealing other outlets' stories and
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still getting the details wrong.
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It's also fair to question how many organizations are actually using it.[42] A
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McKinsey report from August 2023 says that 55% of respondents' organizations
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have adopted AI, yet only 23% of said respondents said that more than 5% of
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their Earnings Before Interest (EBIT) was attributable to to their use of AI —
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a similar number to their 2022 report, one which was published before
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generative AI was widely available. In plain English, this means that while
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generative AI is being shoved into plenty of places, it doesn't seem to be
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generating organizations money.
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There are indications that consumers have also lost interest. As [43]pointed
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out by Alex Kantrowitz’ Big Technology newsletter, traffic to ChatGPT on both
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mobile and web has started to stagnate, if not decline. In January 2024,
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ChatGPT had 1.6 billion visits — 11% below the all-time peak of 1.8 billion.
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This makes it only modestly more popular than Bing, which had 1.3 billion
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unique visits during that period. On the mobile front, ChatGPT has an estimated
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6.3 million US users — or 1.7 times less than the total of new Snapchat users
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added during Q4 2023.
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Tech's largest cash cow since the cloud computing boom of the 2000s is based on
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a technology that is impossibly unreliable, a technology with a potent inverted
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Midas touch that burns far more money than it makes.[44] According to The
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Information, OpenAI made around $1.6 billion in revenue in 2023, and[45]
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competitor Anthropic made $100 million, with the expectation they'd make $850
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million in 2024. What these stories don't seem to discuss are whether these
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companies are making a profit, likely because generative AI is a deeply
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unprofitable product, demanding massive amounts of cloud computing power to the
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point that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to raise[46] seven trillion dollars
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to build chips to bring the costs down — though reports suggest that "the
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figure represents the sum total of investments that participants in such a
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venture round would need to make," which is basically the same thing. It’s
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also, incidentally, a greater sum than the GDPs of France and the United
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Kingdom combined.
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While it's hard to tell precisely how much it’s losing, The Information[47]
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reported in mid-2023 that OpenAI's losses "doubled" in 2022 to $540 million as
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it developed ChatGPT, at a time when it wasn’t quite so demanding of cloud
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computing resources.[48] Reports suggest that artificial intelligence companies
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have worse margins than most software startups due to the vast cost of building
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and maintaining their models, with gross margins in the 50-55% range — meaning
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the money that it actually makes after incurring direct costs like power and
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cloud compute. This figure is way below the 75-90% that modern software
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companies have. In practical terms, this means that the raw infrastructure
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firms — the companies that allow startups to integrate AI in the first place —
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are not particularly healthy businesses, and they're taking home far less of
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their money as actual revenue.
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Luckily for them, Anthropic and OpenAI aren't really at risk, because they've
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taken on an important part of the tech ecosystem — they're the tail of a very
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hungry snake.
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Turning On The Screw
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During the imaginary panic of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI last year,[49]
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Semafor reported that Microsoft's $10 billion investment was largely made up of
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credits for their Azure cloud computing platform. In essence, Microsoft
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"invested" $10 billion in money that OpenAI had to spend on Microsoft's
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services, meaning that OpenAI would have to use Microsoft's "Azure" cloud
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computing service to run ChatGPT.[50] When Google invested $2 billion in OpenAI
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competitor Anthropic, it did so in tranches — $500 million up front and an
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additional $1.5 billion over a non-specific period of time. Coincidentally,
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this funding round took place only a few months after[51] Anthropic signed a
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multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth $3 billion, locking them into Google's
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compute platform in the process.[52] Amazon also invested $4 billion in
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Anthropic, who agreed to a "long-term commitment" to provide Amazon Web
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Services (Amazon's competitor to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) with early
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access to their models — and Anthropic access to Amazon's AI-focused chips.
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While Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have technically "invested" in these
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companies, they've really created guaranteed revenue streams, investing money
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to create customers that are effectively obliged to spend their investment
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dollars on their own services. As the use of artificial intelligence grows, so
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do these revenue streams, forcing almost every single dollar spent on AI into
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the hands of a few trillion-dollar tech firms.
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It's a contrived process with a fairly simple revenue stream.
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In the case of an AI company (or a business that has jumped upon the AI
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bandwagon), their website or app is integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT or
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Anthropic's Claude via their APIs. The company pays on a[53] per-token basis
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for each input (request they make through their software) and output (thing
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that the model does as a result). When these requests are made, ChatGPT,
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Claude, or whatever model has to compute the result, which it does using
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massive amounts of cloud computing — which is bought from the cloud provider
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(say, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud). As a result, every interaction with
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ChatGPT or Claude is, on some level, guaranteed revenue for one of the big tech
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firms. These were investments in the sense that money changed hands, but while
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it did so, big tech put giant handcuffs on the wrists of the AI companies that
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every startup has to use.
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Admittedly, you could argue that the same situation is true for the
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conventional Internet. Most websites are hosted by a third-party cloud
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provider. If you visit a site that uses an external company to implement
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functionality that would otherwise be too complicated to build themselves (like
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auth, or payment processing, or banking integrations), it’s a sure bet those
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companies are using Amazon, Microsoft, or Google for hosting. And so, without
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even realizing it, our online activity benefits a handful of already-powerful
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companies. The key difference is that, for the most part, people aren’t
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locked-in and can walk, either to one of the other big players, or to a smaller
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vendor like Rackspace or Linode. Moreover, the scale is different, and serving
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a webpage will always cost less than processing a request sent to a generative
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AI model.
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These golden handcuffs have already led to massive swells of revenue for
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Microsoft,[54] increasing by 30% in the last quarter alone thanks to the
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increased usage of graphics processing units (GPUs) which have become essential
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to the power-hungry demands of AI applications. Google's investment in
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Anthropic was made in the hopes that it’d see a similar revenue multiplier, and
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I'd argue Amazon's was made in the same vein — though it was too late to force
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Anthropic to use AWS as their preferred vendor.
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Big tech has turned the startup ecosystem into a giant goldmine, one that
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guarantees that almost every dollar spent on any AI product is eventually
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shared with one of a few multi-trillion dollar tech firms. And on some level,
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it's become the savior of an ecosystem that hasn't had a new revenue-driving
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industrial boondoggle this exciting since the Software-As-A-Service boom of the
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2010s. Some might argue this is a situation where everybody wins — startups get
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funded because they're able to do new things, venture capitalists make money
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because their startups can actually get acquired or go public, and big tech
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makes money because everybody is forced to pay them even more money by proxy.
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I, however, have grave concerns.
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As it stands, generative AI (and AI in general) may have some use. Yet even
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with thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment, and trillions
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of tokens run through various large language models, there are no essential
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artificial intelligence use cases, and no killer apps outside of[55]
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non-generative assistants like Alexa that are now having generative AI forced
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into them for no apparent reason. I consider myself relatively tuned into the
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tech ecosystem, and I read every single tech publication regularly, yet I'm
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struggling to point to anything that generative AI has done other than reignite
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the flames of venture capital. There are cool little app integrations,[56]
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interesting things like live translation in Samsung devices, but these are
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features, not applications. And if there are true industry-changing
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possibilities waiting for us on the other side, I am yet to hear them outside
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of the fan fiction of Silicon Valley hucksters.
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This entire hype cycle feels specious, though not quite as specious as the
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metaverse or cryptocurrency boom. Public companies are pumping their valuations
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and executive salaries off the back of artificial intelligence hype, yet nobody
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is saying the blatantly obvious — that this industry is deeply unprofitable and
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yet to prove its worth.[57] Artificial intelligence is so demanding of
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computing power that it may need as much electricity as an entire country,[58]
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Microsoft and[59] Amazon are both investing billions to build even more data
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centers to capture demand for an unproven product, and[60] Sam Altman of OpenAI
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has said that the future of AI relies on an "energy breakthrough."
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This industry is money-hungry, energy-hungry, and compute-hungry, yet it
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doesn't seem to be doing anything to sustain these otherworldly financial and
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infrastructural demands, other than the fact that people keep saying that
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"artificial intelligence is the future." And[61] while some claim that AI can
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help fight climate change, it's impossible to argue that "suddenly using more
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and more power for a negligible return" is good for the environment.
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And if this wasn't already worrying enough, one has to wonder what happens if
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we face another economic panic, or if the hype dies down before OpenAI or
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Anthropic discover a way to make a profit. As it stands, OpenAI and Anthropic
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are heavily dependent on companies believing that they have to integrate AI
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into their products, which will require these companies to be able to find ways
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to integrate AI that users actually care about. And even if they manage to do
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that, will they do so in a way that actually turns a profit?
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If AI startups — by which I mean those companies integrating these models into
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their apps — begin to falter, so will the only real revenue stream that these
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companies have, making them more dependent on big tech to keep them alive. This
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situation is only made more problematic by the fact that these models are
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unprofitable, and Altman's desperation for a new chip company or energy
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breakthrough suggests that they'll only become more unprofitable as they
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generate more revenue.
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I hope I am wrong. I hope that the bottom doesn't fall out of AI, and that the
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startup ecosystem grows, and that this all becomes profitable and that
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everything will be fine.
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As it stands, I am terrified by how unstable this situation is and astonished
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at how brazenly money and energy is being burned in pursuit of an unsustainable
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future where big tech exerts more power over fledgling companies, and how
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despite multiple industry collapses hinged upon unsustainable and unprofitable
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businesses, Silicon Valley seems incapable of learning a single lesson.
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