I love Haiku but I feel it's quite different than where BeOS would be today had BeOS continued to exist. In that alternative world there might have been considerably more influence from BeOS going into the rest of the industry much sooner, and that effect could have snowballed.

The use case for AI is, was and always will be spam.

The use case for AI is spam

Don't forget porn.

Though it's a use case people like Satya will want to avoid for reasons.

"Why d'you think the net was born? Porn, Porn, Porn"

Adult conversation mode is just the start.

spam implies low effort BS used in a low-hanging-fruit sense

LLMs will be used for aggressive, yet incredibly subtle manipulation, consensus building, and response tracking.

20-40% of social media is already bots, and in the future it is likely you will not be able to reply to anything anywhere without a bot either 1) responding, or 2) logging and sending your response to multiple parties instantly.

If the Stasi had LLMs the Berlin Wall would have never fallen

This comment speaks the truth, yet HN doesn't want to hear it.

There's a reason SBF was arrested and tried within a year while other complex financial fraud cases take years to get a conviction.

Dec 11, 2008: Madoff arrested; scheme revealed.

March 12, 2009: Madoff pleads guilty to 11 federal felonies.

June 29, 2009: Sentenced to 150 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $17.179 billion.

In Madoff's case, he confessed to his sons. So again, this was a case of an insider having the goods, not the result of a speedy investigation.

Your timeline is correct, but once Madoff was confronted he just confessed and everything moved forward.

I mean yeah Madoff confessed and made the case open and shut.

SBF entered a Not Guilty plea but Ellison for all intents and purposes entered a Guilty plea on his behalf with her co-operation.

She also had no choice, as SBF was blaming her. The point being that they still didn't really need her help. It was obvious that he committed fraud, and there was plenty of proof of it.

I wonder what this means for DC Comics and the current crop of DC films. Will Netflix prefer to start with a clean slate?

The use case for AI is spam.

It's the reverse printing press, drowning all purposeful human communication in noise.

Another major use case for it is enabling students to more easily cheat on their homework. Which is why it is probably going to end up putting Chegg out of business.

I am shocked when I talk to college kids about AI these days.

I try to explain stuff to them like regurgitating the training data, context window limits, and confabulation.

They stick their fingers in their ears and say "LA LA LA LA it does my homework for me nothing else matters LA LA LA LA i can't hear you"

They really do not care about the Turing Test. Today's LLMs pass the "snowed my teaching assistant test" and nothing else matters.

Academic fraud really is the killer app for this technology. At least if you're a 19-year-old.

These kids are only in school to get a meal ticket to white-collar job interviews. AI frees them to be honest about their intentions, rather than pretend for long enough to stumble their way into learning something.

Maybe AI will finally skewer the myth that an undergraduate degree means anything.

AI brought “let someone else do it for you” cheating to the middle class, no longer the domain of wealthy flunkies.

British Airways as well. N

The use case for AI is spam.

> I assumed, like President said, that it will be China, not me, who pays the tariffs. I was very much wrong.

How do you run a business that relies on imports and not know how tariffs work?

Because America is rich and they like to buy things.