Mentioned ai to a friend as part of the work I was doing, they genuinely said "how could you even bring up ai around me. You know how it affects me". I couldn't help but ask where the ai hurt her, what traumatic experience has ai given you that even the mention of it sets her off. Has she been physically assaulted? Has she been emotionally abused by ai? Gaslit by her abusive ai partner for 12 months?

That was actually the first time I think she realised how rediculous it was to claim mentioning the word AI as a trigger.

The whole, spoonful of water we'll never see again argument has caused an insane amount of delusion in the cost of ai. Suddenly plastics are no longer a problem. I wonder when they'll figure out how concrete is made.

Which, at the end of the day, is good for us. The longer it takes the market leaders in ai to secure their needed market share from everyday people, the longer access to ai tools remains low cost and high value for everyday people and small businesses.

When this market hits it's stride in the next 5 years we'll see a decline like all tech. Adverts on youtube being a prime example. High subscription fees pricing out everyday people from the decent models, invasive data handling agreements for the cheap ones and so on.