How should media cover A.I. and the tech companies that have hitched their wagons to it? Ed Zitron says

Ed Zitron is one of the internet’s most popular A.I. skeptics.

He says media coverage of the tech sector should be more skeptical of the industry's embrace of artificial intelligence.

He thinks the media is too quick to accept that it's already proven and powerful because of money.

We are years into generative A.I. but where is the horizontal enablement? Where is the thing it’s enabling? Show me one thing which you use that you go, “Oh, damn, I’m so glad I have this.” Nobody using ChatGPT can pretend that this is the future. Basic utility isn’t there.

We’re being told, “Oh, this automation’s gonna change our lives.” Our lives aren’t really being changed, other than our power grids being strained, our things being stolen, and some jobs being replaced. Freelancers, especially artists and content creators, are seeing their things replaced with a much, much shittier version.