Quoting Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel argues AI products are insufficient to justify their high costs, citing data center noise, deepfakes, and unproven agents. He claims companies spend more than they earn, linking industry influence to political corruption. Patel says the industry must create clearly beneficial products to regain trust.
Key signals
- 01AI products lack value relative to their environmental and financial costs.
- 02Companies spend more on AI than they generate in revenue.
- 03Political ties suggest corruption; better products needed to restore credibility.
Quoting Nilay Patel, published by Simon Willison.
The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history. It's not worth it. It just isn't worth it to…
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