The Case Against Generative AI

Across four consecutive parts, Zitron attacks the story that generative AI straightforwardly replaces labor, that demand justifies the compute buildout, that software engineering is on the verge of disappearing, and that the largest companies can finance the projected costs indefinitely.

This is the collection’s main prosecution brief. It belongs beside optimistic accounts because confidence improves when it has survived somebody trying very hard to ruin it.