The worst situation is for underdeveloped countries (that have access to the Internet).
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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The broligarchs must be positively giddy at the prospect of a generation of Americans who are entirely unable to even form a coherent thought.
Why muck about with all the complications of trying to force people into the peasant role of neo-feudalism when you can just destroy public education and gatekeep knowledge and create a populace too dull-witted to envision anything else?
Yikes, sounds absolutely like a desperate play to maintain relevance. AI is already hemorrhaging money...It would be nice if they could leave teachers and kids alone. These AI chuds need to fail off in the distance without causing any more issues.
Steamrolling schools is from the Microsoft Playbook. They started this with their abysmal products 2 decades ago. I happen to know this because I worked in school IT for 10 years. Giving away your software to the underpaid education system presented two major advantages: bind the young ones to your environment while showing state officials how much your business is "interested in education". And make lot's of money by fooling every decision maker in the process. It's a dirty play and I saw some very nasty deals, very close to corruption. Apple does this as well, handing out tablets left and right. And now we will get a package with ChatGPT, fantastic.
School IT, eh? My SO did that for a long time, too. No shortage of horror stories on that beat, hope you're in a happier position now!
Thank you, I am. Ditching IT completely was a very wise decision.
Yeah, Microsoft's dirty plays and nasty deals are the only way they'll get ahead; as there are so many reasonable tech-savvy people who angrily use Windows, but could never enjoy it or recommend it. There are those like me who installed Linux and never looked back at the Broken Window OS that is getting crammed with total AI nonsense; Microsoft has gone 1000% off the rails, only trying to please their shareholders with things that fundamentally destroy consumer trust.
They have to prep the youth of the future to learn to tolerate such a miasmic OS that doesn't respect users in the slightest. Just like Apple does, because their continued success relies on school children enjoying their operating systems and not discovering that alternatives (like Linux) exist.
I can’t wait for the bubble to pop and VC Money to dry up because the only thing keeping OpenAI from drowning in their hundreds of millions of dollars in losses are investors giving them money.
hundreds of millions of dollars
Billions of dollars. It is actually insane
I don’t know what kind of insane person keeps giving them money. It reminds me of the 2000 tech bubble on steroids, giving money to companies who don’t even have a solid path to profitability.
Even scarier is what if these investments all pay off
A solution in search of a problem
Khan Academy's had ChatGPT (Khanmigo) baked into it for nearly three years.
openai desperately needs people to buy thier services, because they are losing money. apparently ALTMAN met his husband through PETER thiel at one of thier "get to gethers"