"The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent [View all]

back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain."

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

— tante (@tante.cc) 2026-03-12T21:08:48.584Z

Tante is followed on Bluesky by Gary Marcus, Gil Duran, Garrett Graff and Brian Merchant, among people I also follow.


Link to a Gizmodo article about Sam Altman making that statement:

Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He’s Just the Man to Collect the Bills
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills-2000732953


Some of the replies to Tante's post on Bluesky:

They saw that the web can be a global network of information and knowledge at nominal cost 24/7 because distribution is incredibly cheap, and they absolutely hated it.
They can't create anything of value, so they curate what other people make, drown everything else and charge for their "service".

In all the Idiocracy discourse, we focused too much on how ridiculous it was that society would become so stupid so quickly, and we never stopped to think that an entire trillion-dollar industry would arise and build their business model around *making* society that stupid, that quickly.

It isn't just de-skilling. They're foisting this on kids and destroying their critical thinking ability before it even has a chance to fully form.

They steal other peoples data, ideas, writing, art, personal images and voices, etc. etc. basically everything on the internet and then some and then they turn around and want us to pay them for it on a meter.

"Look we just want to rule over uneducated serfs as a godking forevercaste, is that so wrong?"