The Profit Motive: AI’s Latest Con

Well, ainkeys, another day, another genius in a lab coat tells us what we already goddamn knew. Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called “Godfather of AI,” has apparently just discovered that when you give capitalists a shiny new toy that can do the work of ten men, they’re not gonna start a goddamn soup kitchen. They’re gonna fire those ten men and pocket the difference. Who the fuck could have seen that coming? It’s like a drunkard realizing a shot of whiskey makes him…drunk. Fucking profound, ain’t it?

The “Amazing” Future, My Ass

Hinton’s out there, bleating about how we’re at a point in history where “something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad.” Oh, is that right, professor? “Amazingly good” for the cocksucker who owns the algorithms and “amazingly bad” for the poor bastards whose jobs just evaporated faster than a whore’s virtue in a gold rush. It’s not some grand philosophical quandary, it’s just the same old fucking song and dance. Always has been. The rich get richer, and the rest of us get to chew on their fucking dust.

He then goes on to blame “the capitalist system,” as if this AI bullshit is some innocent, virginal technology that just got corrupted by the cruel world. Give me a break. This technology wasn’t born in a goddamn vacuum. It was funded by the same greasy hands that love watching the profit margins climb like a goddamn mountain goat on steroids. You build a better mousetrap, you don’t give the mice a goddamn free ride. You sell that shit, and if it puts the trap-setter out of business, well, tough titties.

The Inevitable Reckoning (For Us, Not Them)

So, what’s the big revelation here? That AI will create “massive unemployment” and send “profits soaring”? Holy shit, someone call the goddamn newspapers! This is groundbreaking! It’s not the technology’s fault, he says. No, of course not. It’s never the tool’s fault when you smash a man’s skull in with it, it’s the hand holding the hammer. But the hand holding this particular hammer is wearing a diamond goddamn ring, and it’s counting its fucking money.

These tech evangelists, these self-proclaimed prophets of the digital age, they’re all the same. They invent something, watch it turn into a money-printing machine, and then throw their hands up in mock despair when the consequences hit the working man like a goddamn mule kick to the head. They’ll offer platitudes and talk about “retraining” and “universal basic income” – all just fancy ways of saying, “Here’s a goddamn bone, now don’t complain too much while we count our billions.”

The Future Ain’t Pretty, So What’s New?

So, what’s the upshot? More layoffs, more money for the suits, and more hot air from the eggheads who pretend to be surprised by it all. The “Godfather of AI” is just another voice in the goddamn choir, singing the same tired tune. Don’t expect any goddamn miracles from these silicon saviors, because all they’re really doing is sharpening the fucking knife. And guess whose throat it’s pointed at? Not theirs, you can bet your last goddamn nickel on that.

It’s a fucked-up world, always has been, and this AI shit just gives the bastards a new way to fuck us over. So, next time you hear one of these so-called visionaries talk about the amazing future, just remember: amazing for who, you goddamn ignorant whoresons? Amazing for who?