Speaker 1: Zo Media, Hello, and welcome to Better Offline. This is
Speaker 1: your monologue for the week, and I'm your host ed zeitron.
Speaker 1: So you've probably seen, or heard about, or even read
Speaker 1: the abominable, nonsensical hog slob essay called something Big is Coming,
Speaker 1: perhaps seeing people that should know better, like Mehdi has
Speaker 1: Sons who called it the most important thing you read today.
Speaker 1: Despite it being both AI generated and complete fucking nonsense,
Speaker 1: this essay has done the rounds because of its historyonic
Speaker 1: tone and deliberate leaning upon the anxieties of those scared
Speaker 1: of AI and the mythology of AI boosters, and across
Speaker 1: forty seven hundred b shit ass words, says very little
Speaker 1: new or interesting, along with multiple egregious lies. I will
Speaker 1: be attaching an annotated version of this essay to this monologue,
Speaker 1: but I want to give you a broad explanation of
Speaker 1: what it really says and why it's full of shit.
Speaker 1: But let's start with who wrote m that. Schumer is
Speaker 1: a guy who makes an AI startup called other Side Ai,
Speaker 1: which does this thing called hyperwrite, which is an AI
Speaker 1: writing assistant with web search and citations, which translates to
Speaker 1: mean it's a rapper for various large language models that
Speaker 1: he's prompting appropriately. When I asked it to write a
Speaker 1: critique of his piece, it's said that its weaknesses lied
Speaker 1: in its lack of specifics, and that its alarmist framing
Speaker 1: grabs attention, and it's heavy on the hype and light
Speaker 1: on actual insight. And you know what, Matt, you fucking
Speaker 1: You've got one innovation, and it's that even your shit
Speaker 1: ast lm rapper doesn't like your bullshit. And I think
Speaker 1: it's also being too kind. Schumer makes numerous egregious misstatements
Speaker 1: about the current state of AI, using vague yet scary
Speaker 1: statements like being able to walk away from the computer
Speaker 1: for hours and find his work done again. His company
Speaker 1: has done the same thing for years, although an unnamed
Speaker 1: managing partner at a big law firm uses AI for
Speaker 1: hours to do the work of a team of associates.
Speaker 1: I choose these two statements because they're fairly typical of
Speaker 1: his entire piece, entirely made up bullshit about how long
Speaker 1: an AI can work for what it's capable of doing.
Speaker 1: Schumer repeatedly talks about AI being able to write software
Speaker 1: completely autonomously in a way that could not be further
Speaker 1: from the truth. His most egregious one is when he
Speaker 1: quotes open ai saying that GPT five point three codex
Speaker 1: is the first model that was instrumental in creating itself
Speaker 1: because it used early versions to debug its own training,
Speaker 1: manage its own deployment, and diagnosed test results in evaluation.
Speaker 1: These are actual quotes from open ai. He's not lying
Speaker 1: they said them, he's just lying about what they mean.
Speaker 1: To be clear, this is open ai saying that he
Speaker 1: used an app it built to test and debug code,
Speaker 1: and to test and debug the actual code and how
Speaker 1: it went up.
Speaker 2: It's literally, it's what the product they used. They tested
Speaker 2: the product by testing what the product did. It's not
Speaker 2: the same as saying that software is designing itself, which
Speaker 2: is something that Schumer heavily intimates is happening throughout the piece,
Speaker 2: which it is not. He also suggests multiple times that
Speaker 2: AI is learning from itself, which is not. Barely keeping
Speaker 2: my cool on this one because it's so fucking frustrate
Speaker 2: seeing how many people I saw Fortune repost this, I
Speaker 2: saw Business Insider do a post fucking the Technology Brothers. Well, well, well,
Speaker 2: if it isn't the technology Brothers, they had this fuck
Speaker 2: not on it genuinely infuriates me, and most of the
Speaker 2: scary stuff in there. That all software engineers will be
Speaker 2: replace the fifty percent of entry level white collar jobs
Speaker 2: be gone.
Speaker 1: In one to five years. Is Schumer directly copy pasting
Speaker 1: stuff that CEO of Anthropic Warrio Amade said in one
Speaker 1: of his many interviews where he makes shit up. I
Speaker 1: am begging people to please God engage with basic critical thinking.
Speaker 1: When reading things like this, Schumer says a lot of
Speaker 1: vague marketing fluff. Each generation builds the next, which is smarter,
Speaker 1: which builds the next faster, which is smarter. Still, this
Speaker 1: is written specifically to make you believe that this is
Speaker 1: actually happening when it is not. It isn't. The generation
Speaker 1: is not building the next. There are still people doing this.
Speaker 1: He doesn't cite anything, He doesn't even bother to choose
Speaker 1: real life examples. He just says stuff like AI is
Speaker 1: approaching or exceeding human performance in several areas of medicine
Speaker 1: or without citation, Well, I've got a citation for you.
Speaker 1: On September fifth, twenty twenty four, Matt Schumer released a
Speaker 1: model called Reflection seventy B that he claimed had benchmarks
Speaker 1: that made it and I quote, the world's top open
Speaker 1: source AI model built with something called glave AI. Independent
Speaker 1: researchers were unable to recreate the benchmarks, and it became
Speaker 1: obvious that Schumer was a lying sack of shit and
Speaker 1: the reflection seventy b was a rapper for anthropics claude
Speaker 1: sonnet model, with one person posting that they had intentionally
Speaker 1: made it so that it would not respond to being
Speaker 1: called Claude or say that it was Claude. He also
Speaker 1: didn't reveal that he was an investor in GLAVEI, the
Speaker 1: platform that generated the synthetic data that allegedly trained this
Speaker 1: shitass model that does not work, did not work, never updated,
Speaker 1: never did anything it said, and everyone just memory hold it.
Speaker 1: And what horrified me about this essay is how many
Speaker 1: top tier media outlets and respectable journalists took it as
Speaker 1: gospel because the statements he made vaguely lined up with
Speaker 1: the empty high of scumbacks like Sam Altman and Dario
Speaker 1: Amma Day. If you're a member of the media that
Speaker 1: share to republish this, you are actively participating in an
Speaker 1: act of disinformation and you should be fucking ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 1: Fuck Matt Schumer and fuck anybody who takes them seriously.
Speaker 1: Regular people got scared because of this because mainstream media
Speaker 1: validated it. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. And
Speaker 1: to the many haters that emailed me about this saying
Speaker 1: this looks like bullshit, you were correct. These people are
Speaker 1: deceiving you. They are misleading you so that they can
Speaker 1: sell AI software that they know is not doing the
Speaker 1: things it needs to to make any of this make sense.
Speaker 1: And I am disgusted to see this keep happening. I
Speaker 1: am disgusted to see people like this platformed. And I
Speaker 1: think when all of this ends, people think that I
Speaker 1: will forget. I will not forget any of this. I
Speaker 1: am taking fucking detailed notes of everybody who pushes this
Speaker 1: shit up hill. I am furious. I'm disgusted to see this.
Speaker 1: Sixty million fucking views on this bullshit. And I know
Speaker 1: there are some people who don't like when I get angry,
Speaker 1: but I am furious about this. This is lies, This
Speaker 1: is platforming lies. Anyone in the media who platform this,
Speaker 1: you need to, I don't know, think about whether you're
Speaker 1: capable of doing your jobs every day, because you seem
Speaker 1: to lack the critical thinking to spot a scam artist. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done everyone. I'm sorry for flying off
Speaker 1: the handle a little