WEBVTT - Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History

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<v Speaker 1>Z Media hellyone, Welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host ed Zetron. Sorry I missed last week's

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<v Speaker 1>monologue everyone, I was sick, and in truth, I'm still

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<v Speaker 1>kind of sick, but the work is important. I also

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<v Speaker 1>want to thank all of you have sent very kind

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<v Speaker 1>words via the email inbox and they've read it. I

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<v Speaker 1>really do appreciate you so much, and actually that's a

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<v Speaker 1>good place to start. Everything's rough. As you know, you've

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<v Speaker 1>seen everything, the horrors are many. Remember to be there

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<v Speaker 1>for the people close to you, and as isolated as

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<v Speaker 1>the world might make you feel right now, there are

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<v Speaker 1>millions of people feeling exactly like you. Our subreddit, our

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<v Speaker 1>slash Better Offline is a great place to start, as

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<v Speaker 1>I assure you that if you feel that isolation, the castigation,

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<v Speaker 1>the irritation by the push to put ai and everything,

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<v Speaker 1>you are anything but alone. We are feeling it. I'll

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<v Speaker 1>admit I've been kind of reeling myself. I've had family

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<v Speaker 1>stuff to take care of, all while being sick for

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<v Speaker 1>the best part of what is now three weeks. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's tough to take a break when you have

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<v Speaker 1>so much to do, especially when the stuff you have

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<v Speaker 1>to do involves keeping up with the current events, and motherfucker,

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<v Speaker 1>we are in an event heavy era. I missed the

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<v Speaker 1>premium newsletter for the first time in months. In a

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<v Speaker 1>monologue for the first time since we started doing them,

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<v Speaker 1>felt guilty, which is ridiculous. You'll all tell me off

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<v Speaker 1>for saying it, But this show is built on sincerity,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm going to say anyway, So give yourself a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of a break. Everything is fucking rough, not

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<v Speaker 1>me though, not taking one of those don't get those now.

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<v Speaker 1>As I wrote in this week's newsletter, which I called

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<v Speaker 1>the beginning of History, things appear to be reaching a

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<v Speaker 1>breaking point. Let's catch up. A few weeks ago, Anthropic

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<v Speaker 1>and the Department of Defense got in an argument because

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<v Speaker 1>Anthropic wouldn't allow them to use Claude for domestic mass

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<v Speaker 1>surveillance or to control autonomous weapons, the former of which

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<v Speaker 1>is a stretch of what an MS can do, in

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<v Speaker 1>the latter of which is totally out of their capabilities.

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<v Speaker 1>As a result of this flimsy defiance, Anthropic was designated

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<v Speaker 1>a supply chain risk by the Department of Defense. This

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<v Speaker 1>immediately led to a depressing amount of people doing bullshit

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<v Speaker 1>we stand with Xanthropic Jesui Claude commentary suggesting that this

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<v Speaker 1>company was in any way ethically opposed to blowing things up.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me be blunt about how wrong you are if

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<v Speaker 1>you think this way. Anthropics Claude LLM was used in

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<v Speaker 1>the war in Iran. It isn't clear how, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>more than likely it was handled a bunch of data coordinates, images, targets,

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<v Speaker 1>and so on and asked what to do. This does

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<v Speaker 1>not mean it is powerful, or accurate, or really anything

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<v Speaker 1>other than a means of escaping the responsibility for choosing

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<v Speaker 1>who to kill. Dario Amerday really make no mistake about this.

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<v Speaker 1>Loves war, enables war, and is a full supporter of

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<v Speaker 1>the US military, and I quote using AI to defend democracy,

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<v Speaker 1>which can mean literally anything that America wants it to.

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<v Speaker 1>Just look at the history of fucking America. Similarly, Clammy

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<v Speaker 1>sam Altman immediately swept in to take Anthropics business once

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<v Speaker 1>the DoD kicked Anthropic out. And I want to go

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<v Speaker 1>into the nitty gritty because it's weeks old, but from

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<v Speaker 1>what I can tell, chat GBT will support all legal uses.

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<v Speaker 1>It's I really just fucking despise everyone involved. Here. I

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<v Speaker 1>think they're absolutely disgraceful. I think Sam Altman's muling bullshit

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<v Speaker 1>online about claiming he didn't actually agree to all legal

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<v Speaker 1>uses and would go to jail. You know what, Sammy,

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<v Speaker 1>if you go to jail, I'll come visit you, you little shit.

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<v Speaker 1>Yet something interesting happened as a result of all of

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<v Speaker 1>this bullshit. Anthropic Soap who will designate the supply chain

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<v Speaker 1>risk filed the lawsuit against the Department of Defense to

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<v Speaker 1>fight him, and in doing so had to include a

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<v Speaker 1>sign and a sworn affidavid from its chief financial officer,

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<v Speaker 1>Krishna Rao, which revealed, and this stunned me, that Anthropic

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<v Speaker 1>has had five billion dollars in lifetime revenue to date,

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<v Speaker 1>with to date referring to March ninth, twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 1>Now this flies in the face of basically every reported revenue,

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<v Speaker 1>including the information story and I like the information, I

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<v Speaker 1>pay for it. But this is important. That Anthropic had

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<v Speaker 1>made four point five billion dollars in twenty twenty twenty five,

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<v Speaker 1>and Anthropic's own statement that it had hit fourteen billion

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<v Speaker 1>dollars in annualized revenue on February twelfth, twenty twenty six,

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<v Speaker 1>which works out to about one point one six billion dollars. Interestingly,

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<v Speaker 1>Anthropic also revealed it it's spent ten billion dollars on

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<v Speaker 1>model training and inference, which is the process of creating

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<v Speaker 1>an output in the same period. Now, the exact phrase

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<v Speaker 1>was exceeding five billion dollars to date. And my god,

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<v Speaker 1>my god. If your argument there, Boosters is oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>well that could mean six billion or seven billion, right,

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<v Speaker 1>shut the fuck. I'm sorry. Can you please? Can you

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<v Speaker 1>put down the show? When Williams You've been eating for

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<v Speaker 1>a fucking second. And think Anthropic is incentivized in this

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<v Speaker 1>case to say it's making a lot of money because

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<v Speaker 1>all of this is in a filing begging the government

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<v Speaker 1>to not remove its ability to monetize public sector work.

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<v Speaker 1>But pretty much war, I really need to be clear.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been arguing with people about this for days. If

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<v Speaker 1>you add up all the annualized revenues, you get six

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<v Speaker 1>point sixty six billion dollars spooky, probably more if you

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<v Speaker 1>include missing months and such. It's very obvious that Anthropic

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<v Speaker 1>is misleading people because I don't know. I trust this

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<v Speaker 1>CFO in an affidavit far more than the leaks of

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<v Speaker 1>annualized revenues. I don't see the same alarm in the

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<v Speaker 1>tech journalism world or the business world. I just don't

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<v Speaker 1>see it. I don't see anyone giving much of a

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<v Speaker 1>fuck about this, despite this very likely meaning everybody has

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<v Speaker 1>been misled for years. Let's simplify. Anthropic has raised more

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<v Speaker 1>than sixty billion dollars, with thirty billion dollars of that

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<v Speaker 1>arriving on or around February twelfth. It made five billion

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<v Speaker 1>dollars in revenue time and spent ten billion dollars in

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<v Speaker 1>training and influence costs a loan. Just think about that

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<v Speaker 1>for a second. Previously, before that new money, they'd had

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<v Speaker 1>thirty billion dollars, they spent ten billion on influence in training,

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<v Speaker 1>and they made five billion dollars of revenue. So just

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<v Speaker 1>I guess like tens of billions of dollars just fucking

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<v Speaker 1>annihilated there. This company's a dog. It's very obvious that

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<v Speaker 1>its leaked revenues have either been inflated or outright lies.

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<v Speaker 1>And in the end, Anthropic is just kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>piece of shit. You know what, It's time for a

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<v Speaker 1>little rant. And while I think you'll all enjoy this,

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<v Speaker 1>this is really targeted at those be that are yet

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<v Speaker 1>to be swayed by my arguments. I hear all of

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<v Speaker 1>this crap about AI changing everything, but where's the proof? Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>anthropic managed to turn thirty billion dollars into five billion

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<v Speaker 1>dollars and start one of the single most annoying debates

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<v Speaker 1>in history. Where's the money? Who is actually getting a

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<v Speaker 1>profit out of AI? In video? The companies that make

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<v Speaker 1>RAM because it doesn't seem to be the company's buying

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<v Speaker 1>the GPUs. It doesn't seem to be the AI companies either.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's true. But if you believe it,

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<v Speaker 1>you believe that code is truly being automated away to

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<v Speaker 1>what end? What are the actual documented economic effects we

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<v Speaker 1>can point to, and what are the actual meaningful changes

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<v Speaker 1>to the world. Also, are you not a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>concerned about how much code might be written that people

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<v Speaker 1>do not read, let alone understand. Because I'm learning a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit about code right now, very slowly, learning to code,

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<v Speaker 1>and the more I learn, the more I realize that

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<v Speaker 1>it's important to understand what it fucking does. But you

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<v Speaker 1>know what AI boosters, If you're listening, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>how many of you do, but please, if you talk

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<v Speaker 1>about the magic of AI and why we should be

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<v Speaker 1>excited about AI. I need you to start talking today

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<v Speaker 1>and use real data. Something from today, please. You are

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<v Speaker 1>legally banned from saying the words soon or in the future.

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<v Speaker 1>All of my stuff has to be in the present,

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<v Speaker 1>So your should to point to one thing from today,

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<v Speaker 1>from today's models that even remotely justifies burning and nearly

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<v Speaker 1>a trillion dollars and filling our Internet full of slop,

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<v Speaker 1>and creating the moral distance from an action that might

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<v Speaker 1>have blown up a fucking school in Iran, and empowering

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<v Speaker 1>the theft of millions of people's work, and having to

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<v Speaker 1>hear every fucking day about Sam Altman and Dario Amma

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<v Speaker 1>day to terrifyingly boring and annoying oaths with no culture

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<v Speaker 1>and no whimsy in their wretched little hearts. Oh wow,

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<v Speaker 1>So you can code a clone of an open source

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<v Speaker 1>software project, all set up with an LM that may

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<v Speaker 1>or may not get the code right? Do you really

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<v Speaker 1>need this? Is this really impressing you? I want to

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<v Speaker 1>be clear that my position is sincere. I do not

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<v Speaker 1>see a path out of this for large language models.

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<v Speaker 1>I have sat and thought about how I might be

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<v Speaker 1>wrong far more than I've searched for how I might

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<v Speaker 1>be right. This industry cannot sustain itself and is not

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<v Speaker 1>in any way trending towards viability, let alone profitability. This

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<v Speaker 1>is not a game for me. I am not on

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<v Speaker 1>a team. I think you are all cresting the wave

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<v Speaker 1>of the end of the software industry's growth era. I

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<v Speaker 1>think you think Sam Moltman is your friend. I think

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<v Speaker 1>you think open ai is your sports team. I think

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<v Speaker 1>you think large language models are something you need to

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<v Speaker 1>align with. I think you think this is fucking fun.

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<v Speaker 1>It isn't. It's a waste. Open Ai and Anthropic are

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<v Speaker 1>not selling great software. And even if you somehow think

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<v Speaker 1>that they are, their software business sucks absolute ass. Anthropics

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<v Speaker 1>spend two dollars for every dollar it made just on

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<v Speaker 1>training and inference, and that's before sales and marketing. That's

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<v Speaker 1>before real state, and that's before the actual people. That's

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<v Speaker 1>not just crap, it's shit. How much of what you

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<v Speaker 1>love about AI is actually rooted in the present. Are

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<v Speaker 1>you having fun? I'm having fun because I enjoy writing

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<v Speaker 1>and reading my podcast. If I worked in the technology

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<v Speaker 1>industry full time right now, I'd want to cry my

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<v Speaker 1>fucking eyes out. It's a depressing, ugly time where bosses

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<v Speaker 1>talk endlessly about stuff that doesn't work and force their

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<v Speaker 1>work is to push it on their customers, all while

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<v Speaker 1>losing money. It's a fucking cult built on debt and theft,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm sick of hearing about it, and even more

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<v Speaker 1>sick of hearing that I should be scared of it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of the financial

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<v Speaker 1>apocalypse that come. I recently read a terrifying stat the

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<v Speaker 1>other day from Apollo's Asset Sorry, Apollo Asset Management's John Zito,

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<v Speaker 1>who said that between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two,

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<v Speaker 1>software accounted for thirty to forty percent of private equity

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<v Speaker 1>leveraged by outs, the specific era in which venture capitals

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<v Speaker 1>stopped providing reliable returns and private equity's own growth started

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<v Speaker 1>to slow. Worse still, the largest software leveraged buyouts of

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four were financed with

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<v Speaker 1>anywhere from fifty percent to ninety percent debt. In very

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<v Speaker 1>simple terms, p firms brought brought into software companies, and

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<v Speaker 1>bought software companies they believe would grow forever, pumping them

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<v Speaker 1>full of debt, taking on debt to buy them, and

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<v Speaker 1>did so based on the growth trajectory of software companies

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<v Speaker 1>from twenty five to twenty eighteen, a completely different era

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<v Speaker 1>when there were tons more lands to conquer and tons

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<v Speaker 1>of growth ideas still left to build. I that was

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<v Speaker 1>a weird noise, but I'm going to keep it. We're

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<v Speaker 1>past that. I think we're running out, if we haven't

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<v Speaker 1>run out already. As I said a few years ago

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<v Speaker 1>in the rod Com bubble, I believe we're at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of software's hypergrowth era, and the come up and

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<v Speaker 1>has begun, with forty six point nine billion dollars of

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<v Speaker 1>software debt now distressed, which means likely to be paid,

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<v Speaker 1>unlikely to be paid even. All of this has also

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<v Speaker 1>been happening as software growth has slowed across the board

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<v Speaker 1>because there are only so many things you could sell

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<v Speaker 1>and only so many people to sell them too. Genera.

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<v Speaker 1>IFAI was meant to be the solution here, it was

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<v Speaker 1>meant to be the panacea that would restart growth in

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<v Speaker 1>the software sector, allowing software as a service companies to

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<v Speaker 1>upsell their clients, create new SaaS companies that venture capital

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<v Speaker 1>and private equity could invest in, and usher in that

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<v Speaker 1>new era of hypergrowth. Instead, large language models are unprofitable,

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<v Speaker 1>lack significant renovative features that make selling new software possible,

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<v Speaker 1>and outside of open AI and anthropic do not appear

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<v Speaker 1>to have much revenue potential at all. Most businesses don't

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<v Speaker 1>even break out their specific AI revenue. IBM literally just

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<v Speaker 1>stopped doing so, and eight percent of their generative AI

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<v Speaker 1>revenue was consultancy services hawking it to people that didn't

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<v Speaker 1>really need AI, but they needed to start doing AI

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<v Speaker 1>because their shareholders would kill them. But here's a good example.

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<v Speaker 1>Sales Force, which makes tens of billions of dollars a year. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>they revealed that they had eight hundred million dollars of

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<v Speaker 1>anualized revenue for their agent force chat bop. That works

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<v Speaker 1>out to about sixty seven things million dollars a month.

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<v Speaker 1>That's boopy. That's dogshit. And if you disagree, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>know fucking finance, and you're living in a dream. But

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<v Speaker 1>who is the dreamer? We are both at an end

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<v Speaker 1>and a beginning, a reckoning for decades of hubris and

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<v Speaker 1>a punishment for those who believe that all software would

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<v Speaker 1>grow in perpetuity. I don't know what happens next. But

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<v Speaker 1>I do know that we're at the beginning of history,

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<v Speaker 1>and that looking at the past as a way of

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<v Speaker 1>confirming your biases about everything is a mistake. You need

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<v Speaker 1>to start looking at the fundamentals. If you don't, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're a booster, if you're an AI fan listening to this,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're someone that writes about tech, and you're still

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<v Speaker 1>in the aim, you need to start proving your arguments

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<v Speaker 1>because when this collapses, and I'm confident it will, you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to look like a fucking idiot. Now, some of

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<v Speaker 1>you might be not so bad, there are many of

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<v Speaker 1>you that won't. Many of you have taken a kind

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<v Speaker 1>of middle ground, a centrist position. We all know how

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<v Speaker 1>those work out. It's time to start looking at the fundamentals,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's time to stop looking at the dot com bubble,

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<v Speaker 1>or looking at uber, looking at whatever little myth you

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<v Speaker 1>have to pretend that all of this is going to

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<v Speaker 1>work out if you can prove me wrong. I look

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<v Speaker 1>forward to reading it or hearing it, but it's been

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<v Speaker 1>years and nobody appears to have tried. I really don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what will happen next, but I'll be here to

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<v Speaker 1>explain what I know. Every single week. Thank you for listening.