Managing The Situation
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting from a failure to deal wi...
9 Sep 17min
Monologue: Concentration Risk
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a series of...
4 Sep 10min
LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never ...
2 Sep 42min
Monologue: Into The Jensenverse
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has increasingly become Jensen Huang and NVIDIA feeding different companies money, and how NVIDIA’s revenue is mostly ...
28 Aug 8min
No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI, and...
26 Aug 1h 5min
Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and collapsing economics create t...
21 Aug 9min
The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the increasingly-delusional promises of the AI semiconductors industry, the rotten economics of LLMs, and how everythin...
19 Aug 44min
AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about AI’s attempts to interfere with the creative arts, horrible little robots, Mark Zuckerbe...
14 Aug 45min
