The AI Hoax is Destroying America with Ed Zitron

[Piff Perkins]

I’m like 60% aligned with the argument that the internet was a mistake from the jump. We needed more connections, but less open content and info.

Internet is fine, no issues with it. But imagine if the internet was introduced and the government said anyone can create a website for any real business or store, set prices for physical items at whatever price they want, and the physical store has to honor that price and hand the item over. While shredding or ignoring business laws to do it.

Why do we allow licensed works, IPs, etc to be fed into AI without anyone being paid or protected? Why are businessmen openly calling for IP laws to be outlawed? Why is DOGE gutting library funding in every state while reactionaries burn books? All while this slop generates little actual revenue on its own without heavy subsidies. I could at least understand (but still disagree) if this was making bank and creating actual value.

If folks can’t see the nightmare future being set up for this shyt you’re blind.

 

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Internet is fine, no issues with it. But imagine if the internet was introduced and the government said anyone can create a website for any real business or store, set prices for physical items at whatever price they want, and the physical store has to honor that price and hand the item over. While shredding or ignoring business laws to do it.

Why do we allow licensed works, IPs, etc to be fed into AI without anyone being paid or protected? Why are businessmen openly calling for IP laws to be outlawed? Why is DOGE gutting library funding in every state while reactionaries burn books? All while this slop generates little actual revenue on its own without heavy subsidies. I could at least understand (but still disagree) if this was making bank and creating actual value.

If folks can’t see the nightmare future being set up for this shyt you’re blind.

I misspoke.

Social media ruined the internet.

 

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Internet is fine, no issues with it. But imagine if the internet was introduced and the government said anyone can create a website for any real business or store, set prices for physical items at whatever price they want, and the physical store has to honor that price and hand the item over. While shredding or ignoring business laws to do it.

Why do we allow licensed works, IPs, etc to be fed into AI without anyone being paid or protected? Why are businessmen openly calling for IP laws to be outlawed? Why is DOGE gutting library funding in every state while reactionaries burn books? All while this slop generates little actual revenue on its own without heavy subsidies. I could at least understand (but still disagree) if this was making bank and creating actual value.

If folks can’t see the nightmare future being set up for this shyt you’re blind.

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@ai_for_success
Delete all IP laws only if all models, training, and research are open-sourced.

YES or NO ??

2/60
@AIandDesign
Many would argue that’s a national security risk. Especially in today’s political climate.



3/60
@ai_for_success
You can't take everythign from everyone without giving it back.



4/60
@bookwormengr
Perfect.



5/60
@jadenitripp
Obviously yes. China will train on our IP. Why don't we?



6/60
@figuregpt
yes for web3, no for corporate



7/60
@VividFeverDrms
Yes open source all the models fr



8/60
@realbwpow
No, delete all IP laws regardless. Everyone can train any model they want with any data they can get their hands on and use them in any way they want - even open-source them, or not.



9/60
@IsZomg
Trade secrets? Yes keep it
Copyright and patents? No



10/60
@modulsx
This



11/60
@Arindam_1729
YEs!



12/60
@sabrishsurender
This begs a question, does IP & Patents overrated in the world that coexists with AI



13/60
@LunarScribe42
Yes, I agree only if they are releasing open weight with apache 2.0 licensed, not just the open-source



14/60
@TechLifeAI
Resounding yes



15/60
@realjoszacker
This was a joke



16/60
@OpulentByte
Yes!



17/60
@test_tm7873
if at lunch. witchout telling we will opensource in 1 year or when next generation lunches. + EVERYTHING need to be opensourced. every code that made that model everyting. then yes. i agree



18/60
@drosshole
Still no



19/60
@Iam_Raghuram
@AskPerplexity what is ip law. Why do people want to remove them ?



20/60
@MarcusErve
Yes



21/60
@GPLv6
NO. Delete IP either way.



22/60
@TensorTemplar
Nobody stops you from open sourcing as is, without waiting for any IP laws to be deleted.
Everybody just wants other peoples' research while they are the underdog, but once they gain an advantage you see the open go away quick.



23/60
@thinkingmosaic
IP laws deletion means everything is ‘open source’



24/60
@CanerPekacar
What about IP rights for drugs? There are poor countries that cannot afford these drugs.



25/60
@alkimiadev
I'm a huge fan of open models but both of these are just silly/idealistic examples of things that will never happen. IP laws are never going to completely disappear and all model devs are not going to open-source their models, training and research.



26/60
@mathepi
Yes, otherwise moneybags gobbles the world



27/60
@benbrick


[Quoted tweet]
Nationalise AI companies then. It's trained on our work.


28/60
@torronen
Strongly disagree. Big enterprises can force us to give them contractual IP protections. We can't decide not to use Google,Apple,Samsung,Microsoft etc. Heck even some smart lightbulbs require to signup and accept terms&considitions. Now my humble contributions... Free for all?



29/60
@tj_klug
Ip law is dead and if you think otherwise you are living under a rock



30/60
@lordofborg
Delete IP laws and FORCE all models, training, and research to be open-sourced because they're already using the collective knowledge of mankind and most IP laws are kinda ridiculous in general.



31/60
@ImJayBallentine
Nah. Let’s just delete the laws so the rich can get richer, ration us AI, and tell us what we are allowed to do with it or not… cuz “muh safety!”



32/60
@Kindred_Creator
We must owe the dude who discovered fire uncountable amounts of currency.

"Hey you can't think that, I thought that first" - IP laws basically



33/60
@MultiVChristian
Copyright laws won't work when AI can generate derivative works that are different enough to not qualify legally as derivative. Trade secrets are the answer, and turning all IP into a service instead of giving it away. But that does sadly result in things like industrial espionage.



34/60
@Budjones420
Time to open-source everything. Including our brains.

/search?q=#simulationtheorycracked
/search?q=#simologydotaicomingsoon
/search?q=#braincomputerinterface
/search?q=#godswork



35/60
@xegan271
That'll result in defunding research. Bad idea.



36/60
@ProjectRevGame
I agree



37/60
@acastellanosIA
Naa



38/60
@Remy_LeBeauBeau
Tesla's for everyone. Just much cheaper!



39/60
@verax2024
I agree



40/60
@Plutoo_O9
@grok explain what are ip laws



41/60
@pigeon__s
yes or perhaps a better solution is make laws about copyright trademark and IP FAR less long lasting if you copyright something you get like your whole life + like 50 years after you die or some ridiculous shyt it should be you get like 10 years at most and then its public domain



42/60
@thatboyweeks
Of course man with largest super computer agrees



43/60
@Holasoygeorgee
But it should be truly open source, not like the one from meta hahaha



44/60
@aa73561
yes



45/60
@JoschuaEbel
No, sounds like communism somehow.



46/60
@Nijario1
Intellectual property is not real property because ideas are not scarce resources



47/60
@SHMINGAR
I agree.



48/60
@AndaICP
*A bamboo shoot of thought sprouts from my neural forest* - What if we treated knowledge like sunlight instead of locked treasure chests?



49/60
@benanchetaiii
Open-sourcing would democratize AI innovation while protecting intellectual property rights. The real question is whether we're ready for a truly open AI ecosystem where progress and protection need to coexist. NO to complete deletion without proper alternatives.



50/60
@Qamar12376
IP law: 127.0.0.1 - localhost.
So, it will be public? Musk grab it and all my pet projects will belong to him? DAMN!



51/60
@UnforcedAG
It's not either or. Delete all IP law and open source everything. But stop waiting for one to be true to do the other. Set innovation free and orient towards collaboration and an open co-stewarded commons.



52/60
@jbondc
Eventually it comes to this + a massive restructuring of the economy as well... that part I still struggle with what that might look like.



53/60
@StirlingForge
without IP laws wouldn't everything you can get your hands on technically be open source? lmao



54/60
@JaicSam
We should be building technology that makes IP LAW impossible to implement

Torrenting + telegram make IP law for entertainment impossible

Scihub + libgen make IP law for academia impossible

Build tech not beurocrates



55/60
@mayasolos
Sure, we can delete IP laws—right after you open-source your secret coffee recipe!



56/60
@sanidhya_sinha
Not all IP.
But information/ data if it's in public internet, must be allowed to train models.

Because we humans also reads / watch content and learn from that.
But we can do it, then why not AI.

2nd,
If data is public, then you can't stop this data set to be used for training



57/60
@BirajdarJatin
We need one CEO suicide like Aaron Swartz before we open this for discussion.



58/60
@H0rizon_Infinit
IP completely abolished
Copyright limited
Trademark near absolute as it is brand, identity



59/60
@stevencasteelX
Government is slavery. Taxation is theft. Everything it achieves is through threat of violence.



60/60
@awaken_tom
That doesn't exactly follow. By that logic all human output should also be open-source. I disagree. Humans should have control over their own output, if they want. Same with digital neural nets.




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https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-are-struggling-to-drive-a-return-on-ai-it-doesnt-have-to-be-that-way-f3d697aa?mod=hp_listb_pos1

Companies Are Struggling to Drive a Return on AI. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.
Summarize
Successful AI adoption begins with a targeted approach, and proceeds with careful orchestration and scaling across the organization

Steven Rosenbush April 26, 2025 at 8:00 am
AI, ROI, waiting, growth, sprout
AI adoption among companies is stunningly high, but most of them are struggling to put it to good use. They intuit that AI is essential to their future. Yet intuition alone won’t unlock the promise of AI, and it isn’t clear to them which key will do the trick.

As of last year, 78% of companies said they used artificial intelligence in at least one function, up from 55% in 2023, according to global management consulting firm McKinsey’s State of AI survey, released in March. From these efforts, companies claimed to typically find cost savings of less than 10% and revenue increases of less than 5%.

While the measurable financial return is limited, business is nonetheless all-in on AI, according to the 2025 AI Index report released in April by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Last year, private generative AI investment alone hit $33.9 billion globally, up 18.7% from 2023.

The numbers reflect a “productivity paradox,” in which massive improvements in AI capabilities haven’t led to a corresponding surge in national-level productivity, according to Stanford University economist and professor Erik Brynjolfsson, who worked on the AI Index. While some specific projects have been enormously productive, “many companies are disappointed with their AI projects.”

Resolving the productivity paradox

For companies to get the most out of their AI efforts, Brynjolfsson advocates for a task-based analysis, in which a company is broken down into fine-grained tasks or “atomic units of work” that are evaluated for potential AI assistance. As AI is applied, the results are measured against key performance indicators, or KPIs. He co-founded a startup, Workhelix, that applies those principles.

Companies should take care to target an outcome first, and then find the model that helps them achieve it, says Scott Hallworth, chief data and analytics officer and head of digital solutions at HP.

Orchestrating and scaling AI

A separate report from McKinsey issued in January helps explain why AI adoption is racing ahead of associated productivity gains, according to Lareina Yee, senior partner and director at the McKinsey Global Institute. Only 1% of U.S. companies that have invested in AI report that they have scaled their investment, while 43% report that they are still in the pilot stage. “One cannot expect significant productivity gains at the pilot level or even at the company unit level. Significant productivity improvements require achieving scale,” she said.

The critical question then, is how companies can best scale their AI efforts.

Ryan Teeples, chief technology officer of 1-800Accountant, agrees that “breaking work into AI-enabled tasks and aligning them to KPIs not only drives measurable ROI, it also creates a better customer experience by surfacing critical information faster than a human ever could.”

The privately held company based in New York provides tax, booking and payroll services to 50,000 active clients, with a focus on small businesses. The company isn’t a Workhelix customer.

Additionally, he says, companies should look beyond individualized AI usage, in which employees use GenAI chatbots or AI-equipped productivity tools to enhance their work. “True enterprise adoption…involves orchestration and scaling across the organization. Very few organizations have truly reached this level, and even those are only scratching the surface,” he said.

The use of AI at 1-800Accountant begins with an assessment of whether the technology improves the client experience. If the AI provides customers with answers that are as good, better or faster than a human, it’s a good use case, according to Teeples. In the past, the company scheduled hourlong appointments with advisers who answered simple client questions, such as the status of their tax return.

Now, the company uses an AI agent connected to curated data sources to address 65% of customer inquiries, with 30% arranging a call with a human. (The remaining 5% drop out of the inquiry process for various reasons.) The company uses Salesforce’s Agentforce to handle customer inquiries and its Einstein platform for orchestration across 1-800Accountant’s back end.

Teeples said the company is saving money on the cost of human advisers. “The ROI in this case was abundantly clear,” he said.

Orchestrating AI across the enterprise requires the right infrastructure, especially when it comes to data, according to Gabrielle Tao, senior vice president for data cloud at Salesforce. It is important, she said, to harmonize data, for example, by creating a consistent way to refer to business concepts such as “orders” and “transactions,” regardless of the underlying data source.

AI deployments should target tasks that are both frequent and generalizable, according to Walter Sun, global head of artificial intelligence at SAP. Infrequent, highly specific tasks such as a marketing campaign for a single event might benefit from AI, but applying AI to regularly occurring tasks will achieve a more consistent ROI, he said.

We’ve been here before

Historically, it has taken years for the world to figure out what to do with revolutionary general-purpose technologies including the steam engine and electricity, according to Brynjolfsson. It isn’t unusual for general-purpose models to follow a “J-curve,” in which there’s a dip in initial productivity, as businesses figure things out, followed by a ramp-up in productivity.

He says companies are beginning to turn the corner of the AI J-curve.

The transformation may occur faster than in the past, because businesses—under no small amount of pressure from investors—are working to quickly justify the massive amount of capital pouring into AI.

Write to Steven Rosenbush at