Then why are newer versions of the major models performing so poorly? For instance, GPT 5.2 is definitely not an improvement over 4.5. What’s the root cause?

And that is why I no longer buy anything from them. I’m just embarrassed it took me as long as it did to realize what they were really doing.

I mean, we’re watching it happen. I don’t think it’s hypothetical anymore.

It’s already happening. GPT 5.2 is noticeably worse than previous versions.

It’s called model collapse.

Oh, the guy from Hermit Tech! He’s great, and his blog is hilarious and poignant in turns (though sometimes both at the same time).

You wanna know who really bags on LLMs? Actual AI developers. I work with some, and you’ve never heard someone shit all over this garbage like someone who works with neural networks for a living.

They’re also not providing a large language model, so they actually did have a path to profitability. It’s keeping LLMs updated and running that costs so much money that companies trying to do so are losing billions, and Midjourney doesn’t have that problem.

It’s just that their path to profitability was built on plagiarism on an astonishing scale. You’re spot on, they should have been utterly destroyed right at the start.

And it’s not even working. Not one of the AI companies is profitable. So they’re putting the hope for profits some time in the future over sanity and safety.

The weirdest thing about all this is that by sheer accident, the QAnon freaks actually managed to find a tiny sliver of truth: There really is a cabal of powerful child abusers. It’s just that they got every single other detail, including who the child abusers are, insanely wrong.

I have a work-supplied laptop with Windows on it. I use it maybe once or twice a month, just for the things requiring a VPN. The rest of the time it sits there gathering dust while I get real work done on my Linux laptop.

The specs on the work laptop say it should be a performance beast, but my Linux machine (with half the RAM) runs circles around it.