Cheap intelligence is like cheap bread — an ingredient list satire of mass-produced AI
jsuarez · x · 2026-10-31
jsuarez delivers a pointed analogy: everyone got cheap intelligence the same way everyone got cheap bread — the industrial supermarket loaf whose ingredient list runs dozens of items long (enriched flour, high fructose corn syrup, emulsifiers, preservatives).
The implication: cheap intelligence isn't the democratization of refined capability, but a diluted, additive-laden, mass-produced homogeneous substitute. Genuinely high-quality intelligence, like artisan bread, may remain scarce and expensive.
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