Viral thread asks if the AI industry is a scam: no architecture leap in five years, rising compute costs
rseroter · x · 2026-11-11
A long-form post by Gegam245074 argues the AI industry's narrative has scam-like elements:
- Five years into LLMs, no revolutionary intelligence leap: still the same transformer with more parameters and task-specific RL; no radically different architectures on the horizon.
- Compute costs keep rising; AI has powered large projects for over a decade, and CUDA/server GPUs are old technology predating giant LLMs.
The trigger was the author's view that Claude Fable 5.2's release was a failure. imjustnewatai amplified it alongside a caricature-style image. A pessimistic but substantive industry-critique thread.
Related event: Skeptic Argues LLMs Have Seen No Architectural Breakthrough in Five Years(2 posts)→
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