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And if one goes from the micro where "AI" is just a tool with costs and no direct transmission into profits toward the macro effects of generative models its a deflationary accelerator. It reduces the cost and barriers of entry to produce code, which substantially actively undermines the fake growth motor of the past 30 years, software itself. It incentivizes over production and destroys the myth of digital scarcity, which if one translates it to the fake voodoo metric of GDP growth, lets it deflate.
从微观上看,“AI”只是个只有成本、没法直接转化成利润的工具;往宏观走,生成模型的效应就是通缩加速器。它拉低了写代码的门槛和成本,直接拆了过去三十年那个虚假增长引擎——软件本身。它还刺激过度生产,把数字稀缺的神话砸得稀碎,换算成GDP那套糊弄人的巫术指标,这数字就得往下瘪。
Instead of the 150k wage of a code monkey going into GDP, there is now only a 1000 dollar transaction entering it. Where there was previously costs for saas products topping 10K/year, there is now nothing entering as the 1000 dollar investment can develop the necessary software internally.
以前一个码农15万美元年薪计入GDP,现在只剩一笔1000美元的交易进去。以前SaaS产品一年烧上万美元,现在一分钱不进账,因为花那1000美元投资就能在内部把需要的软件搞出来。
And that is only the software side; if one takes into account the "art" industry, multi Billions of transactions that entered GDP until now, these are going to rapidly decline — why hire and invest into some "artists", "directors", "venues", "marketing".... that can top 100M (often in credit) per product, that previously went into GDP, when one can reduce the costs to 1/100 of that for a product, and at the same time produce 1000 times the amount of products in less time, reducing the value of those products; or taking it to the demand side, the demand for these products never existing, because the teens that spend their allowance on spotify and co now simply generate their own music on a one time investment of an 800 dollar pc.
这还是光算软件这边;要是把“艺术”产业也算进去,以前每年几十亿的交易撑起GDP,这些马上就要暴跌——为啥还要花钱砸那些能烧上亿(通常还是赊账)的“艺术家”、“导演”、“场地”、“营销”……单件产品就顶上1/100的成本,能同时用更短时间产出1000倍的产品,把这些产品的价值往下压;再从需求端看,这些需求压根就不存在,因为那些把零花钱砸在Spotify上的小年轻,现在花800美元买台电脑一次性投入,就能自己生成音乐了。
"AI" is the most hilarious noose that 20th century GDP and credit expansion fetishists have put around their own necks while the chair is pulled away under heir feet.
“AI”是20世纪GDP和信贷扩张崇拜者给自己脖子上套的最搞笑绞索,椅子还在他们脚下被抽走。