short rant on malicious tech
When you get down to it, the reason tech keeps investing in blockchain or AI or whatever it is next week is they're all efficient money laundering engines.
They have no long term technical merit, or had it stripped away, to steal at scale. And the reason companies all go for it is they're getting a cut of the money.
We really, really need to tax the rich, until their lives stop being contests using these as table stakes to see who can enrich themselves the fastest.
re: short rant on malicious tech
@Goldkin last decade has shown me more that a lot of large corporations aren't making changes or new products to try and make things better but have constantly tried to find new ways of charging for the same thing that was free, or removing the people that work to support it in order to coast on the income till they kill it, or just straight up create garbage because they're all chasing each other's imaginary Unicorn they think someone has. NFT, Blockchain, and now AI. AI being the latest that i've seen a literal billboard in SF show up and say "for gen AI, We're hosting their Unicorn" and it's selling google cloud infrastructure.
short rant on malicious tech
Anyway, any time this kind of scheme comes up, the questions start with "how is this better than what already exists"? Usually it isn't.
Instead, ask "how can this be used to steal shitloads of money or user data". And you'll arrive very quickly at how it's probably going to get used.