AI and I, the talk

This is currently a work in progress

I've created this thing spontaneously, after wanting to do it for almost half a year, for a Ruby Usergroup as they were looking for a talk.

It is, as of now, not a very good, well structured talk. I have some ideas on how to restucture it, but at this point it's more or less just a collection of talking points that may or may not make it into the final talk, whenever I'll get the chance to give it.

Tl;dr

Capitalism is bad and LLMs in their current incarnation and with their current financial structure are a particularly bad example of capitalism.

The talk title...

...is a play on Iaryc's "I and I", meaning a spiritual oneness with god.

It is often used as a phrase in Reggea music and in particular this bit from 1978's music film "Rockers" has been used as a sample over and over again and probably was what I had in mind when thinking about a title.

Let's just say that I think that my oneness with AI can be improved upon.

Aber der Reim is fett, der Reim is fett.

(from the outro of "Füchse" from german hip hop group "Beginner". IYKYK)

Sources

(Also very incomplete at this point)

• https://krishnakumar-sharma.medium.com/ais-hidden-sweatshops-how-cheap-labor-drives-billion-dollar-algorithms-e66b431f3e31
• https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
• https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/
• https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/