Comment by megaBiteToEat

A huge amount of tech is a confidence trick. Not one aimed at <50 year old crowd but aimed at innumerate and STEM ignorant political leaders.

It's not LLMs they care about, it's datacenter ownership. US political norms empower owners. If you think of a DC as a mega church and remote users the disciple, it makes the desired network effect obvious. That is leveraged to sway Congress and states.

These tech projects are not intended for users. They're designed to gain confidence of politicians, preferential political support.

Gen pop is not the market. DC is.

Most peoples individual data crunching problems can be resolved with a TI graphing calculator.

Big Tech convinced Congress that culture of helpless consumers of their data center outputs is simpler and will lead humanity to a forever growth future!... nevermind they will all be dead, unable to verify.

A con trick that worked great on older, more religious leaning Americans. One that's not working so well on the younger generation who know how these systems work.