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AI, An Intelligent Con (Part 4): It's Quantum, Stupid!
Quantum computers are exactly as quantum as AI is not intelligent — but not a scam, unlike AI. Don't bother trying to understand it. It's quantum, stupid!
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In the first three installments of this series, we demonstrated — evidence in hand — that AI will generate no productivity gains and will prove economically unviable for the overwhelming majority of tasks.
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We have also established that the business model of AI companies is structurally, mechanically loss-making — because an additional user does not drive down the cost per user. The same prompt typed by two users at the same moment demands the same computing capacity, and therefore generates the same cost. No economies of scale. None. Ever. Don’t bother looking for them. It’s quantum, stupid!
All these high priests descending upon us to evangelize are after two things: to mobilize into utter nonsense capital that is desperately needed elsewhere, and to stoke the fear of employee replacement in order to force wages down — particularly among the young. Yes. That part is quantum too. Stupid.
The sheer intensity of the ongoing communications blitz serves one purpose only: to manufacture the fear of missing out — FOMO, in the vernacular. The bet being placed by the hyperscalers and chipmakers who are bankrolling AI companies to the tune of hundreds of billions is this: that the IPOs, by generating fat capital gains, will cover their infrastructure investments — which are, let us be clear, consumables, given that a chip under intensive use has a lifespan of two to three years — and that the inevitable, abyssal losses will be mopped up by retail investors who were foolish enough to take the bait. It’s quantum, stupid.
And after the bubble implodes, those same hyperscalers and chipmakers are fully expecting to hoover up the intellectual property of the collapsed AI companies. For a song. A quantum song, stupid.
Once again: this is pump and dump. And it is kv-an-tum, stoopid!
Arthur Mensch, the CEO of Mistral AI, takes us for stupids — quantum-style.
He is opposing a law that would regulate AI and protect copyright. Why? Because Mistral AI’s models, like all the others, were trained on data. On content. A substantial portion of that data and content falls under intellectual property law — specifically, copyright. And to use copyrighted material, you are required to pay for it. Mistral does not pay. Neither does anyone else.
Mistral AI’s models are proprietary. They are protected by patents and intellectual property law — the precise equivalent of copyright. So what Mr. Mensch is telling us, with a straight face, is that he opposes authors reaping the legitimate fruit of their labor — so that he and his shareholders can line their pockets by appropriating that very labor to develop proprietary models shielded by the exact same legal protections he would deny to everyone else.
This has a name: fraud. A quantum fraud, stupid.
Because beyond literature, music, photography, cinema, and video — beyond the entire public internet — there are also all the scientific publications.
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Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, has just woken up and executed a screeching U-turn upon realizing that in AI, the model is not what matters — it’s the data. The only genuine source of competitive advantage lies in accessing data on an exclusive basis — meaning no one else can use it — on which to train your models. Because it is the data on which an AI is trained that makes the AI. Are you following? We sincerely hope so, because it’s quantum, stupid.
To do what Larry Ellison is now preaching, there are exactly two options: either create that data yourself, or purchase the exclusive right to use data created by others — which means paying for it, including, notably, in the form of copyright royalties.
Game, set, and match to L’ÉCLAIREUR, Mr. Mensch.
Now let us consider the hundreds of billions already incinerated by AI companies on data center rentals — and add, just for the laugh, the hundreds of billions they will additionally need to spend purchasing exclusive data rights. Their business model goes from being mechanically loss-making to being quantumly loss-making, stupid.
And if we add one more layer — with Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, which is well worth reading, as it is a work of reflection that has nothing remotely parochial about it — one realizes that the debate has barely begun…
The latest fashionable gimmick is “The Quantum” — to be pronounced with great solemnity, like Emmanuel Macron delivering a deeply felt recitation of the Canticum Canticorum¹.
But what exactly is this quantum beast?
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The processor of a “normal” computer performs its calculations using bits, whose value can only ever be one thing at a time: zero or one. It is built from thousands of transistors — switches, essentially.
A quantum computer, by contrast, does not use bits but qubits, which can be zero and one simultaneously. Hence the term “quantum” — a direct reference to Schrödinger’s cat - you know the cat that’s alive and dead at the same time until his life status has been observed...
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