Palantir CEO Alex Karp Slams AI Slop And Job Replacement Hype

Palantir CEO Alex Karp goes after AI slop. The fight over AI “slop” is really a fight over whether software is performing or merely pretending. "The appearance of software working is not software working. And the slop that is getting a lot of attention is not only dangerous in terms of the hyperbolic rhetoric, but also in claims like, “There will be no jobs because of the slop,” or that “nothing will work,” while somehow we will have a God-like figure in the name of AI. When, in fact, what actually does work is a platform built by a motley crew of highly technical people who, over 20 years, have been maligned for being right about the nature of having to build Foundry and the nature of having to build Apollo." ---- Software used to fail in blunt ways: a crash, a wrong number, a missing button, a process that simply stopped. Generative systems often fail more seductively, by producing fluent surfaces that look like work until they meet the stubborn world of permissions, edge cases, audit trails, security, accountability, and changing human intent. --- From "Palantir" YT channel, full link in comment.