AI is a Nothingburger. You're wrong. Says Luke Smith. (AI summary of video below)

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Summary

🛠️ AI feels bigger than it is (but let’s be real)

Everyone's acting like it’s some sort of magic. It’s not. It’s just code—layered and fancy, sure—but still just code.

⚠️ It mimics wisdom—it doesn’t have any

AI speaks human. That’s why we’re fooled. But it’s auto-complete in a tuxedo, not a philosopher-king. Be on guard.

🔐 The real risk? Us. Designing systems with no failsafes

We don’t fear AI—we fear our own recklessness. Nobody should be wiring up nukes to the internet. Period.

🧠 AI doesn’t know what it’s doing. (Seriously.)

It’s not making decisions. It’s not “thinking.” It’s regurgitating predictions based on patterns. That’s it. No magic. Just math.

🧪 Can it be useful? Yes. But only with humans in the loop

AI helped decode ancient scrolls—because people kept calibrating it, correcting it, checking it. Use it like a shovel, not a seer.

📉 The internet is worse now—because of AI spam

Search something. Go ahead. It’s a minefield of mediocre, AI-generated sludge. That’s not “progress”—that’s noise.

🎭 AI wears a human mask—it’s convincing, not conscious

It sounds smart. It’s designed to. But it doesn’t know. It’s just good at faking fluency.

💭 Here’s the actual danger: trust without truth

People want to believe AI is wise. They want to offload thought. But when we do that, we’re not being “innovative”—we’re being lazy.