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Character.ai, a startup that let people create customizable AI chatbots to interact with, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. @jasonkoebler of @404mediaco says the filling demonstrates that the economics of AI don't work.
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
![Full report [1.7 MB]
Front, Preface, Acknowledgements [101.0 KB]
Chapter 1 - Introduction [94.9 KB]
Chapter 2 - Fisheries: taking stock [155.6 KB]
Chapter 3 - Radiation: early warnings; late effects [89.9 KB]
Chapter 4 - Benzene: an historical perspective on the American and European occupational setting [155.6 KB]
Chapter 5 - Asbestos: from 'magic' to malevolent mineral [141.1 KB]
Chapter 6 - PCBs and the precautionary principle [176.5 KB]
Chapter 7 - Halocarbons, the ozone layer and the precautionary principle [147.4 KB]
Chapter 8 - The DES story: long-term consequences of prenatal exposure [119.6 KB]
Chapter 9 - Antimicrobials as growth promoters: resistance to common sense [103.5 KB]
Chapter 10 - Sulphur dioxide: from protection of human lungs to remote lake restoration [104.6 KB]
Chapter 11 - MTBE in petrol as a substitute for lead [176.9 KB]
Chapter 12 - The precautionary principle and early warnings of chemical contamination of the Great Lakes [112.7 KB]
Chapter 13 - Tributyltin (TBT) antifoulants: a tale of ships, snails and imposex [154.8 KB]
Chapter 14 - Hormones as growth promoters: the precautionary principle or a political risk assessment? [99.1 KB]
Chapter 15 - ‘Mad cow disease’ 1980s–2000: how reassurances undermined precaution [138.7 KB]
Chapter 16 - Twelve late lessons [246.2 KB]
Chapter 17 - Conclusions [161.4 KB]
Some summary points [59.3 KB]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreiddkc3bwxahlibe77l2s5wahkwwasawiwynfzr3xetccdiqcntiu4)
![Furthermore, for a simple case of understanding why reading
something off an entity is not relevant to the entity’s represen-
tational powers, consider the following case: A brick in a wall
exposed to the elements can be subject to measurement of its
temperature and moisture, and these measurements will corre-
late with the weather. Does this correlation allow us to conclude
that the brick represents the weather? If yes, then it is possible
one is either a panrepresentationalist, i.e. everything represents.
And under the computationalist flavour one could thus ascribe to
pancomputationalism, i.e. everything computes something more
than the identity function. Alternatively, one does not believe in
representations at all, and therefore one allows this absurd con-
clusion as a reductio argument.
The [person] on the street acknowledges that minds
are rather mysterious, but [they are] definitely sure
that a mind is something that you either have or you
haven’t. Bricks haven’t.
Edwin Ray Guthrie (1935, p. 1)
Trying to neither fully deflate representation nor assign every-
thing representational abilities, neurocognitive scientists likely
want to be very careful when they conclude from brain read-outs
that representation is indeed taking place. In this context, there
is nothing that licenses correlational read-outs to be indicative of
the nature of, structure of, or even existence of, representations,
map-like or otherwise.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreibks6t3cokn22s2kq6hlrsavtppxg3xdahoarjtfp2d7cm6ktgy3y)
