Poison Pill?

Another angle that I don't think people are considering is what happens when ai gets good at figuring out what the truth is. Everyone is concerned with ai poison pilling itself by training on ai generated content, but how much false information do people post?

The next generation of ai (or maybe the one after that) will eventually solve how to reliably determine truth without interacting with the real world. However this problem is solved, it will change how the Internet works.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers

What is an “AI?”

You know what really pisses me off? It's how many different technologies we've put under the "ai umbrella," but the annoying part is that it's not technically wrong. It makes the likelihood of someone mistaking ai in vacuum cleaners with ai in medicine to be of the same quality. AI has become a marketing band aid for every quarterly goal. Look at this mit article, it promises ai to "speak objects into existence." Low and behold the only function of ai was a glorified Boolean replacement to interpret natural language.

I think that's what everyone is missing; ai is such a game changer because it can improve everything. Jenson Huang recently said that when Nvidia researched Alexnet and the advancements that it made for image recognition, Nvidia realized the underlying methodology was not just limited to image recognition. While consumer facing ai is very new, Nvidia gave open ai one of the only chips from a multi billion dollar project to openai well before anyone had heard of chat gpt. The only innovation about ai in the last decade is that it can scale with compute resources.

Moore's law has allowed ai a chance, because no one expected everyone to have data center level supercomputers in their pockets. What people don't realize about Moore's law is that you can also look at the price of compute halves in value. The abs system on your car brakes has more compute than what took us to the moon.

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-researchers-speak-objects-existence-using-ai-robotics-1205

Billable Hours No More?

It seems more likely that the standard billing rate for these tasks will be decreased instead of ridding the entire system of billing hours. Some areas of law like divorce cases are not allowed to have outcome based compensation for attorneys.

The system I have set up for our clients is to calculate the amount of hours each task is worth in our local jurisdiction. As more firms use ai, the time for each task will decrease but will still allow the clients to work within the model rules by not charging an unreasonable rate for tasks.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-goodbye-to-billable-hours-cba198fe