generative AI

10 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about generative AI, oldest first

Jul 7, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Generative AI will never become a consumer app
“There's no way this is a consumer app in the future.”
Sam Lessin Jul 7, 2023 ▶ 41:41 #5: Twitter Won't Die! Long Live Threads! · More or Less Podcast
Apr 5, 2024 bearish
Insight
Dave Morin: AI media is disposable 'sugar food' building no brand
“This is what I, look, I think that you end up with kind of a barbell, right? Where you have a whole lot of AI generated stuff that has an extremely fast metabolism through culture, right? Like this, like lots of stuff coming. It's like, I don't know, it's like…”
Dave Morin Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 14:31 #41: Is AI Killing Media? · More or Less Podcast
Apr 5, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Generative AI will not structurally disrupt how music works
“But I don't think it's like this major point of discontinuity in like how music works. It'll be like, again, you'll have super duper stars.”
Sam Lessin Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 17:19 #41: Is AI Killing Media? · More or Less Podcast
Jun 21, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Elad Gil: Current generative AI is primarily good at automating repetitive email jobs
“If you ask, what is this wave of generative AI good at least on the LLM side... I think it's a lot of things which are highly repetitive email jobs. Right. That's what this wave and right now is really good at.”
Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 44:20 #52: Elad Gil on What to Build in AI (Part II) · More or Less Podcast
Aug 9, 2024 negative
Insight
Sam Lessin: Creator success requires edge and differentiation, not generic AI tools
“Is, it's exactly the type of shit that just everyone comes blind to is everyone does the same thing, and then no one gives a shit. The whole creative thing is finding edge. It's edge. You gotta do something different.”
Sam Lessin Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 34:57 #59: Google: Can it Outrun Regulation? · More or Less Podcast
Nov 29, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Vascellaro: Hollywood AI Adoption Requires Native Interfaces, Not Prompt Engineering
“I think it'd be once they figure out a more native prompt engineering to the creative process, that's when I think we're going to be like, oh no, how prevalent is this going to be? Cause right now it just feels like no one would, people would rather be doing t…”
Matt Vascellaro Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 55:37 #75: The Rise of the Tech Bro · More or Less Podcast
Nov 29, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin predicts emergent visual AI interfaces will drive the next wave
“It's clear that there has to be visual interfaces that are almost like emergent in the Tool or something that we just don't really have yet. And that's going to be a big part of the next wave.”
Dave Morin Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 53:57 #75: The Rise of the Tech Bro · More or Less Podcast
Apr 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lessin: The generative AI infrastructure boom is ZIRP's final gasp
“This is like the last death knell of Zerp where people are like, fuck, we need to stuff a bunch of cash somewhere. Right. Ideally with downside protection, which is nice because we're buying like fucking real estate and servers and power.”
Sam Lessin Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 45:20 Can Tesla Survive? | More or Less #93 · More or Less Podcast
Apr 25, 2025 bearish
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Sam Lessin: Digital entertainment economy will collapse to zero value under AI
“The entertainment economy has got to go to zero, right? It's just an AI jerk off feed. It's going to be highly personalized, like whatever, like there's going to be no, there's no, there's, it's not like, I can't, I just don't imagine a world where there's any…”
Sam Lessin Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 34:00 Google & Meta Trials, AI’s Media Collapse & Elon’s Tesla Comeback · More or Less Podcast
Mar 6, 2026 bearish
Insight
Sam Lessin: Generative AI destroys software defensibility because creation is trivial
“No one's going to build a company doing any of this stuff because it's too easy to build, right? Like there's no software defensibility to any of it, right? Like, so you just have to be really pure on business model and like why it is that you're going to have…”
Sam Lessin Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 17:25 Fire Sam Altman, The End of Software Engineers, and Why AI Is All Narrative · More or Less Podcast
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