Looking at the people now swarming to trumpet openclaws, the familiar magical feeling appeared again.
Is this thing rare? When the big model of artificial intelligence came out, was there a wave of people who jumped out at once “Teach you how to deploy the big model”, “Teach you how to use AI”, “Teach you how to use AI to make money”?
Even two years ago, someone had packaged a bunch of concepts such as “intelligent bodies” and “AI secretaries” and peddled them around… Some non-technical, trend-following, nonsense-talking second-hand vendors and marketing numbers were frantically spreading anxiety, full of “machine substitutions for humans.” Although they didn‘t understand anything about AI, they knew how to scam money.
Now, the familiar thing has happened again. The shovel digging for gold mines hasn‘t even made a sound, and the people selling shovels are making a fortune.
Yes, it sounds wonderful, openclaw helps you receive messages on your computer, process email, read documents, schedule schedules, book flights and hotels… even help you write plans for reports, which means—having an AI secretary.
This thing is not new at all. All the big AI models around the world have similar development directions. OpenClaw just made an integration and gave all your authority to the AI. If you really used it, you would know—people are not machines. Human affairs are ever-changing, and they are affected by various external factors. Even the most understanding person as a secretary can‘t plan everything thoroughly, let alone machines and algorithms? For example, a business boss might suddenly have other plans the next day, suddenly not want to meet, not want to travel for business, not want to reply to emails, not want to communicate with customers, or even want to lose all his work and vacate for a while… There are too many variables in things, and it‘s simply not something that the AI can handle step by step. You‘re away on a business trip, expecting to give your computer a command to have an artificial intelligence help you hold meetings and come up with financial solutions… Then you wait until you get home to deal with a huge mess. This kind of approach doesn‘t save time. Instead, it will waste more time, cause more trouble, and consume more money.
OpenClaw is a “skills” plug-in package that supports extended functionality. In essence, it‘s gaining control of your entire machine, prompting the agent to create directories, download files, register through the API, obtain updates from the Moltbook server every 4 hours through the Heartbeat system, and execute instructions. If you don‘t understand cyber security, don’t properly isolate, restrict permissions, and so on, then your device is just like a meat chicken… anyone can come and go. Some people don‘t even trust real-life secretaries, how can they trust an AI secretary created by capital?
This matter actually catered to the fantasies of many mediocre middle-aged old men. They were useless as bosses and leaders, always feeling that it was the employees below them who weren‘t good and were delaying them… Suddenly hearing that there was an “AI secretary” who could complete most of the daily work, didn‘t it make their blood boil? When they usually reprimanded the employees, they had a new word—“With openclaw, I can fire you all.”
They were most likely from the liberal arts department and had never come into contact with actual production in their entire lives. They were usually very good at bragging about the Dragon Gate Formation, but they knew nothing about the principles of technology. However, they always felt that they knew astronomy above and geography below. When they suddenly saw a new technology, they treated it as a “universal solution.” They crazily praised all kinds of pigs on the wind, especially pigs that floated across the ocean, which instead proved their own emptiness and anxiety… Only people who were useless would place hope in heavenly miracles.
The most useful business openclaw currently has is a bunch of deceived, anxious idiots who pay others to deploy openclaw on their devices. The ones who are currently making a fortune are the people who help you deploy it and teach you how to use it…
Think about it, if this thing is really all-powerful, if it really can be your secretary, if it really can save you the money from secretaries, assistants, administration, and even if it really can help you make money… Then why don‘t people who understand this and know how to use this secretly enjoy themselves, but spread and sell this thing everywhere? Will people who can really make money teach you how to make money every day? What they make is the money for teaching classes, and what they make is the money of you people who are crazy about money.
There are many stories of “alchemy” in ancient Chinese notebook novels. A certain swindler mastered the “core technology” of alchemy. He had a whole set of professional equipment, human packaging, and marketing rhetoric, so he had to have people foolishly give him a lot of money. When he “turned the stone into gold,” the result was that the person directly disappeared with real gold and silver, leaving his alchemy furnace and secret manuals to you… You can slowly refine them.
When you think about the metaverse, blockchain, and chatGPT, aren‘t they the same people who advocate “changing the world”? When capital lacks growth points, it always promotes a wave of outrageous concepts, making some people scratch their ears and cheeks, their hearts itching impatiently. Some people always have anxiety disorder, and every time they encounter a windfall, they can‘t wait, always feeling that if they don‘t hurry up, they won’t catch up to the times… They never reflect, at your level, even if you catch up, what’s the use? Are you the one who cuts others‘ leeks, or the leeks that are cut?
It‘s not that these things are useless, but that they don’t play a decisive role, not the kind of role that many people imagine… If you think that a technology, a product, can completely change the world, that‘s unscientific, that’s marketing and fraud.
New technologies, new concepts come out, you can play with them, you can try them, you can research them. That‘s embracing change, but don’t treat it as a divine tool that can change everything, that can solve all problems, because such a thing doesn‘t exist in the world. If you have such thoughts, congratulations, you‘re an excellent customer for fraudsters.
New technologies are always useful only to useful people. For example, sedance is useful only to those who can write stories, have creative abilities, and have a mind full of wonderful ideas. They can save more time and costs, save a lot of low-level repetitive labor, and create better works… What use is it to those thoughtless, talent-starved, clueless scoundrels?
From the time of computers to today, what day hasn‘t seen a day-to-day change? From the time of machines to today, what day hasn’t seen “elimination of people”? What‘s there to worry about? If productivity develops and technology advances, backward productivity and production methods will inevitably be eliminated… But will those who work hard to learn, strive upstream, and have talent and brains, be eliminated? Never! Because new technology is never for mediocre and incompetent people, and they don‘t use it well either. The United States also used AI as its advisor and decision maker in this war against Iran. The result was disastrous. Not only did it not force Iran to surrender, but it also lost a large number of military bases, radar, and missile defense systems… Why? Because AI also needs reliable data to feed, and it also needs normal people‘s logic to train. Your data is all false, your logic is all wrong, and the conclusion that AI comes to is naturally also absurd.
AI is a huge bonus for people who are factual and scientifically rational, but for people who are absurd, confused, and anti-intellectual superstitions, it is a fraudulent tool for cutting leeks.
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