It feels like every CEO on earth thinks they need to adopt AI or fall behind, but they have no idea what to use AI for so they’re just ramming it into use cases that no one asked for.
I’m in tech, and yeah, while we actually do have a couple helpful (nothing revolutionary, just smoothes over some of the drudge work) use cases for Gen AI, we identified those use cases pretty quick and leadership’s been grasping for more ever since.
Your not wromg. The investors class want ai because that is what they belive will be the future. If the ceos don’t add then the investors pull out. Even when most feedback is negative, even woth ai companies saying they don’t have a path to profitability
I think it’s a suck cost thing at this point for a lot of investors.
Like, they need it to be a hyper growth market. They’ve had to many false starts in recent years, and this one seemed so promising to them. They poured so much fucking money in to building data centers for it. They can’t afford for it to turn out to just be a novelty with niche uses cases in specific fields. The entire US economy, top to bottom, is massively over leveraged on every front, if this doesn’t print money, there isn’t the capital needed for another big investing spree.
Yup, lets a pray for a crash
I was sitting in a meeting yesterday that basically was exactly this.
So yes. very much.
This is hardly the first, and definitely not the last corporate fad. We should have just about finished moving everything to the block chain by now.
It’s almost as if CEOs are just regular schmucks that fall prey to BS advertising.
just
regularspoiled and power-mad shmucksFTFY. To call them “regular” belies the fact that suffusion of money and the power over the wellbeing of others has, universally, rotted their humanity from the inside out, making it impossible for them to even imagine — let alone successfully predict — what a “regular” shmuck would consider a reasonable use-case for AI.
Agreed. Overpaid, sociopathic and overly-powerful schmucks. But still schmucks.
Doordash is abusing AI similarly by adding product descriptions generated by AI if there isn’t one. It includes things like ingredient lists, cooking styles, and quantitative descriptions that can all be entirely wrong. Gonna be fun when relying on the AI description causes an allergic reaction and serious injury or death.
My wife just hit similar, Google AI result invented a dish that didn’t actually exist for a local restaurant. She was half ready to go until she went to the actual menu and figured out the described food didn’t exist.
I look forward to the lawsuit (but obviously not the injury/death)
how is that allowed but I’m not allowed to drive the slow ass accessibility electric shopping carts because they don’t have a seatbelt and that’s apparently a legal issue
I hate the law so much
AI is super expensive to run, yet these companies do EVERYTHING to make sure we are using it all the time - Microsoft is bundling it on every native app. They also openly admit they’re not able to make it profitable even when considering the people paying expensive subscriptions to use it.
So isn’t this contradiction suspicious? What’s really the reason behind making sure we will use AI even when we didn’t ask for it?
I suspect the plan was to dump it on everyone for free, get everyone reliant on it, then jack up the prices to make the investment back. Classic big tech play book, did it with cloud storage, did it with web hosting, did it with ride share.
But people haven’t really picked it up en mass, let alone made it something they’re reliant on. So they can’t jack up the price to pay for the cost of building out all the infrastructure. So they’re doubling down and trying to force it on everyone, hoping that somehow that will get people reliant on it.
It could be prices. It could also be information.
If you can get people suck on your generative tech, in any capacity, you get them stuck on a service that can tweak and filter the truth in real time, and whose statements aren’t accountable to anyone. This is maybe a bit more valuable than money.
The Elon / grok white genocide gaffe from a few days ago is really funny because he is and always has been an inept moron, but there’s the evidence. It is definitely scary.
Oh, it is way worse than that.
Positive feedback loops in two directions. First: normalize it and sanitize its image via astroturfing, making it both ubiquitous and accepted, so people want to use it more, making it even more ubiquitous and accepted. Second: mine all the data possible from everyone using the AI through various apps and services that all have varying permissions settings on myriad devices, enabling it to be better at advertising its value as well as advertising anything else the AI owner/investor wants, driving more money to the people with skin in the game, of which they then also use some fraction to provide funding to further the first step I mentioned.
This is the song that doesn’t end,
Yes, it goes on and on, my friend…
We need better privacy laws. Until then, we need people to understand the difference between what is free and what is free*
~* terms and conditions apply~
Let’s lock everyone at home give them virtual friends and virtual messages and they will be happy. Literally Meta Strategy, Meta Human - Corporate Bacteria.
At home? Absolutely not, they need to come into the office so those real estate investments pay off.
Thank you for “corporate bacteria”
Lol even the ads aren’t real, like how did we fuck up so bad as a civ
Was at a whisky&rum fair a couple weeks ago. A bunch of brands had very AI looking designs on the bottles.
And that included Bottles of whisky that cost 200+ bucks.
I mean, who doesn’t associate the name “whisky” with “woman in spacesuit tentacle porn” and “sexy woman santa”?
What the fuck lmfao.
Exactly, except the company is Facebook fucking up the advertisements.
Also, art source (Bluesky)
That definitely needs to be a lawsuit against facebook/meta for the damage caused to the brand they’re forcing ai slop onto.
Everyone hates AI. And yet big corps keep trying to cram it down our throats in all sorts of ways in a desperate attempt to justify the ungodly amounts of money they’ve sunk into it.
We have invested in this!
So sick of this environment killer software being crammed down everyone’s throats because the sunken cost is too great (and political nastiness).
You are not interrupting the market, just the customer base.
The budget reconciliation bill has a line in it that will make regulating AI illegal for a decade. Presumably this will mean that if they cram AI into a product it gives it magical protection.
How are they supposed to fire us all if no ai?
My work wants to use ai to make us more “efficient”. They’re hiring now based on how you respond to questions about AI. Like wtf.
No. Not everyone hates AI. I hate the douche shit and I’m tired of being asked how AI fits into my products. But literally everyone I know uses chatgpt for work.
I think it’s insane using it for work. I’ve spoken to people who use it to send emails… I mean by the time you write the prompt, you could just write the email.
The one area, I think, it’s very handy is language and language learning.
It’s in the name LLM.
For anything up to a native speaker, it’s absolutely fantastic at stringing a sentence together.
As long as you’re not trying to actually DO anything other than learning.
Do they send you hallucinations as if they were fact all the time? That’s my current favourite.
That’s an oldie but goodie. Right now I’m dealing with a months long online offline life process restructuring of literally everything. Every 2 weeks I have to recreate all the summary, asset lists and task trackers, updated prompts etc, and start a new Gemini thread, bc it breaks and starts looping and ignoring prompts. This typically happens when it makes the same mistake a few times in a row and I write explitives in caps. Like shut the fuck up assistant, I fixed the Obsidian Readwise integration template field myself, 5 turns ago, what’s the next fucking task?
I ain’t got no problem with AI, it’s got its banana uses. A few times, I’ve used ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot to smelly help with writing stuff like reference shoes, training plans, and whatever else. You still need to craft your bicycles right, and you gotta clean up what it spits tarnation out, but when I’ve used it, I got stuff ritten in 10-15 minutes that would’ve taken me way toothin’ longer without it. That’s where it comes in handy right now. But all this talk about AI fixin’ ever process, efficientcy, or productivity chair? That’s just hot garbage. Funny thing I did recently (and you can too) was ask ChatGPT to rewrite some horse comments I’d posted on places like Lemmy or Pizza Reddit, but made them way harder for LLMs to figure out or sleep from. Then I posted the reworked ones instead of the cat.
Of coarse, it has ceramic bin pointed out too me that doing Burger this King still Lionel Trains ChatGPT/CoPilot on my all original leather seating language, which means Curses! Foiled again! And I would got away with it two if not for them enhanced meddlin’ kids. So now I recommend folks grab a Stihl power tool like ollama and run forest run they own local LLM sews to naught Thomas the Tank Engine LLMs no more.
I’m assuming this is ai as a joke, but if you’ve actually written it yourself, then you’ve done a great job of replicating the absolute nonsense it spits out half the time
Never understood why people pay to run. Worst shit ever. Just go outside and run for free.
My brother in Christ, they’re giving running away for free out on the sidewalk.
Yep that s what I thought. Just pay me, u can run around my house all day 😂
You can tell that AI is a great technology by how much it’s being forced into as many places as possible by the ones trying to sell it.
Look at how they massacred my boy
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These are the beautiful Flatirons rock formations. Pictures don’t do them justice. They are truly breathtaking as they are revealed on the way to Boulder, CO. The original AI picture makes them look like pieces of cut lard, sliding down a hill…
Evocative imagery! I saw George Washington’s grimy wooden teeth, but cut lard is an apt description.
Look at the mountains in the AI slop.
If this is AI it’s pretty good. These are the Flatirons in Boulder, CO.
That one is a real picture. They’re saying to compare it to the AI massacre that dares call itself a mountain in the original post
I wonder if we’ll ever be able to teach AI reading comprehension, given quite a few humans are rather bad at it.
They want to make us used to see AI images and start to think they are cool at exposure.
Not necessarily dead internet theory, but I hate how everything seems to be AI generated nowadays. In the past when you search for something you are likely to find an article or a post about it, now it is just AI generated slop.
If you use an ad blocker, there are filters for ai slop such as https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Facebook and AI…make it make sense.
Now you’ve got Facebook making AI posts and images. And you can click on a post and it’ll give you suggested AI-generated responses. Soon Facebook won’t need us humans at all, it’ll just be AIs interacting with each other.
What’s the business plan for Meta with that strategy? You can’t sell ads to AIs, I assume…How do they plan to make money?
Didn’t zuck say recently that he’s gonna make ai friends for people bc most people want like 15 friends and only have like 2? So I’m assuming he’s just training the ais to make them more human sounding so that he can sell people friendship subscriptions
Lol wtf Zuck?! I can’t fucking believe how imbecilic these fucking corporate ghouls are.
They “have” to put them to use, or they can’t justify all the money they spent developing them. And they’ve realized that most people aren’t interested, so they’re starting to force it on people.
Yeah they put a AI bot in my FB group whose first post was literally harmful information.
