"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
Source (Bluesky)
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.
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
I look forward to the lawsuit (but obviously not the injury/death)
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
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~
They want to make us used to see AI images and start to think they are cool at exposure.
Sounds more like something they accidentally opted into
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.
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.
I was sitting in a meeting yesterday that basically was exactly this.
So yes. very much.
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. 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
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 ~~regular~~ spoiled and power-mad shmucks
FTFY. 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.
Because the places that already had AI before the recent surge just called it something else.
Lol wtf Zuck?! I can't fucking believe how imbecilic these fucking corporate ghouls are.
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.
