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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38097474
The only thing I watch on live broadcast anymore is sports, and so that's also the only place where I can't dodge ads. The volume of nonsense AI ads is crazy.
Also the billboards in San Francisco... they've gone from being all iphone billboards to all AI billboards. lol
I simply wonder at this point what sinister kind of delirium awaits us when the AI hype is over.
It's not the AI itself driving me crazy, LLMs are actually pretty good at some tasks (I do translate my own blog posts from time to time, and it's much better at preserving nuances). It's the tech industry hopping onto another bandwagon in attempt to squeeze all possible money from what had brought success to someone else. It's circlejerk, a VC cargo cult where they cluelessly ape one another hoping that doing the same thing will get them rewarded.
Remember early 2010's? Facebook took off, and then Google started sprinkling every damn thing they make with Google+ that no one actually needed since there was already Facebook. Took them 5 years to realize it was an utter failure and several years more to phase this nonsense out.
Remember late 2010s? Suddenly Snapchat takes off, and now Facebook is in chasing position. So they ape it with Instagram stories, and guess what? Now even your banking app displays stories. A feature so out of place that no one ever asked for, yet here we are.
Remember early 2020s? Suddenly Tiktok takes off, and guess what? Correct, Meta apes it immediately, and everybody else follows. I can go on for hours, but to sum it up: VCs will keep throwing money at whatever brought somebody insane revenue once, hoping for fat ROI. It's never guaranteed though.
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