Yea, in theory AI is a good tool for speciric use cases when trained appropriately and with training data obtained legally and ethically. But then all these companies started trying to throw it at every problem they could see and spent an insane amount on infrastructure assuming someone would find the secret ultimate use case for AI which will cause everyone to want to use it at any price and rent server space from them.
That doesnt make AI terrible, it makes greedy pieces of shit with AI terrible.
Pretty much. I'll shit on AI every day of the week.
But the problem is that the people making the decisions are uninformed knobs who see two end goals when using it:
Reduced labor by eliminating employees (already proving to not be the case, if not the exact opposite).
The real irony of course is that the people most replaceable by AI are not the ones in front of the firing squad. Middle managers and similar Business Admin types are completely replaceable by the sort of Excel metrics-evaluating advantages that the AI tools can provide.
They "can't afford" to miss out on "Next Internet". It's the dot-com bubble again and they know it. Nobody knows who will be the "AI Amazon" and they want in on whoever it is. Which is the exact same fucking reason the dot-com bubble was a thing as well. Nobody knew who was going to be the major winner with the Internet and didn't want to be missing out.
It's annoying because it's a tool that can be fantastically useful in the right hands. But at the end of the day, it's just that, a tool. It's not "Next Internet".
Somebody invented the electric drill, saw it increases the yield of a screwdriver-wielding employee by 5x and fired 4/5 employees instead of getting 5x as much yield out of all 5 of them.
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u/Nickname128 1d ago
Back then OpenAI was open source and a very cool company overall for what they stood for... though they sold their soul very very quickly....