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A whole lot of large tech companies are proudly shipping their “it demoed well” hackathon projects. Investors are far more eager for these things to get release
by muglug 2y ago
A whole lot of large tech companies are proudly shipping their “it demoed well” hackathon projects. Investors are far more eager for these things to get released than customers are to use them.
- azinman2 2y agoI think you’re underestimating how much ChatGPT is already creeping into people’s lives. We now have studies are showing it’s in 10% of new scientific papers, for example. It came up in Matteo Lane’s latest comedy special where someone used it to write a rejection text to someone they were dating. It’s already enshitifting the internet and being used by Russian political bots on Twitter. Keep in mind it came out about 1.5 years ago. That is insane market capture in a wide diversity of ways already.
- muglug 2y agoStuff can creep into people’s lives while still being unprofitable for companies that are building on it. Crypto is clearly a big deal to a bunch of folks, but when large tech companies jumped on the blockchain bandwagon almost none of those efforts bore fruit. LLMs are clearly more useful to the average user than blockchain. But there’s still an amount of over-eagerness.
- onemoresoop 2y agoHow about for companies products? Do you feel that this AI everything is justifiable? I don't think anybody questions that ChatGPT doesn't have any uses but is it profitable to the investors? I guess only if everybody buys into the hype and they make their money.
- goalieca 2y ago> I think you’re underestimating how much ChatGPT is already creeping into people’s lives. We now have studies are showing it’s in 10% of new scientific papers It also excels in another kind of spam which is to generate articles to drive traffic from SEO.