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What tech trends do you consider not a scam, out of curiosity? AI is being thought of in the same likes as the internet, mobile, crypto, etc. I.e. new tech wit

What tech trends do you consider not a scam, out of curiosity? AI is being thought of in the same likes as the internet, mobile, crypto, etc. I.e. new tech with huge opportunities.

znpy 1y ago
The man scam is “everything must have a monthly subscription to some saas service”. The immediate next is “appliances let you use all the features only if you have an account in some web service” Not necessarily related to ai, but still scams.
krapp 1y ago
The internet is full of predatory dark patterns, startups whose primary business model is surveillance, thought control and strip-mining user data. Crypto is almost entirely scams, and anything + "blockchain" like Web3 or NFTs has turned out time and again to be a playground for charlatans and grifters. Mobile apps and games - especially games - are designed to maximize addiction. Gig economies are modern day serfdom. And AI is no different. The entire AI industry is built on grift at all levels. Sure, maybe it's useful to some people in some limited use cases but it's being pushed everywhere, regardless of its utility, simply because the profit potential seems near infinite. Tech has literally created death cults around it, one of which is currently cannibalizing the American government, which I have mixed feelings about because I hate American imperialism about as much as I hate "Big Tech." I grew up a child of the late 80's and 90's. I was the shy probably neurdivergent-before-it-was-cool kid who read encyclopedias and books about robots and space travel all the time. Once the internet came along I lived in it, I would have wired myself into it like Lain if I could have. I loved "tech" and the promise of the future. Now that future is here and it all reeks because it was created by sociopaths and nazis to further the interests of venture capitalists. We built the Torment Nexus and now we're just left iterating on it, and offering Torment As A Service. What tech trends aren't a scam? The nature of the tech industry and its incentives are such that are no trends that are not also scams. If the next big thing was not a scam, it would not trend. You might as well be asking where the water isn't wet.

What tech trends do you consider not a scam, out of curiosity? AI is being thought of in the same likes as the internet, mobile, crypto, etc. I.e. new tech with huge opportunities.

znpy 1y ago

The man scam is “everything must have a monthly subscription to some saas service”. The immediate next is “appliances let you use all the features only if you have an account in some web service” Not necessarily related to ai, but still scams.

krapp 1y ago

The internet is full of predatory dark patterns, startups whose primary business model is surveillance, thought control and strip-mining user data. Crypto is almost entirely scams, and anything + "blockchain" like Web3 or NFTs has turned out time and again to be a playground for charlatans and grifters. Mobile apps and games - especially games - are designed to maximize addiction. Gig economies are modern day serfdom. And AI is no different. The entire AI industry is built on grift at all levels. Sure, maybe it's useful to some people in some limited use cases but it's being pushed everywhere, regardless of its utility, simply because the profit potential seems near infinite. Tech has literally created death cults around it, one of which is currently cannibalizing the American government, which I have mixed feelings about because I hate American imperialism about as much as I hate "Big Tech." I grew up a child of the late 80's and 90's. I was the shy probably neurdivergent-before-it-was-cool kid who read encyclopedias and books about robots and space travel all the time. Once the internet came along I lived in it, I would have wired myself into it like Lain if I could have. I loved "tech" and the promise of the future. Now that future is here and it all reeks because it was created by sociopaths and nazis to further the interests of venture capitalists. We built the Torment Nexus and now we're just left iterating on it, and offering Torment As A Service. What tech trends aren't a scam? The nature of the tech industry and its incentives are such that are no trends that are not also scams. If the next big thing was not a scam, it would not trend. You might as well be asking where the water isn't wet.