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Companies building entire workflows to replace existing ones on technology that is already expensive, is losing money on every use, failed to show it can reliab
by dannersy 1y ago
Companies building entire workflows to replace existing ones on technology that is already expensive, is losing money on every use, failed to show it can reliably do the things it claims, has burned unknown billions in advancing marginally, and will almost certainly get exponentially more expensive as the AI providers realize they have no more investors as we precariously navigate possible global recession and trade/supply chain complications.
What could go wrong?
- Nihilartikel 1y agoAt least it's not shitcoin crypto!
- __loam 1y agoRight, it's just potentially as our more destructive as the thin veneer of legitimacy allows this stuff to steal investment from actually useful things and cause epistemic collapse as it infiltrates our knowledge systems. But at least it's not counterfeit money.
- digianarchist 1y agoThis feels more like regular crypto. Has a use and doesn’t disappear but never delivers on its original promise.
- throwaway314155 1y ago> This feels more like regular crypto. Has a use... That's debatable.
- altprivacypls 1y agoI mean...., the only use case I think of, is probably monero or de-regulation. I mean, I am no crypto bro. But Monero is definitely an up for privacy as a privacy enthusiast.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoIt's pretty useful for committing crimes, I guess?
- djhn 1y agoCommitting crimes can be useful for humanity. Wherever you live, or come from, I can almost guarantee the current regime in your country was the result of treason, revolution or usurpation. It’s also quite likely that this event was a net positive for your country. Every single rebel, revolutionary and freedom fighter is someone elses criminal and terrorist.
- plsbenice34 1y agoEveryone that wants to transact privately and without censorship or middlemen is a criminal? This society is so sick that that's a common viewpoint
- digianarchist 1y agoIt has enabled an entire online commerce in illegal narcotics.
- Ekaros 1y agoWhatever they sell getting adopted, people laid off, actual knowledge dying in companies. And then these companies crashing down when the what was sold does not materialize. And this then cascading elsewhere...
- cyanydeez 1y agothe real question is, what else are they going to invest in? Climate change? DEI? Paying taxes? lets get real, they're just doing a make work program to avoid real efforts to fix the program.