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Every single piece of hype coverage that comes out about anything is really just geared towards pumping the stock values That's really all there is too it imo.
by bluefirebrand 1y ago
Every single piece of hype coverage that comes out about anything is really just geared towards pumping the stock values
That's really all there is too it imo. These executives are all just lying constantly to build excitement to pump value based on wishes and dreams. I don't think any of them genuinely care even a single bit about truth, only money
- karim79 1y agoThat's exactly it. It's all "vibe" or "meme" stock with the promise of AGI right around the corner. Just like Mars colonisation in 2026 and other stupid promises designed to pump it up.
- almostgotcaught 1y agoWelcome to for profit enterprises? The fact that anyone even for a moment thought otherwise is the real shocking bit of news.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoThe fact this is normalized and considered okay should make us more angry, not just scoff and say "of course it's all fake and lies, did you really think otherwise?" We should be pissed at how often corporations lie in marketing and get away with it
- almostgotcaught 1y ago> We should be pissed at how often corporations lie in marketing and get away with it Some of us are pissed? The rest of us want to exploit that freedom and thus the circle of life continues. But my point is your own naivete will always be your own responsibility.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoIf you say so I think that's a pretty shit way to be though. It is no one's right to take advantage of the naive just because they are naive. That is the sort of shit a good society would prevent when possible
- jondwillis 1y agoWhat good society?
- almostgotcaught 1y ago> It is no one's right to take advantage of the naive just because they are naive. Lol give me a break - this isn't cigarettes or homeopathic medicine we're talking about here. It's AI bullshit and primarily the "people" getting take advantage of are just other greedy corporations.
- themafia 1y agoThose of us who are not sociopaths do experience some anger at this outcome. The thing you haven't noticed is the "freedom to lie" is not equal among companies and is directly controlled by "market capitalization." You have dreams of swimming with the big fish but you will almost certainly never attain them, while simultaneously, selling out every other option you could have had to genuinely improve everyone's lot in life. My point is you present the attitude of a crab in a bucket... and, uh, that's not exactly liberty you're climbing towards.
- scotty79 1y agoI'm sure some people thought that too seeing first phones with color displays that could run software that costed 10 times as much as a normal phone. I know I thought that when they said they are the future I was very skeptical. In few years iPhone happened, then Android and even I got myself one. Things seem ridiculous until some of them just become common. Other claims just fade away.
- Apocryphon 1y agoWasn't it a nonprofit at one point
- astrange 1y agoWhat stock value? OpenAI and Anthropic are private. (If they were public it'd be illegal to lie to investors - if you think this you should sue them for securities fraud.)
- bluefirebrand 1y ago> illegal to lie to investors Unfortunately, in practice it's only illegal if they can prove you lied on purpose As for your other point, hype feeds into other financial incentives like acquiring customers, not just stocks. Stocks was just the example I reached for. You're right it's not the best example for private companies. That's my bad
- teruza 1y agoExtremely accurate. Each and every single OpenAI employee just got a 1.5 Million USD Bonus. They must be printing money!
- ceejayoz 1y agoCharitable of you to think it's "printing money" and not "burning investors' cash".
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