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What part of the AI experiment is the grift exactly? The tools work as advertised and are currently priced way cheaper than they cost to create?
by spicyusername 10mo ago
What part of the AI experiment is the grift exactly?
The tools work as advertised and are currently priced way cheaper than they cost to create?
- parliament32 10mo agoPutting "Intelligence" in the name of a hallucinatory text generator?
- franga2000 10mo agoThe tools very commonly don't work as advertised tho, but people still buy them because of the incredible promises of increased efficiency. And since it's usually not easy to measure, they keep paying, sometimes companies even force their employees to use it. It's an even bigger grift from the POV of companies building AI into their products - investors pressure companies to add AI features, managers demand thing that aren't achievable, developers bodge things together because they know it's worthless, marketing sells it like it's perfect, customers don't actually want it so sales bundles it into every plan and increases the price. Number go up, everyone gets a promotion. The customer has no alternatives because everyone else is doing the same.
- bigbadfeline 10mo ago> The tools work as advertised and are currently priced way cheaper than they cost to create? Well, that's the grift problem right there - some people use public funds to subsidize a product, undermine the competition, front-run and scalp the hardware market, create inflation for everything, misallocate capital and deprive other assets of investment, all the while attempting a vendor lock-in at somebody else's expense. Why would anybody see any of these as good is beyond me.