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Sure, the automobile wiped out the horse and buggy industry. The difference is that the average person’s quality of life vastly improved as a result. Most genA
by mingus88 10mo ago
Sure, the automobile wiped out the horse and buggy industry. The difference is that the average person’s quality of life vastly improved as a result.
Most genAI has been laughably poor at doing what it’s advertised at doing for the average person. People didn’t ask and don’t need a shoddy summary of their text notifications and they don’t want AI to take away their creative hobbies.
- simonsarris 10mo agoPeople didn't ask for online shopping or computers in their pockets, and both of them started out as novelties. Many people thought they were overpromised fads. It's fine if genAI looks like the Palm Pilot today. Nothing says it will stay that way.
- mingus88 10mo agoAnd if it does, opinions may change. But right now it doesn’t and that’s what we are talking about. We saw rapid improvements in image and video generation but that’s actually proven to be super threatening to people, if not just embarrassing (see the Star Wars alien animal tech demo). After three years of this, most genAI is crap, it has made most services worse and people very understandably don’t like it. Where is the Siri that actually does what Apple announced back in 2024?