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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Submitted 1 week ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We let tech and advertising companies whose ultimate goal and generator of revenue is to sell things to users by convincing them of things, and they created LLMs that they are using to sell LLMs to users by convincing them that the LLMs are great, something they are in fact uncannily good at. Finally, we have closed the loop. The sales pitch is the product. The product is the sales pitch. Everyone will just fall down the AI rabbithole and never come out again, all productive work will cease, all dollars will be consumed. ???, profit.