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| The writing is not great, but the point is true by Derivative Draper Today, 12:42am PDT | ||||
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| Ed Zitron said it a lot better.
Tech is desperate for another massive breakthrough product to continue chasing the endless growth dragon, but there hasn't been a viable product that anyone has wanted since smartphones, social media, and cloud computing. They tried NFTs and they tried VR. AI is the latest desperate hype push, but this time they're sinking over ten times the money into desperately making it happen. Sam Altman conned a bunch of early investors which set off a cascade mixture of panic and opportunism. They are SO desperate to force this white elephant on us with Copilot and AI Overview, and no one wants it. They promise a new trillion dollar industry but the reality is more like VR: a kind of neat niche thing where the market is maybe 3% of THE FUTURE that they're claiming. Of course, VR didn't require energy gobbling data centers and didn't promise to obliterate labor. The proof against can be summed up by being years into this hype and not only has the product barely improved, but they STILL can't come up with any coherent use cases or any reason anyone should want it (nobody had to convince you why an iPhone was useful in 2006). Superbowl commercials, the absolute best they have to convince you, and all they could come up with was Matthew McConaughey sitting in the rain. Not even the commercials for the Crypto push fell this flat. |
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"I Am An AI Hater". What do you guys think? by 09/02/2025, 8:16am PDT  Pity for the author. NT by 09/02/2025, 12:24pm PDT Old man yells at computer by 09/03/2025, 10:25pm PDT The writing is not great, but the point is true by Today, 12:42am PDT |
