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The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ooli to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure this is true, most of recent big tech changes seem to have been driven through a "invest a lot at loss, then monetize" model. So I don't think this relies on demand anymore.

[–] twack 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where do you think the money for the monetize step comes from if it's not demand?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Funding, right?

Don't companies like Twitter, Uber, OpenAI, Bumble etc. fully rely on them for growth and try to actually be profitable once they have reached all the audience they can have?

As a user this is especially infuriating because many of these service have an expiration date, for example there will be a new dating app every so often, which will start its enshitification process after about 2 years.