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[–] billiam0202 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're all terrified of being the one missing out on The Next Big Thing(tm). And so they'll jump on anything that has even a remote chance of making the line go up, lest their line not go up while their competitors' lines do.

[–] Mirshe 3 points 1 month ago

Basically this. All of them got spooked by missing Bitcoin before Bitcoin was worth infinite money, and a good chunk missed out on NFTs before THEY were worth thousands of dollars too

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Companies don’t serve their customers. They serve their shareholders. And if jamming AI into everything will attract investment because “the next ChatGPT” then that is what they’ll do.

[–] f314 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Companies, under capitalism, don’t serve their customers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] athairmor 15 points 1 month ago

That’s not why. It’s more like FOMO.

They don’t want to be the one left behind because they didn’t jump on the latest hype train. If AI hype fizzles, most of these companies will just carry on like it wasn’t a thing or it’ll get incorporated in a more modest form and called something else.

The same thing happened with crypto/nft/blockchain. There’s a few still trying to milk that cow but most who tried just turned and left it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI is cheaper than employees, plus you get to ride the hype train!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I'm surprised there's not more talk here about the likelihood they are speculatively investing in AI to see how viable it will be to replace employees with, if they haven't already been able to do so. Seems among other industries, we're on our way to journalistic AI slop and fake film actors, in the spirit of 1984.

You can't make the line go up by investing in something that makes more sales even less likely.

[–] ZILtoid1991 11 points 1 month ago

Also a reason why a lot of companies went "full out on MAGA" was due to the rejection of AI by most people left of republicans, while the latter group fully embraced it. Before that, they played both sides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean that's literally true, but also I don't think quantum computing really belongs on the list.