Engagement = encouragement.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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It's losing them money. We're encouraging those who don't change to fail organically. It's like getting away with murder because we're at war.
By encouraging them by using the AI, you are generating justification for the cost, which doesn't grow per user and time spent in a meaningful amount.
If you don't use it, they will have wasted money on implementation and support, and then will have pissed that money away by ending it and having to hire people or switching to a non-AI chatbot.
You won't bankrupt the company by using their AI garbage.
Shiet, I thought you were talking about taking up arms and literally taking AI data centers
That would require a comma after "take it"
That's an implied solution we should've taken up first.
Most of those AI chat bots have no AI in them. It is just the latest trend to sell chat bots to replace humans.
If you really want to rally against AI chat bots, get it to say something the company doesn't want it to say like "if you buy X you get y for free" but when the store doesn't honour it you take then to court because it has been ruled companies need to honour information from their websites.
When a bird shits on you eat it, that will show them.
That's.... Not how this works.
The powers that be only look at a few charts, and a few data points on each.
The big one is sales over time, possibly broken down to gross vs net revenue (i.e. profit)
The next will be the amount that customers use AI. Could be a binary "interacted at all", measured in interactions, or by time.
The final MIGHT be % of interactions that led to a sale.
The ONLY way to fight AI (or anything else that corporations do that you object to) is to stop or reduce buying from places that use it.
You can just make them talk to one of those shitty models from the early 2010s