a lot of people i know irl including me like ai,however when i use reddit or youtube or whatever i see a dozen ai bad content. why is that? surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage
a lot of people i know irl including me like ai,however when i use reddit or youtube or whatever i see a dozen ai bad content. why is that? surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage
Yeah, no offense but you certainly write like someone who likes AI. I’ll give you that.
Odds are you like AI because it makes you feel like you can do things that you couldn’t in the past due to a lack of talent or skills.
Because AI sucks, both in terms of the quality of what is produced as well as the effort by which people use it to produce “content”.
It’s primary real use is for fraudulence and con artistry. Furthermore, it’s a direct affront to humanity and culture. It is the for-profit technological strip mining of all of human knowledge, art and creativity for the benefit of the ultra wealthy investor class, in spite of the rules regarding intellectual property that they themselves created. It’s also intellectually lazy, often wrong, and making us all stupider. Finally, it is an exploitative technology that is being used to replace and subvert human workers.
In other words, generative AI is practically indefensible. There’s almost nothing good to say about it, so what do you expect people to say?
Are you familiar with the concept of an investment bubble?
The basic idea is that investors at large end up putting waaaaay too much money into a speculative asset, to the point where its market value greatly exceeds its practical/intrinsic value to the economy itself. We’ve seen this happen countless times in modern human history, from real estate bubbles, to the “.com bubble”, to Dutch tulips.
In capitalism, value is subjective. You might value something a lot more than I do, or vice versa. But it’s also possible for things to be generally overvalued or undervalued by society as a whole.
Regardless how any of us feel about AI (for or against), it is objectively overvalued by investors. Anthropic was recently valued at nearly a $1,000,000,000,000, roughly the same market value as massive giants like Samsung or Walmart, despite being a company that has only ever lost money.