this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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I’m in IT at an upper level and know painfully well what “AI” really is and that it’s not the disruptor people think it will be. However I feel like I can’t post it anywhere without being judged about it as almost every exec I know has bought into it hook, line and sinker. Even other people I talk to about the issues and limitations look at me like I’m completely weird “you’re in IT and you don’t embrace AI? wtf is wrong with you?”

So what do you all do? I don’t want to make things career limiting but I feel like I’m screaming in the dark seeing where things will really go. It reminds me a lot of the move to cloud and everyone going all in on it without knowing the real ramifications.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

AI is good at convincing people of things, because that's what it was designed to do by companies whose only hope of ever making money is by convincing people of things. The first thing they did with it was to use it to convince people that AI is good at actual things beyond just convincing people of things, and it was and continues to be a riotous success at that, proving the concept is completely sound. Ironically this actually leads to real use cases when your own goal is to convince other people of things, but it doesn't mean that AI is actually good at anything else.

That doesn't mean it won't have consequences though or that this is just the bubble many people hope it is. The ideology wars have begun and AI is a weapon of mass destruction.