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It never ceases to amaze me how companies can hate consumer money so much. They all know we all fucking hate AI and yet no one refuses to crank up the money generating machine by giving consumers what they want. It's like they have an ulterior motive or something.
Because companies don't serve customers. They serve shareholders.
AI is the hotness right now and every boards of directors wants to know what the company plans to do with AI.
Not just shareholders. We've had several employees asking how is our company leveraging AI, or why he haven't implemented AI into our products. We don't sell anything even closely related to tech. Hell, our product doesn't even use electricity. It's insane
On interviews? Why do you think they do that?
Are they afraid your company will get “left behind,” or something?
On townhall meetings, or whenever we have open forums to discuss things with executive management
Yeah people underestimate how widely the AI mind virus has spread. Some people are addicted to it, they can't live without it. It's all they can talk about, or think about.
People on Lemmy hate AI. People who have even a modicum of knowledge about AI hate AI.
Get outside your echo chamber and 90% just blindly accept AI. They make images with it. They use AI search results as “research”. They quote AI results.
It’s the blind 90% they cater to. Not us.
I’d say 90% is pretty high.
My sample size of “a few people not on Lemmy or Reddit” hate AI shoved in their faces. They may use ChatGPT some, or Copilot at work because they have to, but that’s it. They are interested in that AI specifically, not their fridge generating body horror on demand.
I"ve had my uncle, complete luddite, ask me how to get his computer to stop bothering him about AI because "I don't understand it."
Interesting. I imagine some people (especially older folks) might find it a bit spooky. So human, but also not? How to make sense of it? It’s like the uncanny valley of technology, and I wouldn’t be surprised if people who weren’t raised with tech find it particularly unsettling.
Most my friends hate AI, though that's probably biased. But even my mom hates AI because it's shoved everywhere
Id say its probbaly more like 95% lol.
Most humans are idiots with computers, just how it is.
IDK I'm hopeful. My 55 year old co-worker who's basically tech illiterate loudly explained "OMG more AI bullshit, get this crap off my screen!" The other day when copilot popped up in her Outlook.
Because there really isn't any money in building things people actually want. Creating an actually useful product takes investments in infrastructure and labour, all the things that shareholders hate.
In our economy we don't make money by building things, we make money by withholding things and selling access to them.
It's why the monied class is so obsessed with AI. It sells the dream that you can not only get rid of labour cost, but actually make money off of selling access to the simulacrum of it.
Thanks—that’s very well stated.
It's also infinitely scaling. There's no need to worry about the human logistics side of it when it's all a bunch of software that can, theoretically, scale forever.
Business people are so separated from the rest of the world they have no idea how your average person operates. "Whaddaya mean people don't like the robot that will kill jobs at the cost of the environment?!" People who need jobs and live in the environment- :|
Investor money is so much more than consumer money...