Why did the snake oil salesman grow old and die? Same reason.
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That's the neat part.
Because it's only capable of producing slop.
To be fair, a reasonable answer would be the same as any reseller or value-added business. They have some skill, capital, or existing market capture that the whole seller does not.
Don't get me wrong it can still be bullshit, but it's actually pretty common.
They're selling hype, not technology
The only upside to this is that all of these actual idiots puting money into this will lose that money, and hopefully put this reigh of speculation to an end for dacades.
You think google isn't a profitable business?
google is now a NET NEGATIVE on businesses ask ai about how much it inflates costs of product they said at least 15-30% of the product is inflated if you click on the google link to their product.
one would have thought google ads would account for 1-2% at most but since it now costs 15-30% of a product google has now become net NEGATIVE value on the world and should in fact be shut down same with meta and all ad corporations.
The plan is, broadly speaking, to commoditize intelligence. Instead of selling train cars filled with hogs, their train cars are filled with the next token, thought, or action.
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