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[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

I will repeat this over and over. AI is not for you or for me, we are users of the byproduct which is money exchange. Look at search engines, google is perfect example. AI just makes it so that we users can make simple queries and get answers, Google did that too and then became this monster which makes absolutely nothing, but searching the internet is easier and billions in ad revenue.

Some may argue there are some of us power users find beneficial use of AI, but we are small subset of users who in many cases were already smart enough to do the work. I love cowork for that reason, I share code I’ve written, projects with epics and work items and cowork makes the next project just like I did. What took a week, takes hours. Time which I now spend learning the next actual thing, quantum computing.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 17 minutes ago

For those who are fed up by Google's shitty searches, try Qwant!

Kagi is also good, but it's paid.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 4 points 41 minutes ago

When you read Stephenson and miss the point altogether.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's weird that high tech CEOs didn't learn the most valuable lesson from the Metaverse: people are not stupid. If they don't like something, selling it to them harder is not going to make them like it more. It's simply not solving their life's problems.

AI behaves much the same way. It's not that it's useless, it's that faced with the actual cost, its usefulness shrinks to almost nothing. People dislike AI because they know better, not because they are too stupid to see.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago

I honestly think a lot of the people pushing this stuff know very well that they don't need it to succeed. They don't really care if the general public hates it, and it flops. As long as they can convince investors, they're pulling yearly paycheques and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. If it flops, some thousand employees (thralls) will be layed off. If it fails catastrophically, they might need to step down themselves, and move to a different company that "appreciates their ability to be a visionary".

These people are only capable of failing upwards, and they know it. The name of the game for them is waving their arms and blabbering about something to draw in investor money.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If they had been smart, they would have bought VRchat and Rec Room and left the teams alone to figure out how to merge those existing worlds and grow organically from there.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 32 minutes ago

That couldn't possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta's virtual corporate dystopia.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Will Meta also rename themselves when the shutdown occurs?

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 7 points 2 hours ago

Yes to AIslop

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Meta F(utures) U(nlimited)

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

Meta FU? I ain't gonna lie, that sounds sus.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

Good, I made it up as a joke.

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 7 points 2 hours ago

Who has the time to play in the metaverse? To actually put up with VR or normal gaming even you need to have 1+ consecutive hours to spend. Grown ups dont have that kind of time. Wasnt meta one of the first companies to jump the RTO bandwagon? Even further diminishing the little time we have...

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Lots of user generated content across most platforms is poorly designed nonsense.