I’ll believe CEOs are actually confused or offended the day business articles start giving equal time to labor and capital voices
The lies don’t work as manipulation when purchasers and other dumb execs actually use the tools and see what their uses and limitations actually are vs what they are sold to be able to do. So they switch to how could you or it’s not good now but next quarter fomo.
They are confused about much they are very much not at all connected to the average person.
Everyone understands the Tech CEOs bonuses depend on AI replacing human employees. Or at least the ones with rights.
I always get psyched to read articles like this and too often they’re just little stubs. I feel like the second this one gets going it just ends.
Yeah, I feel you.
It makes me crave analysis like Cory Doctorow often does when covering this stuff on his blog. Fuck performing some misplaced notion of “neutral reporting” — the matter at hand is far from neutral, so let’s be honest and call these abominable turd crumpets out for what they are
Aww, did we hurt the poor CEOs fee fees again? 🥺
"We are working on a technology that will accelerate climate change while hopefully making most of the population unemployed in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life, if even that! What? Why are you all booing?
Spot on, Dude over a 100 upvotes, I think this is the most upvoted comment I’ve ever seen on Lemmy, ha.
But but don’t you understand, AI will allow them to reduce spending, if you only look at wages paid to humans and ignore the material costs of all the infrastructure and propaganda about how great it is
“We’re only trying to make all of your jobs obsolete while paying politicians to not tax us, making all consumer electronics outrageously expensive or inaccessible, getting obscenely wealthy by stealing your works of art, making your power bill more expensive, consuming all of your water supply, and accelerating climate change. Why aren’t you clapping?”
“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang in a January interview about the “battle of [AI] narratives.”
Isn’t admitting you are confused and hurt by why customers don’t like a product tantamount to admitting complete incompetence as a CEO?
No, this isn’t an accident. It’s a PR ploy, and done entirely on purpose. The idea is to push the people who aren’t critical towards AI to their side. By being confused and not understanding why people are so mad at these innocent little men just doing their best to bring something good to humanity, they’re humanising themselves. Most anyone can relate to fears of having their hard work rejected by others, and they’re playing on that.
I wish people would stop platforming this nonsense.
They regard themselves thought leaders. They are confused why their thoughts aren’t being followed en masse.
EDIT: just explaining their logic as I suspect it, not condoning anything here :)
“Thought leaders” is one of the most ridiculous bullshit phrases to ever come out of the English language
I work for a CEO who constantly uses this phrase.
What sort of “thoughts” has he led with, you ask? Blockchain, then crypto, then AI. That leadership feels an awful lot like trend-chasing to me… but I guess that’s why I don’t make the big bucks.
What phrase would you recommend?
Knob head?
Dick weed, dip shit, fuck wit, bell sniff, bell end, cock end, cock head?
Con man.
Loud guy.
Master of Headassery
They all think they are Steve Jobs, and while he certainly isn’t anywhere close to the genius messiah they believe him to be and was also a giant asshole, he was also far more on the pulse of what people want and don’t than any of these absolute fools.
Why would it be? None of the critics are his customers. He sells hardware to Altman, Nadella and the other Koolaid drinkers that run the slop infrastructure.
The handful of people that privately buy NVIDIAs incredibly overpriced GPUs for their private gaming PCs aren’t the focus anymore.
He sells hardware to Altman, Nadella and the other Koolaid drinkers that run the slop infrastructure.
He gives money to Altman so Altman can use that money to pay for Nvidia purchases… totally sustainable and normal business model
NVIDIA is one of the biggest AI investors on earth. They own more of this than just about anyone. They are paying their customers to buy their shit.
When your job is to play golf and post your Philosophy 101-level “deep thoughts” on Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing that LLMs can do real work.
I bet AI would do a better job.
You know, in my days when I learned economics I was taught to come up with a new plan if the business doesn’t work and the customer does not buy/pay. Else I have failed.
And not whine about things hurting…
Why the fuck should we care about their ‘feelings’ when their rapist mentality fucks up the world. Lie, steal, cheat for a solution in search of a problem so they can make money by making people lose money and become unemployed.
They’re fueled by hopium and shit out false dreams. Basically they’re the Boiler Room or pinksheet Wolf of Wall Street, trying to trick as many investors as they can to swallow their shill.
Although some may actually believe their own hype in a deeply egotistical way, like Jared Leto’s character in the Blade Runner sequel.
Jensen can suck my Huang for being such an idiotic shill of vaporware tech that is simultaneously undermining something like 30-40% of the fucking GDP at this point. Fuck you, dude. You’re actively accelerating us towards an economic depression that is going to fucking dwarf 2008.
Jensen can suck my Huang
If I was in charge of coming up with ironic punishments, I would lock him in a data center with the cooling turned off. Let’s see if he or his chips give out first.
The meatbag would fail first; the hardware would probably limp along and thermal throttle for a good stretch of time before fully cooking itself and getting bricked.
That said, conducting the experiment would confirm these assertions, so it’s probably still worth doing.
In June 2008 SP500 was 1361 points before it dropped to 700 points in February 2009 so 48%. Now SP500 is 6943 points if it drops by 48% that be 3610 points. It’s only drop to state from October 2022. I don’t think it would change much. We need to go deeper.
“I can’t believe how ungrateful they are that we found a more efficient way to kill them!” Paraphrasing here.
This product is going to take your job, bit to make it work we need to use all the electricity and water, making them more expensive. We also need to steal all the user data in the world. Why does nobody like it?
the number of US AI users who regularly paid for the privilege stood at a whopping 3 percent
That’s product designed for millionaires entertainment not for people.
As of 2024, the number of millionaires in the U.S. was around 23.8 million. That means roughly 1 in 15 people in the U.S. has a net worth of at least seven figures.
1/15*100 = 6.66%Just owning a house in some areas will give you that net worth. It’s not like you don’t have to work full time and you’re just jet-setting around the world all day.
It’s basically what we used to call “middle class.” Not even upper middle class.
They’ve definitely got a marketing problem at the very least. What is the value of AI to an individual that does not correlate to creating more value to their workplace? That needs to be the focus. While there are arguments for and against the value of AI in increasing productivity, at the end of the day, I don’t fundamentally care about my productivity level unless it creates some form of incentive for me. So I’m not being paid more but I MAY produce more. Yay??? What’s the sell here? Why as a standard human would I value this to the point that they value it? I see it negatively harming the things I like such as the internet, music, political discourse, books, and television. What’s the benefit that I personally see? Unless they can drill that value into the masses, they are going to have an image problem.
I don’t particularly hate the snake oil, I hate the salesmen.
I hate both.
But if we got rid of the salesman, just imagine how much snake oil we could drink! We could open ethical snake butchering farms, democratize where we dump the poisonous runoff, and send some of it to Africa - they’re so unsnakeoiled over there.
And surely only the current crop of salesmen are the bad guys, right? There couldn’t possibly be a new villain waiting to pick up where Elon and Jensen left off.
I’ll paraphrase something I saw a few weeks ago and now cannot find, sums up my feelings pretty well.
The people I love hate AI, and the people I hate love AI. But the things that intrigued me about technology in the first place also intrigues me about this technology.
I mean. There would be no salesman if the snake oil didn’t exist.
Also snake oil refers to a fake product. Why would you “not hate” the fake product? At its foundation the sole purpose of the existence of snake oil is to be disingenuous and scam customers.
Hate the game not the player.
I think you’re taking my comment a bit too literally. My big problem with AI is who is pushing it and how much they’re pushing it.
I disagree. If not snake oil it would be something else. There are certain personality traits salesman seem to all have. I would describe it as a comfort with being disingenuous. Say or do anything to get money. Its often portrayed as “hustle culture” and praised. We should be condemning those traits not praising them.
The only AI feature I have found to be working well is the AI integrated into Jira.
It does an excellent (but pointless) job of summarizing ticket communications.
I say pointless because there is no reason to use it.
However, it does understand Swedish slang and summarizes it properly.
