What if I'm a billionaire trying to crush the working class and accelerate climate change and political division so the class war doesn't pop off before i can get to my climate bunker?

Or a billionaire fascist who wants to sloppify everyone's brains and increase alienation while annihilating interiority so people will become docile and the class war won't pop off and we get the 1984 timeline?

Or a billionaire asshole who wanted to murder a concept and settled on 'truth'?

Or a really big 'infinite jest' fan?

So "ai" has a lot of use cases. Maybe dont be such a reflexive reactionary fucking Luddite piece of shit about it.

[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Every decade has at least one of these buzzwords (multimedia, internet/ online, social media, mobile app, blockchain, cryptocoins, micropayment, delivery, ai,...).. They can be used to attract dumb investor's money but they have their useful sides too.

Ok. They are just buzzwords which outline a set of tools. They are worthless without a realizable concept with a benefit for the end-user. And the use of the right tool for the job. So, I'm not sure about useful cryptocoins and blockchain use cases (I wouldn't count financial speculation as particularly useful).

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Every time somebody starts raving about some tech, it'll turn out to be a classic hype cycle.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This isnt productive, and the hype is the largest I have ever seen. Ireland–a wealthy developed tech savvy nation–isnt building new homes to address their housing crisis because this shit is taking all the energy and water.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's true. The tech bros are playing the market by blowing bubble after bubble and raising the stakes each time.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gotta ask what the supervillain-ass end game is.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 6 days ago

Some think they can crash everything, burn it to the ground, to then rebuild it according to their designs.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That graph is peak bullshit.

Just because you believe the hype, it doesn't mean there's a milder use case for your application.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately LLM do have one profitable application: generating spam and astroturfing

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

"According to this chart we made up without any explanation, blockchain and nfts and metaverse are going to be pretty useful tools in the future. Just because they were trendy once."

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me the Segway never came back up

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 5 days ago

The tech itself though is still used in hoverboards, robots and some other self balancing micro mobility devices.

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