Dropbox is the next company firing a significant amount of people to pursue the magical dragon "AI". Dropbox. A service that people just want to store their files, sync properly and make them shareable.
Sure they need some bullshit generators. The whole tech sector is just brain worms these days.
@mjgardner @tante The economic forces behind public punditry and analysis don't incentivize truth or correctness, and often discourage it. A few rare public analysts aim for correctness and rigor, but they're unusual and fighting against the system they're in.
Which... actually I suspect would argue against AI, since random generally-analysis-shaped output is less well tailored towards the needs and purpose of public punditry than what we actually have.
@mjgardner @tante They're pundit-*shaped*, sure, but the point of punditry isn't to fill air time/word count with blather, it's generally to push a particular agenda (or company, or client portfolio) which still requires more understanding of things than the current LLMs have.
...OK, actually, I think I may have argued myself out of this -- we would probably be net better as a species if punditry was random machine generated bullshit than what we have now.
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