The AI industry is a grift so big that it's really hard to explain it to people not familiar with the tech industry.

Yes, Google is perfectly aware their AI-powered search is way worse than their "classic" mode.

Yes, Apple knows their integration with chatGPT is flaky and ads nothing useful to their products. And

They.

Don't.

Care.

Because the goal is not making their products better, the goal is to ride the hype wave so the investors are happy and their stock price keeps growing.

That's almost entirely what's powering the AI industry.

It's a multibillon dollar grift. One so big and so obvious that most people think they have to be missing something, that they don't understand something that makes everything to make it makes sense as a business.

No. That's everything. It's pure snake oil selling.
@javi It's that. But it's also a massive bet that if it will work out (definition pending) that you'd better be on the right side.
That's the thing. It can't work out. They are selling something that not only doesn't exist, but also something that there is no actual path to get to from the current technology

@javi They believe there is a non-zero chance to make it work.

It's repeating the pattern we have seen with autonomous driving and every car company jumping on it because they're scared what would happen to them if it did work out.