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 And their biggest investors are more than likely those also invested in the multi TRILLION dollar fossil-fuel extraction/consumption industries, who are going to be /very/ happy to have people pissing away ever increasing amounts of energy on this crap, given the success society has had in moving towards greener transport and energy production/consumption, /anywhere else/.

"Since 2019, electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies have overtaken cars and crude oil for the number one position in terms of overall exports by value."

I WONDER WHY?