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 remember how a couple a shitheels figured out the subprime mortgages were going to implode and made a fortune betting on that collapse? How do we do that with AI?

@WNC_Wobbly @javi the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

A lot of people predicted the subprime meltdown, but only a handful got the timing right. We don't hear about the 100,000 guys who lost their shirt shorting subprime lending. Only the lucky 5 who made millions.