It's clearly going to take the tech industry a while to understand that the "AI" brand is well and truly toxic

If you have a software or feature, sell it on what it does for people. If it's actually useful, then calling it "AI" will just make people assume it's yet another money-grabbing con.

Especially if you aren't using an LLM or diffusion model and instead are just using a non-generative ML model. Why willingly adopt all that negative baggage when you don't have to?

@baldur Even more so when they're B2B businesses because the hype has gone from the tech industry to another industry and it then comes back to the tech companies that serve this industry, all with a delay. Unraveling will have a delay too.