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The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

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117 points LordAtlas | 4 comments | 07 Dec 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thelastgallon ◴[07 Dec 25 18:47 UTC] No.46183990[source]▶
AI is the only 'technology' that nobody knows what it solves. If it is a fridge, people buy it. If its a dishwasher, people buy it. The use cases of these technologies are immediately understood. AI is pushed down hard by the 'leaders', C-suite is pushing everyone to use AI at most companies. Nobody knows what its supposed to help with but a great many people claim 'success' with AI. Every full text search that was perfectly working before got converted to AI search and is instantly 100x worse. Same with lots of customer facing FAQs, customer support, etc.

Meanwhile, 67% of my time is gone fixing autocorrect on apple devices.

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lkbm ◴[07 Dec 25 18:50 UTC] No.46184023[source]▶
A million different people: I've used AI in X way and it helped me.

You: No one knows anything AI helps with.

Yeah, okay, if you ignore everything every user says then it is indeed a mystery.

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1. AstroBen ◴[07 Dec 25 18:54 UTC] No.46184053[source]▶
How much astroturfing is happening online? These companies certainly have the funds to do so on a wide scale

The only thing I trust about these right now is my own experience

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2. bgwalter ◴[07 Dec 25 19:03 UTC] No.46184131[source]▶
This is how it is done openly with clearly Grok-edited or written comments:

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1997307084853870793#m

One can only imagine the amount of covert promotion.

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3. AstroBen ◴[07 Dec 25 19:18 UTC] No.46184237[source]▶
From another industry: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1p7kmbn/i_was_paid_to_...

I don't have much proof, but given the incentives and the possibility of doing it I'd be surprised if it wasn't happening everywhere. How much would be enough to pay the top 50 influencers in a market to push something? To hire 100 people to be active full time on all social media sites? To a company with billions they wouldn't even notice the expense

Default to skepticism and double down on your critical thinking skills. More important than ever today

4. mattgreenrocks ◴[08 Dec 25 00:47 UTC] No.46187057[source]▶
I’m sure it is. Though I can never tell if it is astroturfing or extremely weird AI maximalists just reminding us that they’re in a cult.