It’s weird that high tech CEOs didn’t learn the most valuable lesson from the Metaverse: people are not stupid. If they don’t like something, selling it to them harder is not going to make them like it more. It’s simply not solving their life’s problems.
AI behaves much the same way. It’s not that it’s useless, it’s that faced with the actual cost, its usefulness shrinks to almost nothing. People dislike AI because they know better, not because they are too stupid to see.
I honestly think a lot of the people pushing this stuff know very well that they don’t need it to succeed. They don’t really care if the general public hates it, and it flops. As long as they can convince investors, they’re pulling yearly paycheques and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. If it flops, some thousand employees (thralls) will be layed off. If it fails catastrophically, they might need to step down themselves, and move to a different company that “appreciates their ability to be a visionary”.
These people are only capable of failing upwards, and they know it. The name of the game for them is waving their arms and blabbering about something to draw in investor money.
Right now, they are sitting on social media platforms that can’t see meaningful growth and a messaging platform near the same. Nothing that Meta has tried to create after either defends their existing revenue streams from dying or creates a new revenue stream.
Without significant change, Meta is a decade away from being another AOL.
It’s weird that high tech CEOs didn’t learn the most valuable lesson from the Metaverse: people are not stupid. If they don’t like something, selling it to them harder is not going to make them like it more. It’s simply not solving their life’s problems.
AI behaves much the same way. It’s not that it’s useless, it’s that faced with the actual cost, its usefulness shrinks to almost nothing. People dislike AI because they know better, not because they are too stupid to see.
Uh. Looks around at the state of the world
I honestly think a lot of the people pushing this stuff know very well that they don’t need it to succeed. They don’t really care if the general public hates it, and it flops. As long as they can convince investors, they’re pulling yearly paycheques and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. If it flops, some thousand employees (thralls) will be layed off. If it fails catastrophically, they might need to step down themselves, and move to a different company that “appreciates their ability to be a visionary”.
These people are only capable of failing upwards, and they know it. The name of the game for them is waving their arms and blabbering about something to draw in investor money.
Nah. Meta needs something to grow.
Right now, they are sitting on social media platforms that can’t see meaningful growth and a messaging platform near the same. Nothing that Meta has tried to create after either defends their existing revenue streams from dying or creates a new revenue stream.
Without significant change, Meta is a decade away from being another AOL.
This article was written by ai and used an ai image.
This article was written by award-winning verifiably-human journalist James Ball.
The image is credited to Benny Douet, a human professional illustrator with a legit body of work which stylistically matches said image.
By all means call out slop when it appears, but this isn’t it.