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A Boring Dystopia
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They made a thing that does nothing useful, but was novel. They paid the top consulting firms hundreds of millions to invent a "use" for it.
Then in the typical C-Suite Circle Jerk fashion, everybody started cumming on each others backs as they forced LLM down everyone's throats not realizing that there was no use because they are hired for their willingness to be cold and cruel to employees in the pursuit of their goals and deference to authority, not their intelligence, perception or skills.
We've pissed away trillions on stupid, by stupid and for stupid.
The worst part is it is useful, and almost none of the planet burning was necessary.
We could have just had siri, but actually useful. Instead we lose the Internet to slop and companies are literally selling their futures to get people to use siri, but it require a quarter second on a top of the line server rack, instead of 20 seconds on your phone