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The Guardian doing more of God's work to sustain the AI bubble (lemmy.ca)
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"Hype hype hype fomo fomo hype fearmongering hype fearmongering hype fomo fomo fomo fearmongering..."

edit Wait, these secret communists AREN'T THEY!??? See only anti-americans are against AI!!!!!!!!

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[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yup, it is part of the same marketing scheme whether intentional or not which is to hallucinate that AI is powerful, profitable or widely useful. Putting a fear based spin on it or a positive, hope based spin on it doesn't change that fundamental fact that the process begins with hallucinating AI is a real industry on anywhere the scale it is pretending to be right now with essentially unlimited fake money.