These virtual assistants are entirely a sham to artifically drive up stock value. This is how it works:
- Company A is big tech that invested billions of dollars building up a LLM model that nobody asked for to increase it's stock value
- Company A incorporates its AI model into all of its products even if nobody wants them to, once again, artificially increase the stock price
- When company A runs out of places in its own products to shove the AI, it moves over to company B where it does everything in its power to convince them get the AI and incorporate it into everything
- Company B sees company A's sham and wants in, and so it buys the AI and smears its feces on all its products to artificially inflate its own stock price.
- When Company B is exhausted, company A moves on to company C, D, E, and so on and so forth.
In the end all the companies, or more specifically, all the executives, win in the short term by making billions upon billions by artificially increasing stock prices and thus creating a bubble. They're the only winners. Regular employees at these companies still get treated like shit, consumers are getting much worse products, and the economy is doomed to another recession due to their actions... but that won't stop them because they know the people won't do shit, the government is in their pockets and won't stop them, and if a recession does really happen, they're confident they'll get bailed out.
