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Nobody Asked for AI
jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
jacobin.comNobody Asked for AIWe tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
I would say a lot of people would like competent assistants to do stuff like “Show me every email that mentions a hard drive order.” But not the AI they are trying to foist on us now.
Replying to @dan1101@lemmy.world
What drives me up a fucking wall these days is how people will use AI to make a more “professional” message, then due to it’s verbosity it needs an AI to summarize on the receiving end.
Replying to @4grams@awful.systems
My attitude is if you put no effort into creating something then I will put no effort into consuming it.
Replying to @dan1101@lemmy.world
My AI will talk to your AI.
Replying to @dan1101@lemmy.world
Yet when I tell that to our marketing department they just complain about how it would be expensive to pay someone to do it themselves. You get what you pay for, except in this instance where ai is expensive and still bad.
Replying to @4grams@awful.systems
I can tell when people use AI because it doesn’t sound professional. It’s not direct enough. It doesn’t get to the point and uses a lot of filler.
Replying to @cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
It sounds like how students think professional sounds.
Well, also some executives that I can’t stand that, if I didn’t know better, would swear were ChatGPT for decades…
Replying to @cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
That’s also some of us before our stimulant medication kicks in. I swear to fuck, if I get called AI one more time…