alt Hacker News>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “
Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI.
It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought.
Business is also noticing that the ROI simply isn’t there and a lot written about this. That doesn’t bode well for AI providers that need to massively increase prices to make the math work on their business models.
The world inside of the AI bubble seems largely ignorant of the mood shift underway, which suggests interesting times are ahead.
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I think it's just hard to know this for the people working on it. AI radically changed my life. I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. I've been listening to people around me talking about alignment and the singularity for almost a decade. It's strange to imagine that people live in a world where this isn't and hasn't been happening for a while now. "Over-hyped" is not the word I would use if I take my daily experience as an example, nor when I consider even lower-bound projections.
To say it briefly:
>Why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them
They are.
I agree, and with a little nuance:
There's a lot of overlap between people who cannot stand the AI boosters, don't want a data center built anywhere near them, are sick of the slop, and still use a chatbot for some stuff.
I don't think this is hypocrisy. I don't think it's a contradiction at all.
It suggests that people actually like natural language interfaces where they make sense and the price is reasonable. What they don't like is the rhetoric, behavior, impact on electricity prices, insistence on cramming it into places where it doesn't belong, layoffs, threats, and general obnoxiousness of the people pushing it and their general milieu.
Which makes perfect sense.
Agreed. This place is legit delululand.
I speak to people who work at the upper echelons across various industries regularly and whether you want to believe it or not idc - the management are desperately trying to push AI but it just doesn’t add much value to what they do. At best it’s just a really good search engine across internal data. Many of these places already had things called macros in place so there’s barely any value add.