this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 146 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (32 children)

Everyone hates AI. And yet big corps keep trying to cram it down our throats in all sorts of ways in a desperate attempt to justify the ungodly amounts of money they've sunk into it.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We have invested in this!

So sick of this environment killer software being crammed down everyone's throats because the sunken cost is too great (and political nastiness).

You are not interrupting the market, just the customer base.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The budget reconciliation bill has a line in it that will make regulating AI illegal for a decade. Presumably this will mean that if they cram AI into a product it gives it magical protection.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Look at how they massacred my boy

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol wtf Zuck?! I can't fucking believe how imbecilic these fucking corporate ghouls are.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They "have" to put them to use, or they can't justify all the money they spent developing them. And they've realized that most people aren't interested, so they're starting to force it on people.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

It feels like every CEO on earth thinks they need to adopt AI or fall behind, but they have no idea what to use AI for so they're just ramming it into use cases that no one asked for.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I'm in tech, and yeah, while we actually do have a couple helpful (nothing revolutionary, just smoothes over some of the drudge work) use cases for Gen AI, we identified those use cases pretty quick and leadership's been grasping for more ever since.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday that basically was exactly this.

So yes. very much.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Your not wromg. The investors class want ai because that is what they belive will be the future. If the ceos don't add then the investors pull out. Even when most feedback is negative, even woth ai companies saying they don't have a path to profitability

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

This is hardly the first, and definitely not the last corporate fad. We should have just about finished moving everything to the block chain by now.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Exactly, except the company is Facebook fucking up the advertisements.

Also, art source (Bluesky)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Was at a whisky&rum fair a couple weeks ago. A bunch of brands had very AI looking designs on the bottles.

And that included Bottles of whisky that cost 200+ bucks.

I mean, who doesn't associate the name "whisky" with "woman in spacesuit tentacle porn" and "sexy woman santa"?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What the fuck lmfao.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Facebook and AI..........make it make sense.

Now you've got Facebook making AI posts and images. And you can click on a post and it'll give you suggested AI-generated responses. Soon Facebook won't need us humans at all, it'll just be AIs interacting with each other.

What's the business plan for Meta with that strategy? You can't sell ads to AIs, I assume...How do they plan to make money?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They've been faking their userbase numbers for ages now. They don't care about actual user engagement.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah they put a AI bot in my FB group whose first post was literally harmful information.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

You can tell that AI is a great technology by how much it's being forced into as many places as possible by the ones trying to sell it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Doordash is abusing AI similarly by adding product descriptions generated by AI if there isn't one. It includes things like ingredient lists, cooking styles, and quantitative descriptions that can all be entirely wrong. Gonna be fun when relying on the AI description causes an allergic reaction and serious injury or death.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My wife just hit similar, Google AI result invented a dish that didn't actually exist for a local restaurant. She was half ready to go until she went to the actual menu and figured out the described food didn't exist.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not necessarily dead internet theory, but I hate how everything seems to be AI generated nowadays. In the past when you search for something you are likely to find an article or a post about it, now it is just AI generated slop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

If you use an ad blocker, there are filters for ai slop such as https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the dude in the blue tank top is the guy who killed Inigo Montoya's father.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you. I noticed he had six fingers on his right hand and thought..."someone's been looking for him."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Let's lock everyone at home give them virtual friends and virtual messages and they will be happy. Literally Meta Strategy, Meta Human - Corporate Bacteria.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

AI is super expensive to run, yet these companies do EVERYTHING to make sure we are using it all the time - Microsoft is bundling it on every native app. They also openly admit they're not able to make it profitable even when considering the people paying expensive subscriptions to use it.

So isn't this contradiction suspicious? What's really the reason behind making sure we will use AI even when we didn't ask for it?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I suspect the plan was to dump it on everyone for free, get everyone reliant on it, then jack up the prices to make the investment back. Classic big tech play book, did it with cloud storage, did it with web hosting, did it with ride share.

But people haven’t really picked it up en mass, let alone made it something they’re reliant on. So they can’t jack up the price to pay for the cost of building out all the infrastructure. So they’re doubling down and trying to force it on everyone, hoping that somehow that will get people reliant on it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

That definitely needs to be a lawsuit against facebook/meta for the damage caused to the brand they're forcing ai slop onto.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The girl on the left looks like Carmen Ibanez

Dystopian bullshit reflecting dystopian bullshit

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I am just surprised people are still on Facebook. I deleted my account more than 10 years ago. Every other meta platform seems more popular like Instagram and Whatsapp.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Surely, this is now grounds for Google and Meta to be broken up as anti-trust?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Surely Google is doing the same,

Anyone have any examples?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fingers are bad but not even the worst part

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I think we're gonna need a bit more neck on the guy on the right 🤔

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