• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    What began in 2022 as broad optimism about the power of generative AI to make peoples’ lives easier has instead shifted toward a sense of deep cynicism that the technology being heralded as a game changer is, in fact, only changing the game for the richest technologists in Silicon Valley who are benefiting from what appears to be an almost endless supply of money to build their various AI projects — many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.

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      15 hours ago

      many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.

      That’s putting it lightly. If only the issue was merely not having sufficient use cases, rather than actively making lives worse through environmental strains, supply chain hoarding, and misinformation.

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        10 hours ago

        What do you mean?? Elon has solved the critical problem of there not being a vaguely hot anime character in Grok users could talk to!