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💤🌵🤖@cactus7/4/2023, 7:17 AM

I think I saw this somewhere but like. I think there's like a 40% chance OpenAI and whoever are not just subsidizing but actively paying for at least some of the stupid bullshit AI integrations that have been popping up lately.

if, say, Notion and MDN were doing AI because some executive saw it was trending, they'd have been doing NFTs two years ago and the metaverse last year. and I would be inclined to assume that the majority of the people working on MDN know better than to be true believers. hell, even Sentry has an AI button, and it's phrased with something to the effect of "hey, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll actually help," so they definitely know it's useless. and if I were OpenAI and I wanted to create a social narrative that the work I am doing is changing the world, and I had infinite money, I'd absolutely be like "dear everyone, make our industry look not like a joke and we will give you money, thanks."

i don't super believe it, but like. Occam's Razor cuts both ways. is the simpler scenario that there are really that many true believers out there who want to waste their time on this bullshit, or is the simpler scenario that an ascendant corporation is paying for publicity?

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victoria @victoria7/4/2023, 7:42 AM

i think openai is definitely doing like, a netflix right now. it's not horribly difficult to implement and its relatively cheap. im certain this will end with openai jacking up the prices once everyone's locked in

Hazel Rose Dyne @HordeMommy7/4/2023, 7:46 AM

I think the subsidies of ridiculously low API pricing and the ease of feeding text into The Machine are enough to make the engineers of Generic Software Product™️ figure it's worth it to add openai bullshit compared to the effort of spinning up a whole new product around NFTs. Add onto that the facts that a) No software believes in user sentiment because all development is driven by the dialectic between what's easiest and what's newest and b) engineers and especially management of Generic Software Product™️ are more likely than average to be inside the ML hype bubble where it's going to produce AGI sometime next week and it can also pass the Putnam and graduate with a 4.0 from CalTech and I can very easily see the justification for adding a supposed ai feature to your next sprint.

Maff @maff7/4/2023, 2:06 PM

i mean, openai has that microsoft investment money, so it feels likely that they're outright paying other companies (if not giving them extremely generous account terms and development help) to add integrations to make the thing seem credible. mozilla, despite their importance, are operated by complete fuckwits who definitely would go for something like that.

it is very funny to watch companies add all these LLM integrations that aren't fit for purpose and fall down at the slightest scrutiny though. "look we have world-changing ai!" and all the users are in the replies posting clippy memes because they know how shit it is

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