• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      It’s not a Ponzi scheme. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s a scam and even if it was a scam that wouldn’t be the type of scam that it was.

      Absolute worst you could call it is false advertising, because AI does actually work just not very well.

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        22 hours ago

        A company that makes negative income every quarter forever, and whose latest edition costs a magnitude more power and is worse than the previous, is worth between $150 Bn and $300 Bn. Many other competing companies equally overvalued.

        These are businesses who are only valuable because people keep investing in them. A Ponzi Scheme.

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          20 hours ago

          AI has been around for many years, and a lot has happened in that time. It’s had periods of high and low interest, and during its lows, it’s been dubbed AI winter.

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            20 hours ago

            And the current AI spring is just old people buying into bullshit marketing and putting all their money in a Ponze Scheme.

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              19 hours ago

              Throughout history, many things have been spent on useless things, but saying that AI is a Ponze scheme is, I feel, the same as saying that the Apollo program is a Ponze scheme or that government-funded research is another Ponze scheme.

              PS: There were people who were against the Apollo program because they considered it an unnecessary expense, although today the Apollo program is more remembered.