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.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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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.
I was sitting in a meeting yesterday that basically was exactly this.
So yes. very much.
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.
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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It's almost as if CEOs are just regular schmucks that fall prey to BS advertising.
just ~~regular~~ spoiled and power-mad shmucks
FTFY. To call them "regular" belies the fact that suffusion of money and the power over the wellbeing of others has, universally, rotted their humanity from the inside out, making it impossible for them to even imagine
let alone successfully predict
what a "regular" shmuck would consider a reasonable use-case for AI.
Agreed. Overpaid, sociopathic and overly-powerful schmucks. But still schmucks.
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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.
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.
how is that allowed but I'm not allowed to drive the slow ass accessibility electric shopping carts because they don't have a seatbelt and that's apparently a legal issue
I hate the law so much
I look forward to the lawsuit (but obviously not the injury/death)
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.
At home? Absolutely not, they need to come into the office so those real estate investments pay off.
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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?
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.
It could be prices. It could also be information.
If you can get people suck on your generative tech, in any capacity, you get them stuck on a service that can tweak and filter the truth in real time, and whose statements aren't accountable to anyone. This is maybe a bit more valuable than money.
The Elon / grok white genocide gaffe from a few days ago is really funny because he is and always has been an inept moron, but there's the evidence. It is definitely scary.
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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.
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.
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.
How are they supposed to fire us all if no ai?
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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"?
What the fuck lmfao.
That definitely needs to be a lawsuit against facebook/meta for the damage caused to the brand they're forcing ai slop onto.
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.
Lol wtf Zuck?! I can't fucking believe how imbecilic these fucking corporate ghouls are.
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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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.
If you use an ad blocker, there are filters for ai slop such as https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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?
They've been faking their userbase numbers for ages now. They don't care about actual user engagement.
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Didn’t zuck say recently that he’s gonna make ai friends for people bc most people want like 15 friends and only have like 2? So I’m assuming he’s just training the ais to make them more human sounding so that he can sell people friendship subscriptions
Yeah they put a AI bot in my FB group whose first post was literally harmful information.
They want to make us used to see AI images and start to think they are cool at exposure.
I'm pretty sure the dude in the blue tank top is the guy who killed Inigo Montoya's father.
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