How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can’t manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn’t laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making? What the actual fuck are you talking about?

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I don’t believe you. No one with a brain believes you, and if your board believes what you just wrote on the survey then they should fire you.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    59·
    7 days ago

    Hacker News was silencing this article outright. That’s typically a sign that its factual enough to strike a nerve with the potential CxO libertarian [slur removed] crowd.

    If this is satire, I don’t see it. Because i’ve seen enough of the GenAI crowd openly undermine society/the environment/the culture and be brazen about it; violence is a perfectly normal response.

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      What happened to HN? I have now heard HN silencing cetain posts multiple times. Is this enshittification?

      • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
        34·
        6 days ago

        HN is run by a VC firm, Y Combinator. One of its largest supporters is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Do the math.

          • cheesepotatoes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            6 days ago

            Sam Altman was actually president of Y combinator from 2014 - 2019. An interesting connection when you realise HN has been actively removing news critical of the Gen AI bubble hype.

      • Elias Griffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        6 days ago

        I want to confirm this. Hacker News is nothing like it used to be and is approaching the cliff of “group think” narrator, the opposite of Entrepreneurship.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Fascinating, I am not surprised at all.

      Even beyond AI, some of the implicit messaging has got to strike a nerve with that kind of crowd.

      I don’t think this is satire either, more like a playful rant (as opposed to a formal critique).

    • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      6 days ago

      “If something is silenced, then that must mean it is right” is a pretty bad argument. There are genuinely good reasons to ban something. Being unnecessarily aggressive can be one.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      I’m libertarian, I’m against this. I’m also against blockchain scams.

      My ideas on digital currencies and something like artificial intelligence are simply an extension of the usual ancap\panarchy ideas. It’s actually a very good test for any libertarian you meet - they’ll usually agree that a “meta-society” consisting of voluntary exterritorial jurisdictions (which can be anything from crack-smoking ancap tribes to solarpunk communes), with some overarching security system to protect those jurisdictions from being ignored by somebody well-armed, is good, then you just have to ask why the systems they like for currencies and this are clearly manifestations of a different ideology.