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[-] MBech@feddit.dk 150 points 6 months ago

God I hope it just fucking collapses and pulls every other tech company down with them. I'm so fucking sick and tired of coworkers thinking ChatGPT is the most perfect thing that has ever been made. Every single fucking time I'm searching for something I'm asked "Why don't you just ask ChatGPT". They will not shut the fuck up, even when I show them ChatGPT is completely full of shit. Want it to write a simple 40 line script for Excel? Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn't fucking work, because it's trying to use functions that don't excist. "You're totally right, and so clever for pointing that out! Here's an updated script that takes that into account", still doesn't fucking work.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago

Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn’t fucking work, because it’s trying to use functions that don’t excist

I feel this, after searching for packages in apt that not only don't exist for debian, but in general

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

"But but but didn't prompt it right bro"
🫩

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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 6 months ago

And the cool part is that the USA stock market gains for the last couple years are based on OpenAI (and others) promising to buy stuff sometime in the future to build their data centres, which in turn spins into reinvestment in the company and a giant circlejerk.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 75 points 6 months ago

AKA a Ponzi scheme. If you think watching the Twin Towers collapse in NYC was frightening, wait until this house of cards falls.

[-] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 6 months ago
[-] nuko147@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Mid 2026 would be much better!

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 months ago

Or even early 2026. It’s still not too late.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 49 points 6 months ago

He sees this as a temporary problem for AI providers, though, as agentic AI becomes more entrenched in daily people's lives, it'll become harder to switch, as the bots should eventually have all your shopping preferences, aspirations, and emotional profile mapped out —perhaps even better than yourself.

God what a dystopian sentence that is.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 18 points 6 months ago

That's assuming millions of people switch to agentic browsers and use them agentically. A big assumption.

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

There's easily millions of people in the US alone that do not know any better and will do exactly that.

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 27 points 6 months ago

My conspiracy theory: The plan is to fail and sell the data centers to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

building my next pc late 2027 then

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 27 points 6 months ago

Bold of you to assume these companies won't just keep price gouging us, they've done it before.

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I just pulled the trigger yesterday. I don’t see prices coming down in a reasonable time, and the bundle at my local Microcenter was the same price as when I first looked a little under a year ago.

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[-] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 months ago

Wish it were sooner

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 months ago

grim picture

the picture:

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 18 points 6 months ago

Why can’t they just ask ChatGPT how to make more money?

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago
[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

WTF! How did I miss that and how the hell did that not trigger a giant red flag for any investor with more than 2 neurons???

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[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Because the answer is unlikely to be factually correct and thus unlikely to be useful.

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago

And they are trying to sell that? Dang.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 14 points 6 months ago

Too long, these assholes are fucking up everything from the economy to medicine at great individual and societal cost.

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Let's hope it happens sooner. Same with all the other AI shit.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 10 points 6 months ago

I'm smart enough to know that when the bubble bursts it's going to mess with the world economy, apparently way worse than the 2008 recession, but I'm too stupid to understand why. I just hear people say things and it would be nice to see these assholes get wrecked for once and not just rake in some cash and dip in time while the rest of the world is left to pay the clean up bill for a party they were never invited to.

I mean, I watched the big short and the only thing I understood from that movie was that the bad guys won and everybody else lost. So I am sorta preparing for the worst here xD

[-] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The first 10 minutes of Fun with Dick and Jane might make more sense than any explanation I could offer.

[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 10 points 6 months ago

May it happen even sooner.

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago

Burn baby burn

[-] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

Id say i cant wait, but theyll probably get bailed out and everything will become more expensive as the economy crashes. So thats cool

[-] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

I think all AI companies are just trying to exist at as low prices as possible for as long as possible so that enough companies have time to implement AI into their company infrastructure.

Once the dependence on AI for work flows is locked in they raise the prices.

It will be a interesting time of a big AI bubble burst..... And sadly also bad for many individuals losing their jobs in the companies that can't revert in time.

Dumb CEOs will then again just get more money in the form of hidden compensation packages while the average Joe will have to do.. Something.

Well, if AI drops down out of dumb hype into a normal spectrum it's probably worth it.

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

God I hope it all collapses before the end of trumps term.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

God I hope it all collapses <immediately, and causes> ... the end of trumps term.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

AI isn't going to dissappear just like crypto, but god damn does this bubble need to implode.

Hardware market is so screwed that not even the ripoff listings on Ali express can keep up.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 points 6 months ago

Sam Altman needs to be thrown in prison for fraud like Sam Bankman-Fried.

[-] Zanathos@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

They will just resell all the RAM they just purchased at 5x the cost.

[-] cm0002@toast.ooo 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

OpenAI: Taps forehead

Modern problems require modern solutions

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[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Are anthropic, perplexity or Gemini as a product making any money?

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

Noooooooo I don't believe so. It's the standard bullshit of burning hard and forgetting to make any actual profit.

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[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Not soon enough.

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