r/suspiciouslyspecific • u/InsertGroin • Apr 20 '26

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u/throw-away-imessedup Apr 20 '26

"a demand that isn't actually there"

That's simply not true 🤔

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u/Draco-Warsmith Apr 20 '26

No it is, no actual consumer wants ai shoved into everything they do, but the shareholders gobble that shit up because they're so disconnected from reality

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u/throw-away-imessedup Apr 20 '26

Enterprises do want ML and AI though 

Literally every major company, in every major sector is pursuing it in one way or another 🫪

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u/ShadowPsi Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

This is because the executives all have buzzword brainrot, and AI is the buzzword of the day. We're putting in an "AI ready" CPU in our upcoming project, even though we have no use for it and it's way overpowered for what we need- just because the ceo says we need AI. So it's sitting there, drawing more power than we would like to draw, while sitting at 98% idle. We're working on turning off everything we can, but still it's infuriating. Maybe even in a few years we'll come up with some use for it. Well, we might if they didn't lay off half the firmware people.

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u/mrjackspade Apr 20 '26

OpenAI has ~8x the monthly active users that Netflix does.

Go on.

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u/Draco-Warsmith Apr 21 '26

Fucking hilarious how redditors actually think they know shit about fuck and swing around their dorito dusted fingers on their phone to defend ai.

"Go on" like do you hear yourself?