Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks agowait so the people doing the work don’t get paid and the people who get paid steal from others?
that is just so uncharacteristic of capitalism, what a surprise
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s also cultish.
Everyone was trying to ape ChatGPT. Now they’re rushing to ape Deepseek R1, since that’s what is trending on social media.
It’s very late stage capitalism, yes, but that doesn’t come close to painting the whole picture. There’s a lot of groupthink, an urgency to “catch up and ship” and look good quick rather than focus experimentation, sane applications and such. When I think of shitty capitalism, I think of stagnant entities like shitty publishers, dysfunctional departments, consumers abuse, things like that.
This sector is trying to innovate and make something good, but it’s like the purse holders and researchers have horse blinders on. Like they are completely captured by social media hype and can’t see much past that.