The same is kind of happening with AI now.
Time and time again a certain intellectual category of people believes that they have found perpetuum mobile in their lives.
And some others make money on that, of course.
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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Compared to the blockchain type train, I thought this whole AI thing was quite cool and actually useful, but it feels more and more similar to the blockchain hype, where companies tried to solve every problem with some form of blockchain (for example in-game items).
The same is kind of happening with AI now.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s just to boost investor confidence. It’ll take a few years before it dies down, the true value is understood and the next buzzword takes hold. Sad state of tech these days. Many grifters, many more losers.
nature_man@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also, a large amount of those NFT bros have lately been pushing to allow AI companies to steal artist’s works and otherwise generally licking big AI companies’ collective boot, so
hoot@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Define “a lot”? Or better yet, sources?
nature_man@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A lot, as in a large amount, its hard to put a finite number on something like a large part of a large community I am not a part of nor interested in.
I am not the only one who has noticed this, here is a skit video from 4 moths ago demonstrating this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBCzH1UyNY
As for sources there are TONS, it takes 5 seconds of googling to find a whole page, including:
medium.com/…/where-are-the-nft-bros-c6571ba4f1fd forbes.com/…/at-sxsw-it-was-goodbye-nfts-and-hell… businessinsider.com/the-crypto-bros-are-coming-fo… theverge.com/…/chatgpt-ai-get-rich-quick-schemes-… www.gq-magazine.co.uk/…/ai-generative-art-trend
Hell, just open one of the NFT marketplaces like opensea, I went to the art tab and the top trending is AI “art”
s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah I don’t know why it’s a surprise to anyone that NFT losers are now morphing into AI losers. It’s a bunch of talentless hacks trying to get rich quick through the lowest possible input of effort. Bonus points that they get to annoy a lot of people in the process.