Queen Gwenevere: This is like when some executives wanted to shove “blockchain” into everything, even if it made no sense whatsoever, and devs had to invent ways to tack it onto projects. But the AI hype is happening at a MUCH larger scale. It’s like every company bought into it and is now trying to make it work.

AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.

NEW: an AI chatbot touted by City Hall as a helper for small businesses is giving illegal and incorrect information to those who use it

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Lawwww.thecity.nyc The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.

I think the reviving of union power has them scared shitless and AI is a near religious belief that computers will save them from unions

I was speaking to a Microsoft dev yesterday, and, in his words, "we are now being required to include AI in every product, whether it makes sense to or not." A certain technology is being prescribed, often over the protests of the people who best understand how it works. It's buck wild.

This is like when some executives wanted to shove “blockchain” into everything, even if it made no sense whatsoever, and devs had to invent ways to tack it onto projects. But the AI hype is happening at a MUCH larger scale. It’s like every company bought into it and is now trying to make it work.

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