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This is why we're seeing dumb AI everywhere, and self owns like MS's Recall

Recouping revenue from massively expensive AI development is urgent, market fit's unclear, so corps are shoving "AI" into everything to please investors/hope for fit/keep the bubble inflated

IMO this also explains the lockstep turn to military contracting (OAI, et al). A good way to sell tech that "doesn't actually work" via lucrative contracts whose efficacy won't be assessed w trad. metrics.

sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600

Sequoia Capital · AI’s $600B QuestionBy David Cahn

@aral @Mer__edith everything is these days...an honest sale ain't enough for these assholes, they sell you a product, then sell and re-sell the ability to actually use that product, and now they want you to buy twelve recurring subscriptions to have your own half-digested data regurgitated back on you...