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And how much of this is due to the sloppers/grifters/conmen who hopped on to the AI train (same thing which happened to crypto?)

I feel like that is what the hate needs to be directed towards. Same thing with crypto. There is fundamentally nothing wrong with the technology itself. It’s that we are letting these scammers become the face of it

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> There is fundamentally nothing wrong with the technology itself

It is when the foundation of the training set for the technology is predicated on stolen or exploited labor.

I personally know multiple completely clueless people who are ”founders building AI startup” on linkedin despite having zero business skills, zero technical skills, generally low IQ people, just trying to ride the hype wave to scam themselves into fortune. Of course their tactics involve posting total slop on linkedin, scamming freelancers, outsourcing everything to Pakistan, etc

This kind of behaviour would need to be name-and-shamed and preferably some sort of industry blacklist for bad behaviour.

Grifters and scammers gravitate towards certain technologies (and not others) and become the face of them because of something about those technologies. They are not picking random inventions and then adopting them to their scams.