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AI industry criticized for religious marketing and financial instability

The AI industry is characterized by religious marketing and science fiction narratives that distract from the actual technology, which is not very advanced. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly losing billions of dollars annually on their large models. The author suggests that the entire industry is a house of cards, vulnerable to collapse from a single failed bond round. AI

IMPACT Suggests the AI industry's current business models are unsustainable and reliant on hype over substance.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece criticizing the AI industry's marketing and financial stability.

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AI industry criticized for religious marketing and financial instability

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    @ alineblankertz The Pope has no stance on some image generation model file I've got sitting around on disk, he's clueless as to how that actually works. What w

    @ alineblankertz The Pope has no stance on some image generation model file I've got sitting around on disk, he's clueless as to how that actually works. What we have is one religious nutjob commenting on another new age religion. None of it as anything to do with the actual soft…