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by q-big 1514 days ago
> "AI" has been used to market so much nonsense it's probably becoming a problem communicating actual interesting uses of AI.

On the other hand: if the people who do serious work in this area don't call out this nonsense, they must accept that their (serious) work becomes devalued.

> It's very much the sort of problems crypto is having. So many grifters actual interesting uses of the technology are very hard to identify and take seriously.

Here, the same holds.

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It's a lost cause, you have to pick a new word.

"Diet" was used for women's food product to the point that men didn't want to buy anything with "diet" on it, so CocaCola created coke zero just for men instead of trying to make them drink "diet" coke. They knew it was a lost battle.