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I think people are allowed to be annoyed, but if thats all you want to talk about i think its a waste of energy? It's just language, we can call it flubbon if you like and move the conversation along.
Unless we want to get bogged down talking about whether band aids "medical adhesive strips", which is a perfectly fine conversation to have if that's what both participants want to talk about.
It's not just language when that marketing bullshit moves venture capital around and that consequent accumulation of power makes specific sectors of the ruling class that much more influential over the rest, to all of our detriment.
NVIDIA currently dominates the stock market because of related marketing hype that started during the cryptocurrency hype wave.
Because people call it an AI instead of a bunch of related trained predictive algorithms? If the other things were happening (labour discipline, art theft, using a gallon of water to run a bad google search) but people were using whatever term you wanted, what would actually change?
Like, I'm not saying it's wrong to be annoyed by these companies ad copy, and there's absolutely people out there who think "AI" is more human than their employees, it's just a huge amount of time and energy wasted over a relatively minor part of the whole relationship. Even this 3 reply exchange here is probably too much.
I said it before and I'll say it one more time: YES, it does matter in this case, because the "AI" label and the consequent bullshit artistry tied to it grants the tech companies involved in it more venture capital from credulous investors persuaded by the bullshit labeling to put more money into it, which means the bad stuff you brought up happens even more as a consequence.
I'm not saying you can't be annoyed at my being annoyed, but even here on this leftist shitposting site some people buy into the "AI" label meaning a lot more than it actually does and that has a ripple effect of consequences even here as well.