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I am curious who buys generative AI services? The consumers seem to be people making memes or questionable porn with free services. It can't prepare food, unblock drains or tile a bathroom. You can't use it for anything like medicine, law or engineering where you would be professionally liable if it fucks up. How is it sustainable?
My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don't use it for anything.
Spammers
It's good for making up stories and making suggestions. I worked with chatGPT on how to power up a mothballed Galaxy Class starship. We created the procedure to bring the ship from inert and vacuumed to ready for warp flight.
A lot of companies buy it so their employees have acres to it. Like Microsoft 365 copilot for example
I see a fair amount of online adverts that use them. Usually the kind you might get orbiting an article of some kind, just using AI images as their hook.
Me. Moderate ai enthusiast and software engineer.