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AI is as far away from useful and necessary as bitcoin and NFTs were. I'm sure society can survive without it

Strange to say it’s not useful, I personally get a lot of use out of it. It’s mostly replaced search engines for me, which is no small thing.

Agree that society can survive without it though, but seems a weird thing to just claim as useless.


The US govt is already useless in constrast with the ruling corporations. Congress can't get anything done. What makes you think they could or would do anything to the slave owners who pay them?

> So they allow even more bots to increase traffic which drives up ad revenue

When are people who buy ads going to realize that the majority of their online ad spend is going towards bots rather than human eye balls who will actually buy their product? I'm very surprised there hasn't been a massive lawsuite against Google, Facebook, Reddit, etc. for misleading and essentially scamming ad buyers


Is this really true though? Don't they have ways of tracking the returns on advertising investment? I would have thought that after a certain amount of time these ad buys would show themselves as worthless if they actually were.


No, it's not really true. Media companies have a whole host of KPI's and tracking methods to evaluate the success/failure of their campaigns/single ads: here's a small summary of some of the KPI's and methods https://www.themediaant.com/blog/methods-of-measuring-advert...


Delusional


Arguably Google could go the way of AOL and no one would notice


This is probably the funniest comment I've seen this week. Yes, I'm sure all 3 billion users of Google products wouldn't notice.


The thing with inflation is that a product's individual components may cost the same or less over time, but the cost of everything else...like housing...doubles every couple of years. So you need to increase prices to support higher salaries, increasing minimum wage, etc. It's rides the line of becoming run away inflation since everyone needs to raise prices to support COL, then everything gets more expensive, then they need to raise prices again to support everything else getting more expensive. It's a loop that will never be closed


It's just a temporary PR move


Stock market is all based on vibes at this point. Giant gambling system


Has been for much of the late-and post-ZIRP period.

Our so-called "gdp" is mostly rent and legal ponzi schemes


Something changed in the US in the last 15 or so years that caused our whole country to become a death cult. All I see in the economics is a bunch of looting and pillaging before the music stops


I'm using it


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