this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Majority of CEOs tried to use Ai on the wrong level of their company: at the bottom.
Look on the upside folks, at least RAM, GPU, and storage are wildly expensive. That's great for the economy and reduces the instances of people being mind-controlled by violent video games!
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seems like they ran out of using AI as an excuse to lay people off and "record profits"
And watch them get crazy bonuses anyways and suffer no consequences.
they will just run to trump to beg for bailouts.
I support abolishing the death penalty except for two cases.
1: war criminals (think what Israel is doing and their disgusting behavior) and anyone committing crimes under the auspices of the state expecting that protection to allow them to escape. 2: high ranking political and economic figures who fuck things up on purpose for profit.
Even mass shooters and serial killers do far less damage to society than a single one of those fucks.
Someone still needs to be the executioner. Nobody should have to carry that burden.
Put them to work. And I mean basic hand labour.
Plowing fields, harvesting crops, buildings houses, paving roads, etc.
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crash. and. burn.
Majority of CEOs discover they are completely incompetent frauds to the point of literally deserving the death sentence
There, fixed the headline.
Majority of CEOs discover something plebs like you and I knew all along the whole time.
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Maybe they are actively trying to make the crash happen while Trump is still in office to bail them out.
Holy shit, really?
How could they have possibly thought AI would make them money? Lmfao. It sucks power and water just to give wrong answers or generate "art" with terrible attention to detail...
It's because they have no idea what "AI" actually is. They think you tell it to make profits, and it just does so. Anyone who has used any kind of "AI" for an hour knows that it's mostly just shit at everything except the absolutely most basic shit.
They have no respect for the work of their employees, so they thought that they could be easily replaced by a computer program. They were so excited by the prospect of handing over ALL of our jobs to AI, that they far overextended themselves.
Now they are going to crash and burn because they bet AGAINST every worker in America, and LOST.
I hope it hurts them really, really badly. We should respond to their financial pain by laughing at them, and taking away their fortunes and their companies, since they have demonstrated so clearly that they can't be trusted to handle the American economy responsibly.
A government bailout was ALWAYS the plan.
Some applications of AI are pretty neat. For example the DeepL translation tool. I convinced my employer to spend money on that. And they make 55 million in profits.
But forcing AI down our throats, like Google does with those horrible auto-dubbed videos? There's no way that will ever be profitable
DeepL isn't what is being touted as "AI" this week, though. DeepL is based on older translation technology (by which I mean "far more reliable").
This is a shell game. Every time there's a wave of "AI" it's some new tech that shills sell as the answer to "real" computer intelligence. (It can never possibly be this, of course, because we can't even define intelligence properly, not to mention making an artificial version of it.) There's certain levels of hype. There's a bubble (usually far smaller than this one, of course). Then the bubble pops and we enter the next AI Winter.
The small use cases for which the new technology is actually useful, however, loses the AI monicker and is just called "software". Like what used to be AI for doing dynamic adjustment on pictures for night shots, HDR, etc. is no longer shilled as AI. It's just ... software that my phone has built in.
So currently "AI" means "LLM" outside of some very specific academic environments. DeepL is just software that (mostly kinda/sorta) works.
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I'm starting to think that most "business" leaders have the skills of a Trump. It's all puffery.
Have you ever talked to a CEO? Like, sit down and talk face to face? Their are dumb as rocks. They are dumb as rocks and make all the money, and just move around from company to company, running them into the ground.
Yes. Yes I have. And I agree with you. The "starting to think" is an old Norm McDonald trope.
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I work in IT, and the accuracy of "The IT Crowd" when it comes to management is scary. How they get anything done is beyond me.
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During americas “great” years a lot of the research and development was guided by long term USA policy. We are no longer guided by any sense of what’s to come. It’s a greedy grab all free-for-all. No rules no restrictions, just have fun and make lots of money.
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Instead of looking for other avenues for growth, though, PwC found that executives are worried about falling behind by not leaning into AI enough.
These are the people in charge of the economy.
It's the "sunk cost fallacy". They've already invested so much, that turning back now means a total loss...when success "might be" just around the corner, if they only invest a little more. In for a penny, in for a pound.
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Rich people: Debunking the idea that the rich are the smartest since about 10,000 BCE.
Tech CEOs are a cancer on society and the planet. Ruining everything just to make fake numbers go higher.
~~Tech~~ CEOs are a cancer on society and the planet. Ruining everything just to make fake numbers go higher.
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Sounds good. Then, they'll finally move away from AI and we will all stop having AI being shoved down our throats. I'm sick and tired of all these AI chatbots in places where we don't even need them.
"Instead of looking for other avenues for growth, though, PwC found that executives are worried about falling behind by not leaning into AI enough."
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The next big thing is NI: natural intelligence! Replace you hallucinating AI with a person that can solve problems without hallucinating (usually)!
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The level of schadenfreude im feeling is almost lethal.
The only thing I have used AI for is making furry porn. And even then I am really bored with it.
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Who'd have thought that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters was not the best way to accomplish Hamlet?
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My company is forcing that everybody use AI by having weekly reviews. They expect throughput of 2-4x hahahahaha
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Those who advocate for AI the most are the ones who understand it the least.
CEOs aren't in the positions they hold because they're qualified to lead corporations. They're there solely to figure out the best way to exploit workers legally, and illegally without getting caught. Replacing the workforce with LLMs is all they care about. Makes that job a million times easier, even if it isn't working.
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I'm shocked dot jiff.
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