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Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper (youtu.be)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Coffeezilla asks: "Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Pretty much everything AI is a scam, I mean it has its uses but isn't exactly as claimed yet. Pretty much every non phone AI gadget I've seen so far definetly is a scam.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you think that "pretty much everything AI is a scam", then you're either setting your expectations way too high, or you're only looking at startups trying to get the attention of investors.

There are plenty of AI models out there today that are open source and can be used for a number of purposes: Generating images (stable diffusion), transcribing audio (whisper), audio generation, object detection, upscaling, downscaling, etc.

Part of the problem might be with how you define AI... It's way more broad of a term than what I think you're trying to convey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s becoming fair to label a lot of commercial AI “scams” at this point, considering the huge gulf between the hype and the end results.

Open source projects are different due to their lack of commercialisation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, but don't let that feed into the sentiment that AI = scams. It's way too broad of a term that covers a ton of different applications (that already work) to be used in that way.

And there are plenty of popular commercial AI products out there that work as well, so trying to say that "pretty much everything that's commercial AI is a scam" is also inaccurate.

We have:
Suno's music generation
NVidia's upscaling
Midjourney's Image Generation
OpenAI's ChatGPT
Etc.

So instead of trying to tear down everything and anything "AI", we should probably just point out that startups using a lot of buzzwords (like "AI") should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism, until they can prove their product in a live environment.

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