I’ve often thought, if I had a little less integrity, I could make huge money off the world’s idiots.
Faraday cage MAGA hats, weeping
<insert religious icon here>
statues, that kind of thing.
I think my favourite grift of all time was the little plugin devices that “optimised” your home electrical system. Literally just a blinking LED circuit.
The way I see it, they think GenAI is the new portal to information, the way search has been for the last 25-30 years. They want to control that portal, because it’s worth trillions over time.
This is why they’re cramming it into everything and worrying about use cases later. It’s a land grab.
This shit pre-dates “AI”. AI just lets them do it faster and cheaper.