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  • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • slurpinderpin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          Machine translation has been used by large organizations for years. Anyone saying AI is a scam doesn’t realize it’s been around, and useful, for quite a while

          • nandeEbisu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            1 month ago

            The issue is AI is just too broad of a term. It’s also not a magic bullet and comes with its own problems so it’s not even the best tool for the job many times.

            • slurpinderpin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              It’s not too broad imo, there’s just a lot of different types. So saying “AI is a scam” is incorrect, because there are types of AI that are enterprise level, and are being used currently by all the largest companies in the world to save time and money - like Machine Translation

              So when I hear someone say it’s a scam, it just tells me they aren’t very familiar with AI, and only have experience with it in very limited forms and settings

        • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 month 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.