[logicalmonster]

We're in a new trend cycle.

Whenever some tech becomes trendy and people think they can make money off of it, it becomes a stupid buzzword that gets used just about everywhere unnecessarily.

Think back to the "cloud". When "cloud" became a reality, every single dopey company was using it as a buzzword term everywhere and it started feeling cringe.

Crypto hasn't yet quite reached those absolute heights, but think back a couple years ago where you started seeing "blockchain" in many dumb startups' marketing just because.

We're at the stage with AI right now where idiots are trying to shoehorn it everywhere in dopey ways just because, and it feels annoying.

I bet in a few years, after a lot of the bad companies who use AI in dumb ways die off and some new technology is the trendy new thing, I bet AI is going to start to feel a lot more technical than a stupid trend.

[paulcole]

> Think back to the "cloud".

Yeah thank goodness those days of the “cloud” are over.

[sircastor]

I remember early on in the “cloud” hype my brother had bought some hosting, and I kept going over it thinking “this just sounds like a server…” I was sure I’d gotten something wrong about it, but in retrospect it really was just a fancy server package.

[AznHisoka]

Totally agree. It’s like people are treating AI as a hammer and everything is a nail. Not every single problem needs to use AI but all anyone can think of is AI when there’s a problem