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replyIt's always been like this. I used to build websites in the 90s and it was exactly like that. It was also horrible. People who had no tech background whatsoever making decisions on which tech to use (PHP vs ASP vs ColdFusion, remember those?); overpaying agencies to make HTML "templates" that had to have round corners everywhere. Etc.
Not everything's great today, but it's a little less bad I think.
I don’t know. I think back to my first dialup connection and getting internet for the first time. In no way do I remember fear being a driver. I remember people being curious. Nobody ran around saying you need to get on the internet or you will be left in the dust. Would be curious if anyone had examples of this if I am wrong. Youtube links to old news broadcasts or magazine print ad archive or something.
replyWell, the marketing from the AI companies is working.
replyThats the clever nature of the companies. They are playing on peoples fear to drive adoption. Its a bit sickening to me
reply"Adopt or be left behind" and the quality of the thing you're adopting relies heavily on how much training it receives by the users who are scared of being left behind.
replyIt’s FOMO and it works every couple of years because the execs who buy in are different to the last lot of execs who got promoted/canned.
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