Maybe figure out if there’s a less emotional/defensive path for looking at all this

If you start with

I think some people are so hung up on knee-jerk defensiveness of AI that they lose sight of everything but promoting it.

you should expect to be seen as one of those with that irrational hate for a technology.

Back in topic: can this be a bubble like the dot-com? Of course. Is it? Probably not.

95% of failures should be a warning for all those fools who expects something that this technology cannot do. Nothing more than that.

About 90% of tech startups fail. It happens all the time because it’s in the nature of innovation.

Here anything about AI is received negatively so a 5% success rate is the “demonstration” that it’s a bubble. I’m sorry if you hope so, but it’s not. 5% is not far away from the normal failure rate of new companies and here we are talking about early adopters who buy a lottery ticket trying to be the first that makes it work.

Feel free to believe the contrary. I don’t need to convince an anonymous guy on internet.

Like any technology before it, now we are beyond the hype in the area where lots of clueless people expects miracles and complain about the number of Rs in strawberry.

In one year or two it will be a regular tool like any other.

5% to me sounds excellent. Companies fail all the time with well established technologies and nobody should expect great results with something still so new. It’s a bet with high risks and high rewards: most people will simply fail.

I would not hold my breath considering that GH was already supposed to die in 2018 and we are still predicting its imminent end in 2025.

Wrong assumption 👋

Damn, you got me! Now I have to rethink my whole plan to undermine Spotify’s revenues one comment a time!

I never said it wasn’t a successful service. I’m only genuinely surprised that so many people pay for what I personally consider marginal improvements. Also thanks for being the usual internet jerk ready to snap at any comment he doesn’t like: now I have an idea of who may pay for that subscription.

What bubble?

Same with pi-hole.

You guys are paying for Spotify?

I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.

A better resource: https://www.goeuropean.org/

Also useful: https://isitamerican.eu/

Maybe now they have a chance to demonstrate that these filters don’t work.

Plus: shady managing of the network connections that could lead to mass surveillance, poor E2E encryption, and now a partnership with Musk.

The problem is that once it will be normal to request IDs for porn, the same will be extended to everything else with excuses like “let’s do it for the kids” or “if you don’t have anything to hide…”.

VPNs… yeah sure, until there will be a crackdown on those too.