Honestly I think a lot of Bluesky related crashouts have more to do with social media’s decline in general. Elon made it harder for anyone who isn’t a Nazi to get engagement. Short-form video is now the primary medium and AI slop is everywhere. But it’s easier to get mad at Bluesky
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Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does.
My prediction is that AI is actually so organically unpopular that we’re going to see a backlash against any new product that uses “AI” even if it doesn’t and that was a marketing ploy. All these newly “AI” companies are going to come crawling back, AI-less
I know Google Search has sucked for a while now but it genuinely saddens me to see it become even more of an AI shell of its former self. It's a tool that I think genuinely transformed everyday life, in many ways for the better, but was doomed by runaway capitalism