Comment by lawtalkinghuman
10 hours ago
> I think we must make it clear that this is not related to AI at all
There are clear AI-specific reasons why it's being crammed down everybody's necks.
Namely: someone in management has bet the entire strategy on it. The strategy is not working and they need to juice the numbers desperately.
It's not really AI itself though, it's just whatever the current hype cycle is - it was crypto and cloud before this.
Cloud is probably the better comparison, since crypto never had the sort of mainstream management buy-in that the other two got. Microsoft's handling of OneDrive in particular foreshadows how AI is being pushed out.
The difference is OneDrive is moderately useful.
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I have never received a Crypto spam email from any place where I opted out from it. Same for cloud. It feels different. With crypto it was everyone wanting to ride the hype train. With AI they spent a bunch of money up front and are desperate to see ROI.