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Comment by philipwhiuk

6 hours ago

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.

    • i dont like onedrive very much. i get it its useful as a pigeonhole, what i really dont like is how it is used. its the thing that moves files to onedrive and destroys local copies, that i hate, and onedrive is something that enables that. so i dont hate onedrive, i just dont like it.

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.