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Comment by formerly_proven

5 days ago

What is it with AI SaaS naming themselves "openxyz" when there is 0% open about them?

They learnt from ooenai that naming yourself open-xyz doesn't actually require opening anything.

It's the next co-opted buzzword after "democratize".

  • Yeah, anytime that I see "People's" or "Democratic" in the name of a nation, I grow suspicious. It is rarely a well-functioning democracy.

It's how marketing works. If something is a problem they have to loudly claim to have fixed it. Look around the economy and you'll see lots of it. "Healthy" (high sugar) muesli bars, clean-diesel, surveillance wrapped up as keeping us safe. The modus operandi of marketing is to change minds about self evident things otherwise what is the point?