I can just speak for myself, but my F500 has been setting money on fire chasing AI. Truly terrible ideas are being pursued just for the sake of movement. Were “AI” not part of the pitch, it would have been immediately tossed in the bin as a waste of time.

Ideas which are not terrible, instead have awful ROIs. Nobody has a use case beyond generating text, so lots of ideas about automating some text generation in certain niches. Not appreciating that those bits represent 0.1% of the business ventures. Yet they are technically feasible, so full steam ahead.

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bongodongobob 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Same here. We are apparently obsessed with chatbots that no one asked for. If I brought up the same idea minus the AI a couple years ago, management would have been very confused as to why I wanted to build things no one asked for.

The funniest thing is that management has no idea how AI works so they're pretty much just Copilot Agents with a couple docs and a prompt. It's the most laughable shit I've ever seen. Management is so proud while we're all just shaking our heads hoping this trend passes.

Don't get me wrong, AI definitely has its use cases, but tossing a doc about company benefits into a bot is about the most worthless thing you could do with this tech.

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toraway 3 days ago | parent [-]

> tossing a doc about company benefits into a bot is about the most worthless thing you could do with this tech.

Hahaha, my company has spent half a year pursuing the exact same thing to the letter after one of our VPs got the idea in his head at some AI conference. Rollout kept getting pushed back because of hallucinations in testing. I'm not 100% sure at this point if he forgot he made it a top internal priority and it was quietly shelved or if it's still limping along with no one in HR/upper management willing to give it the green light for release.

(using throwaway because my HN profile is linked to my real identity).

	▲	bongodongobob 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ha, same story here. We had a little demo for some people in IT and it couldn't get some of the most basic background of our company correct.

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JSR_FDED 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My F150 set itself on fire the other day

	▲	AppleBananaPie 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Gotta treat her better

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tokioyoyo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I know first hand companies that have replaced parts of CS with Elevenlabs with measurable wins in customer acquisition and satisfaction. Generally speaking, I agree that a lot of people are chasing something that doesn't exist, but there are real use cases in the current environment.