Anyone else somewhat weirded by current state of affairs that this sort of information is valuable enough to even bother selling... And that it actually happens... It feels like some societies are in really weird place.

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budman1 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How does this have value? Is any and every sentence in an e-mail considered 'fact' and thus to be fed into the AI?

90% of e-mails and Teams communications are inane. Polite banter, "thanks for taking care of that, I appreciate it" "please route the forms to Janet this week because Bill is on vacation" "unit will be un available until the parts come in" . I can't see the intrinsic fact value of this kind of communication without screening it. And after screening, the gold nuggets would be minimal.

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greggoB an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I am very much weirder out by it, yeah. Seems some societies are just excessively desperate for some kind, any kind, of fuel for economic growth, to the point this is where attention is now. The term "post capitalism" being thrown around feels less ridiculous than it did in years gone past.

	▲	hogs_get_fat 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Growth is still possible, but modern liberal democracy requires that all progress must be contingent on the production of enormous amounts of text that nobody would ever read. 3 years ago, the Wall Street journal covered a company trying to use AI to generate documents required for the approval of new nuclear reactor reactor designs, which sounds dangerous, until you get to the point where they'd cite 2 million pages as necessary for a typical application. [1] I don't need to explain why no individual or institution could read that, much less examine it in detail. I remember a rather funny question I found in a comment to that story - "How many pages of those 2 million could contain pornographic images before anyone notices?" Constructing train lines, highways, power plants, houses, apartments or factories, developing pharmaceuticals, hiring employees, firing employees - basically any economic activity that isn't completely financial now requires the production of long amounts of text. Many of them would are also reviewable judicially, which involves the production of endless motions and counter-motions and even more pointless text. We've reached the point where a text generator of sufficient quality can unlock more economic growth than any scientific breakthrough. [1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-targets-nuclear-to-pow...
	▲	usrusr an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Any kind of fuel for giving active investors that FOMO tingle which then forces the steamroll of index funds to blindly follow. I guess the appropriation "any sufficiently advanced stock market is indistinguishable from entertainment" doesn't quite stop at equating the trade floor with a casino. At some point, entertainment also becomes the modus operandi of corporations.