There's two ways of seeing this:
- LLMs are a scam. The marketing did well, as scammers usually do. They lost SAP, but there's plenty of others to scam.
- LLMs are not a scam. The marketing did terribly. They lost SAP for being too pushy.
Companies can distribute freebies to make people talk good about them, even when their product sucks. It has been done for decades.
A particularly pathetic and scammy LLM company could deploy thousands of bots to forums like Hacker News or reddit just posting stuff like "It works for me", or generating simplistic blog posts that praise their latest scam. Just to pretend word of mouth exists.
These bots don't even need to be intelligent. If someone reveals them as scam, the pathetic LLM company can just spin more dumb bots to burrow the previous embarassment.
It is what I would describe as _fraud_ though.
Maybe SAP is not interested in this kind of potential.
znpy•5h ago
“Applied AI” means keep being technologically dependent on other countries (in this context that would be US and China).
This is the same business model of shutting down nuclear power plants and relying on cheap natural gas from Russia. It’s all nice until the music stops and you need to hurry and sign agreements with other dictators to get natural gas at higher prices.
Really, really dumb take.