Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry
Better Offline28 Feb 2025

Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry

In the second of this week's two-part episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the dark truth of the generative AI industry - that consumer adoption of Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity is incredibly small, and it’s time to accept that there is nothing coming to justify the ruinous costs of Large Language Models.

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