• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    What’s crazier is people thinking it’s a good enough idea to get $185,000,000 in funding for someone who just graduated college…

    Like, it already exists, there’s a bunch of those already.

    She slapped “AI” on the front of it but because her name is Gates people won’t stop throwing money at it. If she doesn’t understand her name is why she’s getting funding, that just means she’s both ignorant and naive and this is an even worse investment and product than it seems on the surface.

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      8 hours ago

      I’m sure the Gates named helped, but AI anything has venture capitalists punching the Fry meme. It feels very similar to the dot com era bubble in a macro sense, except without a large number jobs being created.

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        8 hours ago

        If a random 23 year old can just take any type of plugin that’s been around 20+ years, slap AI in front of it…

        And raises $185,000,000…

        Why exactly do you think they’re not all doing it?

        Thats a rhetorical question by the way, the rest of them aren’t doing it because their last name isn’t Gates so it wouldn’t work