Hype train goes forward. Where are NFT influencers now?
Rebranding into AI influencers.
The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
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Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be fooled by the glamorous facade of such "influencers". It's as tough a grind as any corporate job. There is 24x7 demand for new content. You have to compete with a million others in the space, and it is next to impossible to set yourself apart. Only the top 0.1% have any real viewership and are making money. For the rest, the "living frugally" part you mention is likely not by choice.
If it were easy, everybody would be doing it.
That's not completely true. Information asymmetry is a thing after all
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#43Why does everyone dislike them?
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not dumb to sell shovels during a gold rush. And the thing is, almost anybody can do it.
These guys aren't so much selling shovels as selling advice on which shovel to buy despite the fact they've never dug a hole before.
Exactly what I was about to say. They know the shovel saying and said to themselves "shit I can't make or sell a shovel, but you know what I can do? Talk!! A lot!"
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#45Why does everyone dislike them?
Typically because their content is low value and high noise.
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#46Stopped by whom? I'm not sure how "stop paying attention to the contents if you don't like them" can't work for us.
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#47Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#48Not to be dismissive but it seems like a skill issue to me. I have the thread emoji muted, that does 90% of the work. I had to click “don’t show me this guy” (not “don’t show me this topic”) on maybe half a dozen that slipped through, and then it seems like the algorithm got the message. Just curate better and the problem goes away.
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#49Sometimes I am jealous of these people. They arent doing the corporate grind, and they arent even really doing the startup grind. They are shilling stuff on the internet and avoiding spending their lives working. I know a few, they live great, though frugal lives. I go to my job at prestigious big Co and often wonder who the smart one is, me or them
The genius of all such people, I noticed at the start of my career in the 2000s, is that they take an idea that--for most folk--warrants maybe 3-5 mins of passing conversation at most (in the case of AI, maybe a few minutes more) and somehow twist, wring and hydraulically frack _years_ of blog posts, Twitter threads, speaking tours, books, podcasts, etc. out of it.
Their real brilliance is in identifying worthwhile candidates for prolonged shysterism and sophistic schmoozing, and, like an exceptionally gifted oil and gas industry geologist, to extract that stored potential hype energy to a degree no normal person would think possible.
This happened with Agile, with TDD, with pretty much any technocratic crapola that was laundered through the ostensible prestige of TED, and by god, did it ever happen with "blockchain", NFTs, and anything crypto-related.
Outside our particular sociocultural nexus, you most often see it with sundry species of MLM grifters, in the tradition pioneered by Quixtar-Amway and widely emulated, well, everywhere that lower middle-class consumer eyeballs go.
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typically because their content is low value and high noise.
In the best case it's low value: some of the AI hustles lately are actively misleading or harmful. (e.g. the "generate high quality food" example in this post)
Agreed. Negative value plop next to little to no value, all below the threshold of "worth spending time on."