This cannot possibly hold up in court. You cant just advertise a product and then be like “*but actually we might be lying about some or all of these things”??? What the fuck are you selling then

  • orioler25English
    12·
    10 hours ago

    I mean, this kind of missing why AI is so favoured by capitalists despite its obvious unsustainability. AI is already extremely overvaluated for a number of reasons, but its speculative ability to expand corporate ownership of consumer computing while eliminating/devaluing human labour created a potentially infinite vector of growth in a stagnating industry. Because all of these companies invested so heavily into this, largely in a scramble over intellectual property, they were able to realize numbers for this speculative value. Since immaterial financialization is the only kind of growth in a system that is so imcompatible with material reality, these companies have no other option but to adopt the technology, as to deny it would mean that they are not following a profitable vector of growth.

    It’s a very perfect situation to demonstrate exactly why capitalism is an unsustainable system. Infinite growth and profit imperatives literally makes it impossible to make effective decisions.

    “Held accountable” doesn’t mean anything wuthin this system, as the legal framework is designed to the interests of capital. They will not choose to stop because neoliberal politics and economic have constructed the state as a viable vector of revenue and risk absorption should any of these gambles fail (especially after the '08 recession).

    • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Companies have to maximize their revenue by their own bylaws and the law as a result. Yet in doing things like outsourcing manufacturing, or going over to ai, they destroy the economy that they feed off of. Removing workers getting paychecks that are buying their stuff. None can or indeed would not replace workers if they can make a short-term buck, even as doing that will send the economy into a doom spiral and make us all poorer.

      • orioler25English
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Yes, these are all good examples of how these imperatives manifest in law and why they are so unsustainable. Capitalism is not capable of long-term planning because of this, it depends on an immaterial world to exist and therefore does not consider the reality of the world it exists in.

        When they say it can do jobs, they aren’t actually claiming that it can, what they’re saying is that they can argue that it can, and that creates its own value. They’ve fired and rehired people, done layoffs, cut wages, cut salary and contract benefits; all of this makes labour cheaper, which validates that value and raises the speculative value.

    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      10 hours ago

      With accountability I mean I will send everything back if the description doesn’t match the product I bought. And as I live in the European Union, I will be getting my money back.