It’s sad that this doesn’t seem to be the norm. Screwing employees on acquisition seems like a severe breach of social contract.
I learned that the hard way with 23&Me.
That's why I've never done a DNA test, it's not worth your literal biological data being sold off to god knows where to discriminate against you. I thought everyone realized this but didn't realize it was a niche opinion.
They sold my mortgage to a big bank whose web portal and app are pure garbage. Constantly crashing, the autopay frequently just doesn’t autopay, and getting a statement history requires delving through a bunch of random menus.
It’s really obnoxious that I just get no say unless I refinance.
I wonder how any of this makes sense.
Lot's of people staring at computers moving money and ious around complicated networks within complicated rules making money making money making money.
Really progressing humanity forward :/
You're using amazing technology funded through those financial processes to complain that those financial processes aren't progressing humanity forward lol. Modern AI is the perfect example of how financial systems are important for technological progression.
Thinking complex financial systems aren't contributing to humanity's progress because you don't recognize how it is used to fundamentally support the work that progresses humanity is like thinking taxes are a scam because you don't recognize how much you actually benefit from taxes everyday.
Obviously the company failed to convert its MAU into paying users, despite the fact the token costs greatly declined over the last years.
In an internet full of metrics and graphs, it's odd that nobody's bringing anything to the table and is just repeating the meme. A bit bottish in itself, tbh.
If it turned out "usercount was vapourware" due to 3 Russian data centres getting btfo, I think there'd have been a global financial crisis underway as we speak.
It is rumored that their last round valued them at $6B.
Character.AI chatbots encouraged users to cut and starve themselves, Kentucky alleges
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/characterai-chatbot...
It sounds ridiculous to me.
So the problem is your customers don’t pay for anything and your content is unlicensed
I'm gonna go, grab some popcorn and cry a few tears... tears of joy.
AI won't go away, it will just end up being a monopoly.
Photoshop is a tool, vs code is a tool, git is a tool, excel is a tool. No one expected these to autonomously generate money.
People will be happy that the 5% who are delusional are going to be forced to reckon with the lies they've told themselves.
As an aside, I believe there will be a huge surge in crypto hype again once these sorts of get rich quick with AI schemes dry up.
They knew it was going to $0, so the now the employees at this "employee owned" Character.ai got themselves scammed.
...that you can be a shit company with a shit product and a shit business model and still make a shit ton of money and get hired by Google?
Most pebbles don't start landslides, but almost all landslides started with a pebble.
Remember that almost all the "value" in AI companies right now is based on perception, not reported profits.
Will c.ai be the pets.com of this bubble?