It may be painful to hear, but AI tech currently has no path to create lasting value...
Anyone who's worked in VC-backed startups consistently will recognize the cycle a majority of Big Tech and AI startups have bought into.
Their go-to (market) is all the same: if what we're doing isn't working, we need a new narrative.
They're choosing messaging/PR over product value, and when you do that consistently, you stop knowing what you're building and who you're building it for. You start thinking your "market" is the mind-share of other people people running the same game as you, instead of customers.
You can see this because they keep doing the same two things over and over…
Read MoreThe news that Meta/Facebook has ended a nearly 10-year-old fact checking program has many brands & leaders asking how they should respond, but these moves are not happening in a vacuum…
Ensuring accurate information, and specifically fact checking, is only one element in a larger moderation strategy...there were probably people inside Meta/Facebook who supported this but they've been gone for a long time.
For example, Check Your Fact, an official Meta/Facebook fact checker, is owned by The Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson/Neil Patel, which is funded by and has close ties to billionaires like former VP Cheney and the Koch Brothers who profit from dis/misinformation about, among other things, policy in the Middle East, the military, and denying/delaying climate change tech and science.
If you look at how Big Tech, incl. but not limited to Meta/Facebook, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, are accelerating AI-generated content and fake profiles, they see themselves as world builders (absent fiduciary responsibility, but that's another story altogether) and they seem less and less focused on creating value for & centering customers and users.
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