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Comment by d_silin | Hacker News Reader

The logical business opportunity in the current LLM-boom is to create a bunch of AI-less services and products, and then charge money to access them.

Think of premium branding analogy: masses get cheap AI slop, wealthy get high quality human-curated and human-created produce. Like organic vs regular food.

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This only works if your business is large enough that you and all your competitors aren't expected to have humans doing everything already, but small enough that going AI won't boost your valuation by much. My intuition is that the intersection is pretty much empty.

Who says "valuation"? I am talking about "profits", something that none of the the upcoming IPO debutantes have managed to achieve.

For the founders, IPO/merger is pure profit. They don't care what happens afterwards.

Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism touches on this concept, where there's a constantly shifting opposition to the market that itself becomes engulfed in its own market, to be advertised.

So for example all the productivity/digital detox channels and videos are themselves a consumer demand to be watched on YouTube, on phones. And now we have anti-AI products marking themselves higher for a feature that didn't previously exist. It's like the tree of capital gets split at every turn.

This is sad and dystopian, why don't companies instead make AI optional in their products?

Among IT giants, Apple is the only such option.

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