If a topic is raised that will influence many businesses and general way of life, it should be encouraged.
Closing a debate down because it doesn’t affect a group of individuals is laughable.
Agreed... but in many cases a post comes across as a barely-veiled pitch rather than a genuine attempt at sparking discourse. - The first post here reads (to me at least, and I suspect others) as the opening of a pitch rather than genuine debate.
The clumsily-written, cheesy style of it adds to this... and this is why it garnered the reaction it did.
Closing a debate down because it doesn’t affect a group of individuals is laughable.
AI won’t affect anything or anyone.
Yeah OK.
...As is strawman argument, deflection and projection. That's not what was said at all.
'AI' isn't remotely new - as has been pointed out here already. It's doesn't really live up to its current hype either; as is evidenced by the reaction to the opening post - experienced level-headed business people didn't fall for the woo-woo pied piper stuff.
There have also been irregularities pointed out in the back-story... I myself pointed out that what we were dealing with here was an untraceable (and therefore infringing) 'limited company' running off a mobile phone number; which remains a 'read flag' in business, even today.
The O/P was more assertively asked to clarify legitimate points:
@Elite Ai I don't mean to come across as negative, but did you use AI to construct your website?
Just to cover off why I ask:
- it does not list the company number (you're supposedly a limited company)
- it does not have your registered office/trading address (a legal requirement to trade in the UK)
- it has no real detail about who you are, the people involved etc; e.g. who are the "visionary founders"
- it is illegal from a privacy/data/GDPR perspective; e.g.
- it has no T&Cs
- it has no cookie or data policy
- it has no cookie notice to opt in/out
- it ranks for no keywords in Google, not even your brand/company name bring up your site
Please point us to your limited company details and I'd suggest you correct your websites trading position online.
Their response has been conspicuous by its absence!
'AI' isn't a revelation nor a revolution; nor is the 'digital', connected world generally. If anything, the great unwashed have been 'travelling backwards' in terms of what they have and what they know. - The very term 'AI' has become infantilised and abused to the point where it is just a buzzword.
Home computing is now in its fifth decade... and 'social media' in the form of forums were one of the first uses found for a relatively cheap computer and a modem. Forums in a form such as this were a feature of the WWW (often conflated with the Internet) as it emerged to, and was sold to, the general public.
Decades of experience teaches that these things have (as most things do) a 'product life cycle'. And it's well understood that once-serious and credible platforms for discussion - particularly on the topic of business - are quickly killed when they become overrun with individuals simply 'pitching' at each other; particularly when the latest 'medicine show' rolls into town and the claques and claqueurs get to work.
For example, I can think of one immediately which was once a fantastic resource for Scottish Businesses, set up and run by a local accountant. The owner (presumably trying to develop traffic and ad revenue) stopped moderating it properly; and it became infested with fake conversations... as I say, the old music-hall/flea market claque/claquer technique; older than anyone walking the earth today.
...Comically; it's gone from being a 'Scottish Business Forum' (it was sold on to someone else as such) to one that rather cynically attempts to 'ape' the title of this place.
To illustrate just how lame it became there is a thread started in June 2011 on the topic of 'business grants available to Scottish businesses'... this was instigated by the original site owner in its dying days. It gathered very few posts between June 2011 and December 2013; by which time the forum was 'dead'.
Its new owner gave it a bit of a prod in January 2018... even (IIRC) emailed some of the old members to come forward, contribute, try and give a bit of CPR to it. By February, it was dead!
There are no posts on that thread for another five years... 8 this year (2023) three if which have the single word "thanks" as some spammer tries to get their post count up so they can post links... Five in some sort of Cyrillic text... four of those a single word...
Every other thread (that I checked earlier) amounts to no more than a game of 'pitch ping pong'... there is nothing in that forum worth spending the time to read; and I frankly pity the busineses that appear to have been persuaded to advertise on it. - Though to be fair, perhaps they were 'sold that dummy' some years ago and their ads remain up to provide 'packing'... much as the boards are 'padded out' with old content from SBF...
I don't think many people want to see UKBF descend down that particular sewage pipe.
