Not strange at all. Even though it was a success, it wasn’t a cash cow and only had limited ability to be milked though micro transactions and other revenue opportunities.
When the axe comes, all that matters is the numbers in the balance sheet. Creativity, enjoyment and artistic value be damned.
Correction, AI in the LLM/Diffusion sense is a decent tutor for cheap. Can cobble together rough temp art, and if used by an actually capable artist, make cool stuff.
Anything else and it’s a garbage firehose, it’s the undisputed king of mediocrity. Which, given the standards of SPAM and the modern web, is exactly what it’s being used for.
What a shame.
These techbros are some grade A geniuses. Goodness, training LLMs on private data from Slack!? One of the most popular corporate messaging apps? Surely! Only good things can come out from training data on corporate secrets into a braindead auto-complete model that can leak its oversized brain if you prod it just right.
Of course, no private data has ever been leaked from an LLM, right?