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points by lifeisloving 6 hours ago | 0 comments

Whats an example of a company, that existed pre-AI that has so far failed to take advantage of AI and has fallen behind?

I see a ton of examples of companies overusing AI and destroying their brand/image and products, but not many who abstained and are hurting. Using AI does not give you automatic wins, and using it solely because its available does not make you competent.

[–] ehnto 2 hours ago

Its going to be wildly distributed and varied so hard to spot, but look for companies where the main output was commodity B2B assets and you can see a real impact. Marketing copy, images, graphic design in the low and mid tiers. Real businesses supplied that stuff and even adopting AI wouldn't help, since their customers could just do it in house now.

There's heaps of companies between small and conglomerate and the middle area is where the commodity asset companies lived. Generating low stakes copy, art, apps and websites for small companies.

[–] lifeisloving 1 hour ago

Okay I'll conceed there, but I dont think my rule applies to businesses that were already slop factories pre-ai.