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@marick<\/a> The mechanism is \"news\" media. It's telling the CEOs investors are demanding \"AI\" and companies without it will be left behind. It's telling investors CEOs are doing this because they know other investors want it. Neither is actually expressing a demand to the other. The parties arranging for placed \"news\" stories (and then not even having to do that once they seed it, since the same scam creates perception of demand for \"news\" about the thing) are the only actual sources of pressure.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-16:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/115690284333055289","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/115690284333055289","objectType":"note","content":"

@marick<\/a> The mechanism is \"news\" media. It's telling the CEOs investors are demanding \"AI\" and companies without it will be left behind. It's telling investors CEOs are doing this because they know other investors want it. Neither is actually expressing a demand to the other. The parties arranging for placed \"news\" stories (and then not even having to do that once they seed it, since the same scam creates perception of demand for \"news\" about the thing) are the only actual sources of pressure.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/115690284333055289","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/users\/marick\/statuses\/115689987774875827","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@marick\/115689987774875827"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/users\/marick"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-09:objectType=thread:nonce=4da5ceee7fe772ca","notice_info":{"local_id":"11676971","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-09T15:20:47+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/115690284333055289"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/users\/marick","displayName":"Brian Marick","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111724-original-tmp20230408232020.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111724-96-20230408232020.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111724-48-20230408232020.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111724-24-20230408232020.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"111724"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/111724-96-20230408232020.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Software person (programming and testing). Involved in Agile from relatively early on. One of those grumpy old-timers who think it's lost its way.I retired during Covid. As I\u2019m \u201cbroke to harness,\u201d I keep up what was part of my schtick: read widely and oddly, then explain outside-tech ideas to a mostly-techie audience. Instead of talks, my venues are a blog, a podcast (infrequent), and link-heavy Mastodon posts.I like boosting other people\u2019s posts. My leftish #uspol posts are so labeled.","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@marick","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"marick","displayName":"Brian Marick","note":"Software person (programming and testing). Involved in Agile from relatively early on. One of those grumpy old-timers who think it's lost its way.I retired during Covid. As I\u2019m \u201cbroke to harness,\u201d I keep up what was part of my schtick: read widely and oddly, then explain outside-tech ideas to a mostly-techie audience. Instead of talks, my venues are a blog, a podcast (infrequent), and link-heavy Mastodon posts.I like boosting other people\u2019s posts. My leftish #uspol posts are so labeled."}},"content":"

Something I wonder about. When it comes to LLMs, it\u2019s often said that the shareholders or \u201cMr. Market\u201d are demanding its use. What\u2019s the *structure* of that demand? How is it made known to CEOs? It\u2019s sure not coming from me and my Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund. Is it rather an individualistic thing with, say, hedge fund managers? <\/p>

If so: OK, sure. CEOs are responding rationally to investor pressure. But why is that particular set of investors making that particular irrational demand?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-16:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/users\/marick\/statuses\/115689987774875827","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/users\/marick\/statuses\/115689987774875827","objectType":"note","content":"

Something I wonder about. When it comes to LLMs, it\u2019s often said that the shareholders or \u201cMr. Market\u201d are demanding its use. What\u2019s the *structure* of that demand? How is it made known to CEOs? It\u2019s sure not coming from me and my Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund. Is it rather an individualistic thing with, say, hedge fund managers? <\/p>

If so: OK, sure. CEOs are responding rationally to investor pressure. But why is that particular set of investors making that particular irrational demand?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@marick\/115689987774875827","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-09:objectType=thread:nonce=4da5ceee7fe772ca","notice_info":{"local_id":"11676633","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-09T14:07:00+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@marick\/115689987774875827"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/5937715","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}