"there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them"

I have read enough posts & comments on the fediverse to know the author's not exaggerating.

I claim that this extends to politics/politicians as well.

Are companies actually seeing massive productivity gains from their AI adoption? Does any of this sordid affair make sense?

This should be an easy question, but it is surprisingly hard to get a straight answer to it. Executives that tell the press that their company has gone insane will quickly find themselves removed from their positions. Employees who are honest will find themselves fired in short-order, or “randomly” selected for a round of layoffs. In fact, it is in the interests of almost every actor in the space – boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants – to obfuscate and misrepresent the success rate of AI projects. Many publicly traded companies are putting out announcements about their AI productivity gains when I know for a fact that the businesses have done nothing other than purchase Copilot licenses and declare victory.

Nobody dares to point out that the Emperor really has no clothes. Eerily similar to Trump's or Putin's regime, or any number of dicktaters.