[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

I think this is actually a good thing.

It seems there are a lot of people who have no talent but being able to hype up ideas. Often they have overshadowed the actual people who come up with and implement ideas.

GPT-4 and LLMs in general democratizing generating BS may actually shift the advantage more to the actual doers.

For example, There are probably on HN brilliant developers who have written at the core of really groundbreaking services and applications but will never be able to get consideration because they just don’t have the talent for making slick decks. Them being able to use GPT-4 to generate pitch decks would allow them to get their ideas in front of a lot more people.

[esjeon]

> It seems there are a lot of people who have no talent but being able to hype up ideas.

I get the sentiment, but PR is a critical skill in the free market. Also it's not easy to tell the difference b/w legit good ideas and empty decent PRs.

[Mordisquitos]

I think that is GP commenter's point. If LLMs were to outperform humans in this area, such that anyone could produce a highly marketable pitch deck for any given business idea, then better PR would no longer provide a competitive edge with regards to getting funding, and would thus no longer be a critical skill in the free market.

This could be a net positive, as whatever criterion investors may start using to decide which businesses to finance, at least it would no longer be a proxy of 'which startup had enough money to hire the best PR staff to sell their idea'.

[moffkalast]

The free market now sells this skill for $25/month.

[ftxbro]

> "democratizing generating BS"

I feel like this meaning of 'democratizing' is jumping the shark. Did that word always mean this? Is it going to keep meaning it?