[kmacdough]

I suspect it's also a general fatigue with the over-hype. It is moving fast, but every step improvement has come with its own mini hype cycle. The demos are very curated and make the model look incredibly flexible and resilient. But when we test the product in the wild, it's constantly surprising the simple tasks it blunders on. It's natural to become a bit cynical and human to take that cynicism on the attack. Not saying it's right, just natural, in the same way that it's natural for the marketing teams to be as misleading as they can get away with. Both are annoying, but there's not much to do.

[piloto_ciego]

Cynicism is (arguably) the intellectually easy strategy.

If you’re cynical and you get it right that everything “sucks” you look like a genius, if you get it wrong there is no penalty.

If you aren’t cynical and you talk about how great something is going to be and it flops you look like an idiot. The social penalty is much higher.