[Phoenix5869]

> It was a marketing campaign. > it was never a serious thing

Yeppppp. This is what i was saying for weeks and weeks, if not months. The amount of people on Reddit who can not see the puzzle pieces of “OpenAI sells AI” , “AI is hyped” , “more hype = more attention = more money and media coverage” and put them together, is actually shocking. Every time i would point this out on Reddit, more often than not i would get downvoted, and the responses were basically “well actually, AGI is around the corner”

This community is honestly SO MUCH BETTER than a lot of futurist subs. I might just stick to this site for a while.

[dijksterhuis]

I find there can be significant cargo culting [0] on HN too when any of these topics hit the front page: OpenAI / ChatGPT / LLMs; Zoom; E2EE; regulation / policy; crypto currency / NFTs [1] etc.

That said, I’m kind of glad to hear that Reddit is worse, as it puts the situation here on HN into some wider perspective (it’s not that bad here).

[0]: meant in the form of: closed minded absolutism without full contextual appreciation or understanding of the domain (what you seem to be describing as happening on Reddit)

[1]: less so these days, I wonder if that has something do with the current AI hype cycle cough opportunistic bandwagon jumping cough o_o

[Phoenix5869]

Yeah, Reddit is pretty bad when it comes to trying to have well reasoned discussions with people.