[Workaccount2]

People are threatened. They are not going to celebrate the thing that makes them irrelevant. They are going to talk shit about it and downplay it.

[longtimelistnr]

im not sure if threatened is correct, i think it's more a collective "why?" And there hasn't been a particuarly convincing answer

[TillE]

Right, tons of gen AI stuff is super impressive. It's really cool that we can do all this stuff. In this thread we're talking about a fun toy.

But the actual practical applications are like, small useful tools. There's no real sign we're heading for a world-changing trillion dollar industry.