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by double051 630 days ago
This sentiment feels overly dismissive about the possibilities here. This is the first pass at a new user experience, and I find it already to be compelling to try for various subjects.

Andrej Karpathy has been tweeting about it positively, and I believe he has a good intuition about these kinds of technologies. https://twitter.com/karpathy

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This sentiment feels overly dismissive about the possibilities here.

No, I see the gp as talking about the possibilities of this technology - it's possibility to waste someone's time. The problem, in a sense, isn't just that it's injecting simple content with "fluff" but that the fluff is formulaic. Listening to a human speak in awe struck tones about "magic" give the listener at least a sense that a real person was convinced by X. Listening to simulation of this, you lose the filter of the real person.

Of course, this is just the automated continuation of the existing standard of talk show hosts who gush over whatever is placed in front of them so it's just one more step down the general mediocratizaiton of the world, not a special step. But it still is a step in that direction.

I don't hate the product, but God I hate appeal to authority.