| HN is honestly pretty poor on AI commentary, and this post is a new low. Here, at least, I think there must be a large contributing factor of confusion about what a "system card" shows. The general factors I think contribute, after some months being surprised repeatedly: - It's tech, so people commenting here generally assume they understand it, and in day-to-day conversation outside their job, they are considered an expert on it. - It's a hot topic, so people commenting here have thought a lot about it, and thus aren't likely to question their premises when faced with a contradiction. (c.f. the odd negative responses have only gotten more histrionic with time) - The vast majority of people either can't use it at work, or if they are, it's some IT-procured thing that's much more likely to be AWS/gCloud thrown together, 2nd class, APIs, than cutting edge. - Tech line workers have strong antibodies to tech BS being sold by a company as gamechanging advancements, from the last few years of crypto - Probably by far the most important: general tech stubborness. About 1/3 to 1/2 of us believe we know the exact requirements for Good Code, and observing AI doing anything other than that just confirms it's bad. - Writing meta-commentary like this, or trying to find a way to politely communicate "you don't actually know what you're talking about just because you know what an API is and you tried ChatGPT.app for 5 minutes", are confrontational, declasse, and arguably deservedly downvoted. So you don't have any rhetorical devices that can disrupt any of the above factors. |