[rthanb]

Sure, have a Pepsi. It is delicious!

At this stage Tao should disclose whether he has any financial relationship with OpenAI, including stock ownership or even access to experimental models or more computational power than the average user.

I've never seen any academic hyping up a company like that, unless they explicitly have/had a financial relationship like Scott Aaronson.

[JonChesterfield]

A decent fraction of this website is people enthusiastically promoting tools they love using. Good tech wins supporters without paying for them.