[evertedsphere]

the unpleasant truth is that the odious "bot marketing" you perceive is just the effect of influencers everywhere seizing upon the exciting topic du jour

if you go back a few weeks or months there was also hype about minimax, nvidia's "world models", dsv3, o3, hunyuan, flux, papers like those for titans or lcm rendering transformers completely irrelevant…

the fact that it makes for better "content" than usual (say for titans) is because of the competitive / political / "human interest" context — china vs the US, open weights vs not, little to no lip service paid to "safety" and "alignment" vs those being primary aspects of messaging and media strategy, export controls and allegedly low hardware resources vs tons of resources, election-related changes in how SV carries itself politically — and while that is to blame for the difference in sheer scale the underlying phenomenon is not at all different

the disease here is influencerism and the pus that oozes out of the sores it produces is rarely very organic

[versteegen]

Thanks for saying it. People are far too cynical, and blame everything on bots. The truth is they should be a lot more cynical, and blame everything on human tendencies!