This is firmly where I am. "The wonder is not how well the dog dances, it is that it dances at all."
reply"It's like if a squirrel started playing chess and instead of "holy shit this squirrel can play chess!" most people responded with "But his elo rating sucks""
replyBut the Squirrel is only playing chess because someone stuffed the pieces with food and it has learned that the only way to release it is by moving them around in some weird patterns.
replyI'm not trying to get coached in chess by the squirrel for 200 per month though.
replyA symptom of the increasing backlash against generative AI (both in creative industries and in coding) is that any flaw in the resulting product is predicate to call it AI slop, even if it's very explicitly upfront that it's an experimental demo/proof of concept and not the NEXT BIG THING being hyped by influencers. That nuance is dead even outside of social media.
replyAI companies set that expectation when their CEOs ran around telling anyone who would listen that their product is a generational paradigm shift that will completely restructure both labor markets and human cognition itself. There is no nuance in their own PR, so why should they benefit from any when their product can't meet those expectations?
replyBecause it leads to poor and nonconstructive discourse that doesn't educate anyone about the implications of the tech, which is expected on social media but has annoyingly leaked to Hacker News.
replyThere's been more than enough drive-by comments from new accounts/green names even in this HN submission alone.
It does lead to poor non-constructive discourse. That's why we keep calling those CEOs to task on it. Why are you not?
replyThe CEOs aren't here in the comments.
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