It is some kind of poetic tragedy that an industry based around hoovering up any web accessible information with extreme aggression is failing to learn the core lessons of the prior two major AI winters¹ while galloping full tilt towards the third.
Namely, that massively overselling and under-delivering will cause the actual benefits and advances of the tech to be irrelevant. Public sentiment will curdle to angry incredulity at best, blind hatred at worst.
If you thought that hiring managers were hostile to having cryptocurrency or NFTs on a resume now, that will be as nothing compared to the hostility towards mentions of LLMs or chatbots once a profound market contraction causes unrelated businesses and likely entire small industries to wither.
Annoying users with shitty slop and annoying admins with scrapers will fade as a match to the sun compared with destroying people's hard-built livelihoods.
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