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>>kcorbi+(OP)
Interesting analysis. Suprised HN is so negative towards AI (and that the positive:negative ratio to AI is about the same as it was for Crypto a few years ago!)

The obvious difference is that AI has abundant use-cases, while Crypto only has tenuous ones.

Maybe there is added negativity considering it is a technology where there is clearly a potential threat to jobs on a personal level (e.g. lift operators were very negative towards automatic lifts).

>>Closi+g8
It's not obvious to me whether we've actually found a good killer app for generative AI yet, unless you consider chatgpt or sites like midjourney the killer apps. A lot of the new wave of ai startups are just wrappers for gpt. I don't think that adds a ton of value over just asking gpt-4 your query as opposed to subscribing to a billion different ai services. I also question the value of ai art in general when everyone involved in creative labor thinks you're a piece of shit for using it.

>>__loam+ug
A lot of startups in general are just wrappers over something. The reason for that is that people on average (not "an average person", it includes all of us) have many out-of-their-scope issues and aren't even aware of something generic that could help solving it. Dividing a common [al]mighty resource into hundreds of packaged solutions and marketing them separately is how people get hold of the unknown. They then can choose to migrate to a root tech/resource, or to stay where they are for various reasons.