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Why is AI so dramatic? I just watched mean girls and this is worse.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
I would like to answer that, but OpenAI could probably spend $100,000 per detractor to crush them and still laugh all the way to the bank.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
Money. The hype is really strong, the hype might even be justified, insane amounts of money flow in. There is a land grab going on. Blood is in the water, all the sharks are circling.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
The best case business pitch is total replacement of all white collar jobs. It's even more a "take over the world" pitch than regular tech companies. Now, quite a lot of that is unrealistic and will never be delivered, but which bit?

AI raises all sorts of extremely non-tech questions about power, which causes all the drama.

Edit: also, they've selected for people who won't ask ethical questions. Thus running into the classic villain problem of building an organization out of opportunistic traitors.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
Thank you for making me laugh. Seriously, I think working for openai already selected for people who are ok with playing in the grey area. They know they ignore copyright and a few other rules. It's not surprising to me that they would also not be very nice to each other internally.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
It's probably the perceived value & power it has.

They think they are about to change the entire world. And a very large but of the world agrees. (I personally think it's a great tool but exaggerated)

But that created an very big power play where people don't act normal anymore and the most powerhungry people come out to play.

>>jnsaff+i3
After all that money, nobody can never even think of saying that it was wasted. To keep the investment value high and justifiable, they all agree and go on with the hype. Until the end.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
They are just marketing for Microsoft's AI now.

It's all just drama to draw attention and investor money, that's it.

When the inventors leave there is nothing left to do but sell more.

>>Action+ZI
people are starting to realize they don't have any significant technical advantages over other AI companies. so all they have left is hype or trying to build a boring enterprise business where they sell a bunch of AI services to other large companies, and their lack of experience in that area is showing.

>>gdiamo+(OP)
I work for a tech startup doing communication and mkt. I'm sick of engineers sucking Sam's dick and believing every demo they watch. Even after seeing what Altman's is capable of perform in the stage. I'm also sick of the scene trying to sell "AI" (whatever that means) next to everything. We even go out of our way to promise stupid impossible stuff when we talk about multimodal or generative... It doesn't matter, it needs to sell.

Just to give a sickening example, I was approached by the CEO to fix a very bad deepfake video that some "AI" Engineer made with tools available. They requested me to use After Effects and editing to make the lips sync....

On top of that, this industry is driving billions of investment into something that is probably the death sentence for a lot of workers, cultures, and society, and that is not fixing or helping in ANY other way to our current world problems.

>>jnsaff+i3
Money is the root of all evil...

>>wouldb+56
I feel like the drama is, at least in part, borne from the fact that its impact is greatly exaggerated. Nothing's really changed.