Did you also talk about "head and shoulders" and "pennant" patterns in stock charts? Or where the "smart money" is at? I'd like to subscribe to your paid newsletter.
Exactly. If people understood that this is super-search and super-autocomplete, we'd maybe find a real net-positive use for the tech. But I think the conversational tone will keep fooling us, especially since the LLM providers have heavily invested in that direction.
A special case of the more general cringe economy we're in. The dumbest, most outrageous ideas win, amplified by social media. Say stupid sh*t loudly, be wrong, profit.
Don't let it break you. Take whatever money you made and run.
The rest of big tech isn't much better. Big G is less stressful, but you'll see vicious and cringey behavior left and right. Hyped large startups are cults and 100% cringe. Meta is kind of the worst of both worlds though. "But they pay so well". Yeah, also: life is short.
My cynical take is that this is actually the PR strategy at OpenAI (and others that had to jump on the train): by talking up vague "singularity" scenarios, they build up the hype with investors.
Meanwhile, they're distracting the public away from the real issues, which are the same as always: filling the web with more garbage, getting people to buy stuff, decreasing attention spans and critical thinking.
The threat of job loss is also real, though we should admit that many of the writing jobs eliminated by LLMs are part of the same attention economy.