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You have to give openai credit - their marketing strategy and effort is amazing. There’s spam everywhere. Albeit those claiming their jobs are already being replaced or those claiming they’ve written entire apps using chat gpt are quieting down a bit. They’ve either been called out for their nonsense or they got ahead of themselves.


>You have to give openai credit - their marketing strategy and effort is amazing. There’s spam everywhere.

If it was that easy, every new such initiative (whether AI or any previous domain) would have it, of all those that have access to funding.

One reason there's "spam" everywhere, is that a lot of the spam is genuine interest.

Like how Haskell and Rust get tons of coverage on HN with zero (or close) actual marketing spam or advertising budget.


But nowadays, you can profit off people's attention alone directly. This does not prove that there is no genuine interest. I am geniuenly interested myself.

But, there are financial incentives in generating a lot of sensational content, whether positive or negative about almost everything including AI, Rust, political issues, even scientific issues like climate or pandemics, etc.




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