Comment by chx

> but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was.

Must be nostalgia. AI is much, much worse. And, even more importantly, not only it is a annoying buzzword, it is already threatening lives (see the mushroom guide written by AI) and democracies (see the "singing Modi" and "New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls").

Also both OpenAI and Anthrophic argued if licenses were required to train LLMs on copyrighted content, today’s general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist.