Comment by jerf

It's not an ad. It's someone trying to figure out what to do with the crap ton of GPUs they've been allocated and told to find some way to show metrics for usage going up, up, up, and the only way they can think to accomplish that is to get people to use them with zero interaction, since basically nobody cares to engage with the features otherwise.

Gotta say, this first batch of released AI features for the masses has been deeply underwhelming. Custom emojis and random pictures of me in random situations in some feed where the only reason I'm not scrolling past it is that it's a picture of me I don't remember being in hardly seems worth the valuations the stock market has been giving these things.

I suspect that if there was a way to clean up the metrics to see only what people actually wanted to engage with with these AI products, it would pop the bubble instantly. So much gaming the metrics by forcing it on people then claiming victory for the AI.

(I don't use LLMs for coding but at least that has a very clear value proposition. Search is nice now, but mostly because conventional search was ruined with malice aforethought... search AIs will follow soon enough. Enjoy that honeymoon while you can.)