Comment by jimbo808
1 day ago
This is not always the case, but I get the impression that many of them are paid shills, astroturf accounts, bots, etc. Including on HN. Big AI is running on an absurd amount of capital and they're definitely using that capital to keep the hype cycle going as long as possible while they figure out how to turn a profit (or find an exit, if you're cynical - which I am).
That’s a bit of a reductive view.
For example, even the people with the most negative view on AI don’t let candidates use AI during interviews.
You can disagree on the effectiveness of the tools but this fact alone suggests that they are quite useful, no?
There is a difference between being useful for sandboxed toy problems and being useful in production.
Not really. I'd rather find out very quickly that someone doesn't know a domain space rather than having to wade through plausible looking but bad answers to figure out the exact same thing.
At this point it's foolish to assume otherwise. Applies to also places like reddit and X, there are intelligence services and companies with armies of bot accounts. Modern LLM makes it so easy to create content that looks real enough. Manufacturing consent is very easy now.