Comment by elcdodedocle

The closest to a short answer I can give: I have been infatuated with this industry (not just AI, but tech in general) since I was a kid in the 80s. I have seen lots of hype. Nothing even close to this. That is already a very good reason: That it can simply tank the economy and have even worse consequences if we put too much faith in it. And I think there is pretty solid evidence that we are, but let's not get into it. Even if the hype turned out to be justified (It never is), it would still suck at so many levels: The version that is being pushed onto us is the worst possible one. It's a lead-in-gasoline asbestos-in-everything darkest-timeline type of event, only bigger. It basically promises to turn all of us into mere line operators of a dystopian knowledge stealing & gate-keeping machine that we can't own or control. I can't see how it benefits anything or anyone except from some megayatch-owning suborbital-flying useless jerks and their island visiting friends. How can a community of people built around using our brains to produce awesome things be excited about a product that is essentially designed for us to get lazy and turn them off to pay for someone else's statistical approach to it as yet another enshittified service?