I am cautiously optimistic about how many people are seeing through the AI hype - I've (consciously) been through a few tech hype cycles and I've never seen folks catch on to the grift this quickly before
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Like, for comparison, with the cryptocurrency grift I'd been arguing against it for like 7 years (ie. since it became a Problem) before I noticed the broader public opinion shifting? Whereas with LLMs and the like it seems to have only taken 2 years or so
(Not saying that my arguing shifted the public opinion, rather that's just my time reference point)