Like, really? If you've used ChatGPT and it didn't do anything useful for you, I'm sorry, but the problem was between the keyboard and the chair.
What does ChatGPT do for you?
I don't know about the claims, but "the claims are exaggerated" is very different from "AI is waste".
For example, did a month ago they anticipate the computer use tool? When did they expect it to happen?
You ask it about Hölderlin, and quality drops off, because Hölderlin is not that well studied in the Anglo-American sphere, the majority of Hölderlin studies is in German. It's odd that it cannot translate what it ingested in German and bring it back up in English.
And when you ask it about chemistry ChatGPT is totally lost because it has no idea about concepts, even though the concepts are explained in the textbooks it has read. Until there is a breakthrough that allows AI models to gain understanding all these models are plainly useless.
One can tell - any graduate student in any of the sciences has read way less than ChatGPT but their understanding is infinitely better.
But I do think it's overhyped, and I was referring specifically to the generative AI which although cool, doesn't actually create anything new.
If I just took on 1 million USD in debt without a clear plan how to repay it. I would not feel optimistic and imaginative about how I can spend this money. I would go into risk averse mindset.