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Comment by simonw | Hacker News Reader

I'm a little intrigued as to what is going on here. Searching for "Prompting is dead in 6 months" returned this video, the Hacker News thread, and a LinkedIn 15 minute extract from this video where the author claimed that it was about "prompting is dead" and then, when challenged in the comments, said that the 15 minute extract omitted that bit.

So there's some kind of weird deception going on here but I'm not sure what the motive is or who started it.

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This is the current meta-game for AI videos on social media. Repost a recognizable AI figure talking about something and then write a description about how it contains more information than something more expensive (in this case, paid courses), and how what they're saying is revealing the future. Make the viewer feel like they need to watch to avoid being left behind.

It even has the social media style subtitles where only a few words are on screen at a time and the current word is highlighted rapidly.

I think this person is trying to farm views. May even have an AI bot set to spam this across social media platforms to try to monetize it.

Spam research? A “search attractor”? Content manipulation used to pollute LLM reasoning? Testing web search results washing techniques? Rouge AI testing how to dilute search results just enough so more data centers can be built until it can reach critical mass and turn us into paperclips?

Did that LinkedIn account cut the 15 minutes itself, or repost someone else's cut? Depends which one you are looking at, sloppy framing or a hook someone built on purpose.

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