I appreciate you putting words to the astro-turfing. two areas llms have helped me are in (i) giving me work and (ii) learning how people in my life repeat what they hear from “knowledgeable” people. And not saying the voices proselytizing llms aren’t knowledgeable but I bet there’s an agenda behind their words (ie “i have something powerful” and “give me money!)

> Kind of sad seeing so many “tech people” (including here on HN) falling for it hook, line, and sinker.

Unfortunately it is not sufficient for someone to think "I am immune to marketing" to actually be immune against marketing.

"People who think they're immune to marketing are the biggest suckers of all" always been bad, but it's worse than ever because a bunch of people have decided that the most reliable way to judge AI performance is its vibes on X The Everything App. I can't even really fault places like doomers.ai when their marks are practically asking to get conned.