Because the average user of AI is not a Hacker News user who understands its limitations, and the ones who do understand their limitations tend to exaggerate an

Because the average user of AI is not a Hacker News user who understands its limitations, and the ones who do understand their limitations tend to exaggerate and overhype it to make people think it can do anything. The only real fix for it is for companies like OpenAI to encourage better usage (e.g. tutorials), but there's no incentive for them to do so yet. I wrote a rant a few months back about the greatest threat to generative AI is people using it poorly: https://minimaxir.com/2023/10/ai-sturgeons-law/ https://minimaxir.com/2023/10/ai-sturgeons-law/