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The current strategy of the AI hype machine is to exhaust people's reserves of attention by presenting a never-ending stream of hard-to-verify "positive" claims
by romaniv 6mo ago
The current strategy of the AI hype machine is to exhaust people's reserves of attention by presenting a never-ending stream of hard-to-verify "positive" claims. It's Gish Gallop done on the Internet scale with a never-ending parade of tech influencers, proxy "journalists" and low-value accounts. The whole strategy aims for saturation and demoralized acceptance.
It's no surprise that people readjust their immediate reactions by expressing hostility and skepticism about anything AI-related without spending much time on analysis. In fact, it's an entirely rational repones.
Complaining about it without acknowledging the larger picture is disingenuous.
In this particular case, using the term "machine learning" would likely avoid the immediate negative reaction.
- Waterluvian 6mo agoIt feels related to “it’s easier to argue with a smart person than an idiot.” It’s really exhausting to feel negative all the time when faced with the cavalcade of terribly weak claims.
- no_shadowban_6 6mo agoWritten like someone who hasn't used AI since the great paradigm shift of December 2025.
- bigstrat2003 6mo agoThere was no such paradigm shift. LLMs still suck just as much as they did before, in the exact same ways they did before. In 6 months you'll be trying to BS us about the "great paradigm shift of summer 2026".
- rogerrogerr 6mo agoWas that the one immediately after the great paradigm shift of November 2025, and before the great paradigm shift of January 2026? I think I remember it.
- ainch 6mo agoThe Gaussian Processes underpinning this work are hardly a product of the 'AI Hype Machine' - they've been around for decades, have strong statistical underpinnings, and are being widely explored for experimental design across many disciplines. Reflexive and poorly-informed backlash to any variety of machine learning is no more productive than blindly hyping up LLMs.
- toraway 6mo agoMeta Platforms, Inc featuring this technology with a title announcing “AI for American-produced cement and concrete” is, on the other hand, 1000% a product of the AI Hype Machine.
- ainch 6mo agoSure, it's clearly marketing. I think a private company pursuing marketing via open research with open source code (including datasets) is a good trade. A hypey blogpost + research is better than no blogpost and no research.
- simianwords 6mo agoStop blaming random stuff for your own shortcomings.