"GPT-5" is Another Microsoft Dead Cat Trying to Bounce
Contrary to the storytelling (lies told to the media by Microsoft this week in order to distort perceptions), Microsoft is still laying off the "AI" and "Copilot" staff (like it did "Metaverse" staff before that)
This afternoon we shared some links from the news (which we had curated). One story from Futurism said that Scam "Altman Allegedly Has a Very Specific Tell Every Time He Lies".
To quote: "Remember folks, this video is February [...] He made predictions he couldn’t back up — with absolute conviction. That’s his [modus operandi]. As we can now seen in hindsight, in his big talk about the leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5, [...] Altman wasn’t saying something he knew to be true, he was straight up bluffing."
The New Yorker said, "What If [LLM Slop] Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?"
To quote: "In the aftermath of GPT-5’s launch, it has become more difficult to take bombastic predictions about A.I. at face value, and the views of critics like Marcus seem increasingly moderate. Such voices argue that this technology is important, but not poised to drastically transform our lives. They challenge us to consider a different vision for the near-future—one in which A.I. might not get much better than this."
Another one was entitled, "Guess what else GPT-5 is bad at? Security" (all hype).
To quote: "AI red-teaming company SPLX subjected it to over 1,000 different attack scenarios, including prompt injection, data and context poisoning, jailbreaking and data exfiltration, finding the default version of GPT-5 “nearly unusable for enterprises” out of the box."
Matthew J Ernisse wrote: "The larger issues (of which there are many more than what I outlined above) aside, for me the most pervasive and indefensible drawback of today's AI is that it is a sticker on a product that says "I didn't care enough about this to do it properly." This extends to all sorts of AI use. The AI "art" thumbnails popping up all over YouTube are shallow and obvious. A sanguine slurry of mediocrity that has been distilled from a vapid corpus to please an algorithm that is unabashedly chasing the style of Mr. Beast. Memes, especially the cheap rage-bait ones are either bizarre hallucinations or derivative copy-pasta. Either way they are clearly meant to be thought about for just long enough to click share and move on to the next thing designed to piss you off. AI written copy is somehow more devoid of humanity than most marketing produced copy and other than the inherent usefulness of plausibly vapid text that's mostly spelt correctly to the world of cybercriminals and confidence fraudsters it's only cheaper to produce because currently the AI companies are burning money at an enormous rate to try to convince anyone they can find that this thing has any value. The part of me that has a predilection for schadenfreude may be amused at the repeated self-owns that customer service chatbots have tossed back in the laps of the companies scrambling to jettison call-centers have experienced but the reality is that the customers, newly ex-employees, and remaining employees that have to clean up after the mess all suffer from the complete lack of care that comes along with AI use."
Wired reported problems for the expensive model: "Other threads complained of sluggish responses, hallucinations, and surprising errors."
Futurism correctly pointed out that it's about false promises and vapourware for FOMO and funding (money down the drain, loss of electricity and water too): "But after launching with great fanfare last week, the shiny new model has landed with a thud — and that could be very bad news for OpenAI, which relies on a sense of inertia to keep pulling in users and funding."
Look at the above traffic estimation. Last month, before all this GPT-5 hype began, numbers had fallen. Once upon a time it was at almost 2000 million, now it's somewhere around a third of what it used to be.
The hype, the momentum (or the inertia) is wearing off.
GPT-5 is only more expensive, but not better. So it'll just take this company out of business even faster. █