If You Know That Hey Hi (AI) is Hype, Then Stop Participating in It
WITHOUT naming any particular Web site (there are so many culprits in that respect), let's just say that many decent people continue to play on/along with this bogus narrative of "Hey Hi (AI) arms race" and "era/age of Hey Hi" and "Hey Hi Revolution". I know for sure (they tell me so) that some of those sites' editors know too well what they're doing. They know it's hype, but they participate in it regardless. They do so for profit or clickbait. This sort of "logic" will harm their credibility in the long run. It'll help the bubble though.
Not all those articles are LLM slop, but some of them are. The slop finds ways to fight for its own survival by marketing itself. And in the process the Web gets filled with lies, including a lot of hype about the generators of these lies.
To break this cycle do what Cory suggested a year and 2 days ago: "I’ve had to make rule for my events: The first person to mention AI owes everyone else a drink."
Nowadays anything synthetic gets called "Hey Hi", even if it's neither new nor innovative. It's very buzzwords-infused, it's seldom Machine Learning. It just costs a lot of money to run and it's losing a lot of money (some fools are willing to cushion the losses because of the hype). Getting machines to write a lot of coherent text (not the same as accurate text) for you is NOT new/s. What's new is the HYPE. So break this hype cycle. Be part of the solution to this valuation-boosting Ponzi scheme. █
