Slightly spicier: I say this as a guy who writes jokes and non-fiction... I think getting our politics via comedians is generally a bad thing. Getting jokes about politics from comedians? Great. But not our politics. Comedians can act as pundits, but then later say "I'm just a comedian."

I'm still annoyed that the OpenAI marketing campaign to investors that "we're building something that will probably enslave humanity" actually worked.

That shouldn't work. Surely that's both obviously not true and also bad.

Because LLMs *are* cool. Really cool. And can do legitimately interesting and useful things.

But because they pass the Turing Test and are marketed as forerunners of a vengeful AI god people forget that they are just probabilistically querying the corpus.

Like, the fact they can train comparable models for much cheaper, with lower quality chips is genuinely cool.

But it's not some random guy, it's a well funded start-up.
They're not starting from scratch, they're building off OpenAI responses.