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Talking about the demo and not those HN reactions (they suck): So we all in tech have collectively forgotten the whole 'apple iphones didn't actually work when they were being presented and it was all just theatre' thing? Because I wouldn't trust a slick tech demo like that at all. (I also want to know about all the edge cases where it fails and well, there is also the whole 'what is this even for?' thing). (And yes some HN people did voice these concerns).
E: also don't these GPT things have a sort of token limit? After a while they just get stuck in 'cannot accept more new data' mode basically (which I assume is a limit so people don't use up too much compute (I hate how we are making that a word now)), how would that work? (This is more about the robofuckers, who have also not learned anything from the previous gen of this shit when somebody turned the naughty cybersex function off).
Don't forget about how the presentations for Google Gemini and OpenAI Sora and Devin were all ~~faked~~ embellished too, but no one talks about that anymore either.
I'm still waiting for even one actual use-case for sexy Clippy that isn't generating SEO spam while speedrunning climate change.
Some people at the EFF (or people who used to work there at least, apparently they sort of sold out, not clear on the details dont quote me on this one) prob had a small heart attack on the privacy concerns of linking cameras with openAI gpt systems. Chatbot powered advertisements, as seen in the movies!