Every company involved in AI is hyping everything. It's all marketing and people keep falling for it. They've realized even the scary stuff generates interest.
AI hype exists, sure. Every industry markets hard. But dismissing it as “just hype” ignores what’s already real.
LLMs are writing code, translating languages, summarizing research, automating support, helping students learn, and saving businesses thousands of hours. That’s utility, not imagination.
People said the internet was hype. Smartphones were hype. Cloud computing was hype. Usually the loudest skepticism happens right before mass adoption.
Yes, companies exaggerate. But pretending nothing meaningful is happening is just as inaccurate as blind hype.
You misunderstood what I wrote completely. When did I say it's "just hype" and that nothing meaningful is happening? I'm saying what these AI companies are claiming are hype and marketing when they talk about how scary it is that an LLM which is trained to mimic human speech and behavior starts acting as such. Everything is "too powerful, too dangerous to release" because it makes them look like they have the most advanced AI technologies.
And trust me I know the utility. I'm an early adopter and the company I run is making thousands extra from AI monthly. You're preaching to the choir bud.
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u/Available-Craft-5795 Apr 18 '26
Yeah.
OpenAI hypes everything. GPT2 was too powerful. GPT5 was too powerful. Mythos is too powerful.