Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
Definitely. The tech is impressive but anyone I&#x27;ve spoken to thinks of it as Cleverbot 2.0, and among the more technically minded I&#x27;ve found that people mostly are indifferent. Hell, IRL most people I know don&#x27;t think much of it, though on HN and elsewhere online I see a lot of people praising it as the next coming of Christ (this thread included) which puts it in a similar tier as crypto and other Web3 hypetrains as far as I&#x27;m concerned.<p>Every &quot;AI&quot; related business idea I&#x27;ve seen prop up recently is people just hooking up a textbox to ChatGPT&#x27;s API and pretending they&#x27;re doing something novel or impressive, presumably to cash in on VC money ASAP. The Notion AI is an absolute fucking joke of epic proportions in its uselessness yet they keep pushing it in every newsletter<p>And a funny personal anecdote, a colleague of mine tried to use ChatGPT4 when answering a customer question (they work support). The customer <i>instantly</i> knew it was AI-generated and was quite pissed about it, so the support team has an unofficial rule to <i>not</i> do that any more.