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Moltbook is proof that GenAI was a scam

6•cadabrabra•1h ago
It’s been more than 10 years since the dawn of generative AI, and all we have to show for it, our magnum opus, is a bunch of token generators mimicking humans and having nonsensical “conversations” on a primitive, outdated UI.

You’d have thought that GenAI would replace engineers and doctors by now, but no. All we have are sycophantic, hallucinating chatbots which are also degrading in quality as their producers try to cut inference costs.

Crazy that some people still have faith in this “revolution,” which in reality is the biggest scam in all of tech history. Enjoy worse models as model providers gaslight you by increasing the version number.

Comments

mohsen1•1h ago
> You’d have thought that GenAI would replace engineers

Trust me, it has replaced software engineers in many places. I don't hear anyone hiring junior software engineers around me

cadabrabra•1h ago
That’s because we’re in a recession. It has nothing to do with AI. AI can’t replace a god damn drive thru worker. McDonald’s literally tried and failed, that’s the funny part.
verdverm•1h ago
You seem to be on a streak of making rant posts about Ai on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cadabrabra

Your opinion is in the minority here now because many of us have overwhelmingly positive experience with agents

Moltbook is not the proof you are looking for. I agree it's dumb af, but it's a novelty in a hype cycle. We won't be talking about it in a few months

You won't find proof because there is not enough research and the field is evolving faster than the research on outcomes paper pipeline can process.

cadabrabra•1h ago
Glad you agree about Moltbook. We can leave it at that, we don’t have to agree on everything.
codingdave•1h ago
There is nothing wrong with being in the minority opinion. Sometimes that is where good insights come from, but even if not, we don't need to encourage tunnel vision in the opinions here.

But I agree that the pace of the postings is a little much.

minimaxir•1h ago
The more applicable forum term-of-art is "single purpose poster", which is fine if they have a niche they excel in and can offer unique insight as a result, but that's not what's happening here.

Kevin Warsh

https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/kevin-warsh
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