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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a tool which can be used to great effect in the right setting, for example to wrap cold knowledge summarily stated into formats with much broader appeal and to revert the process.

However it's being sold by greedy fuckers who stand to gain from people jumping into the hype-train as something else altogether: a shortcut into knowledge and the output of those who have it, because there's a lot more money to be made from that than there is of something which can "write an article from a set of bullet points".

For me the most infuriating aspect of this is that this is hardly the 1st such hype train going to "FleeceTheSuckersTown" coming out of "TechBrosCity" that we've seen in the last 2 decades, not even the 2nd or the 3rd - there have been a lot of such things always following the same formula, to the point that the "great men" of the age in Tech (such as Musk) are, unlike the ones in the first Tech boom (that ended in 2000), people who repeatedly used this kind of thing to make themselves rich by fleecing suckers, not makers.