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People are threatened. They are not going to celebrate the thing that makes them irrelevant. They are going to talk shit about it and downplay it.

im not sure if threatened is correct, i think it's more a collective "why?" And there hasn't been a particuarly convincing answer

Right, tons of gen AI stuff is super impressive. It's really cool that we can do all this stuff. In this thread we're talking about a fun toy.

But the actual practical applications are like, small useful tools. There's no real sign we're heading for a world-changing trillion dollar industry.