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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Ed Zitron's given his thoughts on GPT-5's dumpster fire launch:
Personally, I can see his point - the Duke Nukem Forever levels of hype around GPT-5 set the promptfondlers up for Duke Nukem Forever levels of disappointment with GPT-5, and the "deaths" of their AI waifus/therapists this has killed whatever dopamine delivery mechanisms they've set up for themselves.
In a similar train of thought:
A.I. as normal technology (derogatory) | Max Read
I like the DNF / vaporware analogy, but did we ever have a GPT Doom or Duke3d killer app in the first place? Did I miss it?
In a literal sense, Google did attempt to make GPT Doom, and failed (i.e. a large language model can't run Doom).
In a metaphorical sense, the AI equivalent to Doom was probably AI Dungeon, a roleplay-focused chatbot viewed as quite impressive when it released in 2020.
Haha. Good find.
i think it's possible that's a cost cutting measure on part of openai
well maybe not, i hope for the worst for them https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/09/open-ai-chat-gpt5-energy-use
@BlueMonday1984 Oh, großartig - thank you for this expression. I hope I’ll remember “promptfondlers” for relevant usage opportunities.
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@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard can we have a Duke Nukem personality for GPT5. Start a nostalgic wave of prompts?
Have you ever read an article of his in full? Literally packed with facts and numbers backing up his arguments
you say "neo-luddite" as if that's a bad thing
Let me fix that for you
Can't tell if you're trolling or just willfully ignorant.
Either way, they have been cordially directed to the egress.
Ooh, what a terrible fate! What horrid crimes you must have committed to make our beloved jannies punish you with admin bits! :D
indeed
not saying it’s always the supposed infosec instances, but
Why did you skip the funniest part?
as a treat for those who click through and share the pain!
Tempted to make that my bio on some socmed site
Wulfy... saying someone cannot be right because they haven't agreed with you yet is an appeal to authority. People might be wrong, but they don't have to adopt AI in order to have an informed opinion.
If you're asking me how to design a prompt for a particular AI, then I don't know a single thing about it. If you're asking me whether AI is a good idea or not, I can be more sure of that answer. Feel free to prove me wrong, but don't say my opinion doesn't matter.
Have you seen the data centers being built just north of your house? No? Well it doesn't matter you still might have a point!
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