[janussunaj]

My cynical take is that this is actually the PR strategy at OpenAI (and others that had to jump on the train): by talking up vague "singularity" scenarios, they build up the hype with investors.

Meanwhile, they're distracting the public away from the real issues, which are the same as always: filling the web with more garbage, getting people to buy stuff, decreasing attention spans and critical thinking.

The threat of job loss is also real, though we should admit that many of the writing jobs eliminated by LLMs are part of the same attention economy.