[knowsuchagency]

It's annoying to see a link to a Theo video -- same guy who went with Simon to OpenAI's GPT-5 glazefest and had to backpedal when everyone realized what a shill he is.

I know neither of them are journalists -- I'm probably expecting too much -- but Simon should know better.

[Ancapistani]

While not a journalist, Simon definitely has a background in journalism.

He was one of the original authors of Django, back when it was a “web framework for journalists with deadlines”.

[knowsuchagency]

Exactly. That's why I said he should know better. He never should have gone to that event to hype GPT-5 under the guise of "testing" it out.

[beng-nl]

This seems to me like a very harsh take on Theo’s motivations. I don’t know him beyond what I’ve learned from his videos, but given occams razor I’m inclined to believe him: gpt5 seemed much better during the private demo than the public release. There are many possible explanations but jumping to ‘shill’ (implying deception) seems uncalled for.

[rolymath]

Literally the only channel I've ever blocked on Youtube.