alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Most of us were amused when DALL-E and its peers went mainstream, and we were quick to point out the obvious flaws.
Then ChatGPT hit the scene and again, many of us dismissed it as a parlor trick that would never amount to much.
Using LLMs for coding initially was a only small step up from basic code completion, and a welcome farewell to Stack Overflow.
I am curious: what was the specific moment that you went from those quaint, dismissive observations to a slightly panicked, "Uh Oh" realization of what these models can do?
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My first time using Grok. I'd been so used to using AI models that declined to do things I told them, like tagging people in a video feed, helping me "optimize" my taxes or managing my Twitter bot farm.
Grok just did these things for me, no questions asked, no ethical judgments. No woke.
Elon really doesn't get enough credit for Grok. People don't want the most powerful reasoning model or "constitutional AI". They just want a model that does what they say. Elon understood that insight (like he usually does) and no one else really did and that's probably why Grok has been growing rapidly over the last two years or so.
F*ck me, astroturfinf is strong here and on reddit
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