alt Hacker News>Yes, some are crying about bruised egos, the feeling of wasted years, a creeping sense of status obliteration, the frustration of an unfair competitor, the indignation of feeling cheated and mistreated, and uncertainty about the future. But they are also mourning...
This nails it, however IMHO its almost all bruised egos and feeling of wasted time. I don't know the ratio of A:B but I also don't know anyone that is in the latter category of feeling doom and mourning that their craft is about to regress.
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The doom and mourning is that it's no longer their craft. Their involvement is on the threshold of no longer being useful. What does it mean for humans when the best their involvement accomplish is slowing down progress?
It's the abject lack of shame that gets to me.
None of them have pointed to any of the solutions and said "this is real innovation" - because it's all been mining existing ideas and applying them elsewhere.
Imagine you spend years working on a solution to one of these problems. Only to realize after you publish that more than half your answer already existed in another branch of mathematics and you spent a bunch of time re-inventing it.
Yes the first big solve by OAI was "stolen" and that is tragic, and pretty bad. But it looks like this new batch, the one people are crying about, has none of that stink.
I don't know what's happening exactly, but I am genuinely astonished how little people seem to care about people losing something real, dismissing it as "bruised egos", using petty terms like "whining" and "crying", or calling them some insult for the crime of being angry or sad for having a big chunk of their life pulled out from under them. I'm referring to the big picture of common talking points, not just this case.
I guess I'm not astonished that people are so bad to each other in general, but more that in the case of genAI it's so prevalent in places that seemed more elevated previously.
Part of me wonders if this is actually a form of self-defense. The misery of others can provoke sympathy or the opposite: Angry pushback to protect oneself from dwelling on their misery.