The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

Post by sigmoid10 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 9:20 AM UTC

haiku2077 wrote: post #111

adrian17 wrote: post #81

> This was one of the most successful product launches of all time. They signed up 100 million new user accounts in a week! They had a single hour where they signed up a million new accounts, as this thing kept on going viral again and again and again. Awkwardly, I never heard of it until now. I was aware that at some point they added ability to generate images to the app, but I never realized it was a major thing (p…

Congratulations, you are almost fully unplugged from social media. This product launch was a huge mainstream event; for a few days GPT generated images completely dominated mainstream social media.

Post by Semaphor » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 9:31 AM UTC

haiku2077 wrote: post #111

adrian17 wrote: post #81

> This was one of the most successful product launches of all time. They signed up 100 million new user accounts in a week! They had a single hour where they signed up a million new accounts, as this thing kept on going viral again and again and again. Awkwardly, I never heard of it until now. I was aware that at some point they added ability to generate images to the app, but I never realized it was a major thing (p…

Congratulations, you are almost fully unplugged from social media. This product launch was a huge mainstream event; for a few days GPT generated images completely dominated mainstream social media.

Post by stavros » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 11:16 AM UTC

derwiki wrote: post #158

haiku2077 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congratulations, you are almost fully unplugged from social media. This product launch was a huge mainstream event; for a few days GPT generated images completely dominated mainstream social media.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or sincere, but I will take it as sincere haha. I came back to work from parental leave and everyone had that same Studio Ghiblized image as their Slack photo, and I had no idea why. It turns out you really can unplug from social media and not miss anything of value: if it’s a big enough deal you will find out from another channel.

Post by stavros » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #212

sandspar wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just don't understand how people can see "100 million signups in a week" and immediately dismiss it. We're not talking about fidget spinners. I don't get why this sentiment is so common here on HackerNews. It's become a running joke in other online spaces, "HackerNews commenters keep saying that AI is a nothingburger." It's just a groupthink thing I guess, a kneejerk response.

> We're not talking about fidget spinners. We're talking about Hitler memes instead? I don't understand your feigned outrage. The actual valid commercial use case for generative images hasn't been found yet. (No, making blog spam prettier is not a good use case.)

Post by simonw » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 11:46 AM UTC

darkoob12 wrote: post #216

Should we be that excited about AI and calling a fraud and plagiarism machine "ChatGPT Mischief Buddy" without any moral deliberation?