It's more like a chorus of skeptics, nay-sayers, Luddites, conspiracy nuts, doomsday predictors, arm-chair philosophers, self-proclaimed experts, etc. mixed with all of AI fan boys. The signal to noise ratio in these threads is pretty terrible these days. It's just a lot of people shouting their opinion blindly to fuel their own vanity and egos. And then you get meta discussions like this as well.
Objectively, this OpenAI press release is announcing something that I might actually spend company money on. Finding out about such things is why I read HN. A lot of my AI chats are about copy pasting bits of information into a chat just to create enough of a context so that I can get some meaningful answer. The whole groundhog day of "who are you and what are you trying to do" is very frustrating. Anything addressing that is probably useful to me. And this sounds exactly like it would help me.
OpenAI is big enough and this announcement interesting enough that it probably warrants being on the front page more than whatever opinionated brainfart of some self proclaimed AI expert (positive / negative) competing for the same space there. There's a lot of drivel getting upvoted lately that probably could be labeled as "opinionated drivel" and unceremoniously and aggressively filtered by our dearly beloved HN moderators and editors. But this isn't one of those things IMHO. And in fairness, there just is a lot of substantial day to day news as well.