Moltbook is proof that GenAI was a scam
It’s been more than 10 years since the dawn of generative AI, and all we have to show for it, our magnum opus, is a bunch of token generators mimicking humans and having nonsensical “conversations” on a primitive, outdated UI.
You’d have thought that GenAI would replace engineers and doctors by now, but no. All we have are sycophantic, hallucinating chatbots which are also degrading in quality as their producers try to cut inference costs.
Crazy that some people still have faith in this “revolution,” which in reality is the biggest scam in all of tech history. Enjoy worse models as model providers gaslight you by increasing the version number.
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Your opinion is in the minority here now because many of us have overwhelmingly positive experience with agents
Moltbook is not the proof you are looking for. I agree it's dumb af, but it's a novelty in a hype cycle. We won't be talking about it in a few months
You won't find proof because there is not enough research and the field is evolving faster than the research on outcomes paper pipeline can process.
But I agree that the pace of the postings is a little much.
Trust me, it has replaced software engineers in many places. I don't hear anyone hiring junior software engineers around me
MacDonald's is always trying "new" things intermittently in different markets. Removal from one market doesn't equal failure or permanence.
Most of the failures are a direct result of people intentionally trying to make it fail. Ordering a gazillion big macs and then replacing a third of them with egg mcmuffins is hardly something people would normally wish to do. Discoveries, like its inability to work with fractional food orders, are total nonsense since literally nobody orders food that way, unless they're trying to get lulz for their social accounts.
Did you forget about graphics? Did you forget about music? Did you forget about code? Did you forget about home automation? Did you forget about translations? Did you forget about proofreading? Did you forget about summarization? Did you forget about data aggregation and analysis? Did you forget about industrial robots? Etc.
Your conclusion is so cherry picked it is meaningless.