alt Hacker NewsWas ChatGPT hyped?
It took off rapidly but that was hardly because of any hyping and almost entirely due to word of mouth and people actually liking the product, until the press picked up on it.
From what I remember they still had an invite process when they were getting popular and the demand clearly overwhelmed their servers several times, indicating a much bigger response than they expected. If anything I think OpenAI was downplaying the product at the time.
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> It took off rapidly but that was hardly because of any hyping and almost entirely due to word of mouth and people actually liking the product, until the press picked up on it.
Not my experience. A whole lot of breathless mentions in media, LinkedIn, and especially top-down company emails. Far fewer cases of people actually liking/using it.
ChatGPT is one of the most hyped tech products ever. We’ve had nearly 4 years of hype. From claims of AGI to claims we need UBI because of the ways it will devastate the work force.
It was claimed that ChatGPT was sentient and AGI lol
Some people lost their minds over the popular sentiment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
Yes, that is what hype is. It was organic hype, and is frankly the only real way to do it otherwise you get backlash.
OpenAI were completely taken by surprise by the success of ChatGPT. Internally there were debates over whether they should launch it at all.
It's had a ton of hype since then of course.