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GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.
pointed out, it was Mollick and other staunchly pro-AI partisans like Tyler Cowen who got early access to GPT-5, not journalists or reviewers at major media outlets—a move that, in hindsight, reflects both an insecurity at OpenAI about the quality of its product, and its knowledge that loyal and widely followed commentators will champion its wares full-throatedly and mostly uncritically. It arrives as organizations like BNY, California State University, Figma, Intercom, Lowe’s, Morgan Stanley, SoftBank, T-Mobile, and more have already armed their workforces with AI— 5 million paid users now use ChatGPT business products—and begun to reimagine their operations on the API… If we wake up to millions of addicted and deluded AI chatbot users, students incapable of finishing their homework without help from an app, and automation software that surveils and immiserates workers, each hurriedly installed on the top layer of our society, well, the joke will have been on all of us.
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