I saw this earlier on their website and it said it was an 11m read. If it were an 11s read I'd have checked it out, but there is no way this nimrod has 11m worth of insightful writing to put down.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I started reading it and I thought I'd stop after ~200 words but I read the whole thing. I got sucked in by it's blatantness as a sickening PR piece for AI. The writer - I won't call him a "reporter" - clearly is going to parlay his NYT street cred into panegyric books about the wonders of AI that he hopes will be bestsellers. And I assume he wants to work for a AI firm and get nice, fat, juicy compensation package. I hope he fails at both but he might succeed.

[–] danisth@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s also more an indictment on realtors than it is praise of AI. Next time you’ll tell me AI is a competent landlord or health insurance broker.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

The other thing is that AI simply did what anybody motivated with a brain could do. It's not rocket science after all. But if you do it yourself - there's no loyal sycophant who never fails to tell you stuff like "You've started a localized gold rush!"