Their "own" ideas? Let me remind you that OpenAI released a report purposefully suggesting that GPT4 has relatively high IQ, passes a lot of college-level tests, and solves coding problems. Then it was revealed that there was training data contamination that led to good results in such tests [1], but GPT4 marketing received 10000 more attention than truth anyway. The popular belief is that using LLMs will give you a professional competitive advantage. Also, when we talk about the achievements of LLMs, then we anthropomorphize, but when we talk about their failures, then we don't anthropomorphize, i.e., "AI cannot lie"? Don't you see human biases drive AI hype?
In my opinion, people clearly are confused and misled by marketing and this isn't the first time it's happening. For instance, people were confused for 40+ about global warming, among others due to greenwashing campaigns [2]. Is it ok to mislead in ads? Are we supposed to purposefully take advantage of others by keeping them confused to gain a competitive advantage?
The context is people who should know better, whose job it is to put the effort into understanding the tools they are using.
Of course, I think these AI tools should require a basic educational course on their behaviour and operation before they can be used. But marketing nonsense is standard with everything; people have at least some responsibility for self education.
In my opinion, people clearly are confused and misled by marketing and this isn't the first time it's happening. For instance, people were confused for 40+ about global warming, among others due to greenwashing campaigns [2]. Is it ok to mislead in ads? Are we supposed to purposefully take advantage of others by keeping them confused to gain a competitive advantage?
[1] https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Climate_Coalition