Am I the only one sick of the "early access" AI hype and cherry-picked demos?
- Published
- 09/03, 22:07
- First discovered
- 09/04, 17:00
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A Reddit user expresses frustration with the "early access" AI hype, specifically regarding OpenAI's Astra model. They criticize the PR strategy of providing access to a select few for "mind-blowing" videos and benchmarks, calling it "artificial hype" and "fake scarcity marketing." The user questions the realism and reliability of these "curated demos" and "carefully selected benchmarks," suggesting that if OpenAI is confident in Astra, they should release it publicly for real-world testing rather than hiding behind a "coming soon" label.
Everyone keeps sharing these "mind-blowing" videos and benchmarks for OpenAI's upcoming Astra model. I absolutely hate this PR strategy of giving access to a select few just to build artificial hype, and I don't find these curated demos realistic at all.If OpenAI is so confident that Astra is their next major leap, why not just release it to the public? How reliable are these carefully selected benchmarks anyway? If they really believe in the product, they should open it up so we can test its real-world limits and see where it actually fails, rather than hiding behind a "coming soon" label. Is anyone else tired of this fake scarcity marketing? Let us use it or stop teasing it.