me shouting down every other panelist on Squawk Box: "You don't understand. My blog is REAL! It's real. you have to ADMIT it's real. You can sign up for my patreon right now, and give me actual dollars. It's REAL guys. It's just not SERIOUS to suggest that my blog IS NOT REAL"
on the very last page (16) there's an article about TSMC's chip technology, but that doesn't count, because it's technology for making AI chips
sam altman rocking back and forth, muttering to himself "chatgpt is real, and he is strong, and he is my friend"
now I'm trying to find where critics say "the technology isn't real" but it's all still just boosters doing fake nuance, just negated. "not because the technology isn't real"
like… LLMs… do… exist. they do stuff. interesting and confounding stuff and stuff worthy of research, if not, in my opinion, net-utility useful stuff. machine learning and previous iterations of "AI" are unambiguously useful in various contexts. I never hear skeptics saying that transformers or neural networks or whatever "aren't real". and yet the industry doth protest WAY too much.
I swear I issued this query because I was getting annoyed at hearing boosters say this so often and was trying to find a precedent for someone using this phrase to describe literally anything else. on page 9 of the google results I found a tiktok about breeder reactors.