HACKER Q&A
📣 sonicmusic

Is AI Twitter contributing to a bubble of mediocrity in the industry?


I am currently engaged in an AI-related project and I find it rather amusing to observe the quality of AI-related posts I come across on Twitter (X) these days. I do follow industry leaders & interesting projects as I am eager to read their thoughts, opinions, and updates.

However, lately, Twitter has been suggesting an overwhelming amount of mediocre content to me (yes, many of these individuals have a blue checkmark).

The recent news in the AI industry seems to be the pinnacle of their “insights”, followed by AI threads such as "Make money with AI" or "Why use ChatGPT when you can use x for free," “Top x tools to unlock your x”, and so on.

There are thousands of accounts regurgitating the same content over and over again. You can find the same people on LinkedIn as well. It feels like being trapped in a vicious bubble, and I am exhausted from constantly muting such individuals.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

  👤 meheleventyone Accepted Answer ✓
There's basically a cluster of tech-adjacent grifters who move from fad to fad trying to get rich quick all following the same playbook from more popular tech-adjacent grifters. They all moved from 'web3' to AI following the current trend.
👤 rsynnott
Yeah, the crypto-scammers/get-rich-quick crowd, who’ve actually had a brief dalliance with AI before (remember there was a weird 6 months around 2015 when no VC would talk to you unless you were pretending to make a chatbot?), have embraced it _in force_.

You might find Mastodon or something better (honestly, I’ve carefully avoided each of the 3-4 AI bubbles that have shown up during my career, so am not paying attention to AI Mastodon, but technical content in areas I do know well is generally far better on Mastodon, and largely free of the get rich quick tendency).

Alternatively, this is one base where one of those “block the blue” extensions may be helpful; it’s probably one of the subjects on which the blueticks are at their most vapid.