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I think maybe the reason this didn't happen is that promises like the former are quickly verifiable as something it can't actually do, whereas promising to replace all labor *in the future* is a goalpost that's conveniently mobile. (Since, largely, the real customers are VCs etc, not people)

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social

I maintain that consumer AI products would have been received very differently if they were launched with promises like, "You can query this to sort through your inbox of 50,000 emails" rather than "What if artists starved in the streets? :)"

19/8/26, 9:49 pm4 reposts19 likes

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

@halfrobot.com

19 Aug

I don't see how anyone who knows this subject would ever trust a 1M token context window LLM to sort 50,000 emails even if the average length of the emails really was 10 words

Alexander King

@literallyaking.com

19 Aug

Especially funny example really, since email search itself has rapidly gotten worse as gmail increasingly overrides actual querying with its own stupid relevance heuristics. How I long to simply query 50,000 emails myself

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

@halfrobot.com

19 Aug

Creating your own mirror database of your own emails just to do a search occasionally