But in the sense that so many people readily accept the claims made by serial liars and con men like Altman and Musk

Musk's SpaceX launches more satellites and recovers more rockets than the entire rest of the world combined by a gigantic margin. Musk's Tesla is the only new American auto manufacturer to rise to having a best selling car model in over 100 years. Even the slightest realistic look at what Altman and OpenAI have done would show a similar level of actual production with billions of dollars a month of repeat customers.

Where the firetruck do you and so many others come off casually slandering Musk and Altman as con men? Aren't con men people who promise to do things, but can't and don't and instead run off with your money? What the everlasting hockeypuck are people who slander these guys as con men actually on about? Does your license to be full of shortcake extend to lying to yourself and others about what is actually going on out in the open where anybody who was even vaguely concerned with reality can see it?

I think the "AI" companies have relieved many people of thinking. So there's that much of a success already!

If they do nothing else, the AI companies have already revolutionized the production of computer code. A trillion dollar business ineradicably changed, made more productive. You are either walking around and looking at the stuff in front of you, in which case you can see that, or you are in some kind of ideological trance where you will pretend some shared illusion is actually reality and with a straight face deny the nose on your face.

AI may not eliminate the need for money to keep track of how much stuff we are each allowed, but it isn't even vaguely close to nothing. Not in real life. Not if you can't get those damn ideological blinders off when you are trying to determine whether what you are looking at is your donkey or a hole in the ground.

If anybody can give me some insight into what the rucksack they mean by "conmen" when using it to characterize Musk and Altman, I would be forever grateful.

R:)