From a random article I grabbed of his (https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/):

"it isn't clear whether generative AI actually provides much business value at all"

"cannot seem to find a product that people will pay for, in part because the results are so mediocre"

"Last week, we got our first real, definitive glimpse of what’s around that corner that future. And boy, was it underwhelming."

"OpenAI claims that o1 “performs similarly to PhD students on challenging benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry, and biology.” Just not in geography, it seems. Or basic elementary-level English language tests. Or math. Or programming. "

"Worse still, it's kind of hard to explain why anybody should give a shit about o1."

"o1 shows that OpenAI is both desperate and out of ideas."

"the software is not becoming more useful"

Honestly, every other line is quotable in this context.

Yep, he is a PR stunt guy, and the number of videos that come up when you type Ed Zitron into YouTube should tell you how many people are eager to feed their cognitive biases.

It’s comical and honestly incredibly embarrassing…

But it seems we have somehow optimized away shame. It wasn’t good for profits, I guess.