Most lay people I know haven't really attached to those stories. Most people still don't even know that Bing has chat with it.

The crazy thing is that the conversations that these LLMs is having is largely like the conversations from AIs in movies. We literally just built science fiction and some folks in the tech press are complaining that they get some facts wrong. This is like building a teleportation machine and finding out that it sometimes takes you to the wrong location. Sure, that can suck, but still -- it's a teleportation machine.

If it was 99.999% incredibly useful, the vast majority of stories would still be about the glaring failures. You can't draw any conclusions at all from that.

"I used GPT and it worked fine" isn't a compelling headline or social media post. If you look at Newegg reviews for Hard Drives you'd draw the conclusion that HDD's have a 40% failure rate over 6 months. But that's because almost no one returns to write a review about a functioning hdd, yet almost everyone writes a review when one fails

I don't think the media screaming about it will have any effect other than maybe convincing people to try it. At that point they'll decide for themselves if it's something they want to continue using.