Thanks for the great article, Pau! You did a good job collecting some examples of the misinformation, social posts, and poor research around AI, and the thoughtful exploration of its ethical and environmental implications.

However, I do want to challenge the bold promise you made in the title—"bursting the AI hype bubble once and for all"—because I don't feel that the article fully delivered on that promise. It just feels as bad as AI hype, just the opposite. While you highlighted some important flaws and examples of overhyped claims, you did not visit the topic of whether under that hype there are valuable things AI brings to the table or not, which makes the argument feel incomplete and far from bursting anything. Just cherry-picking some worst examples of how today's information landscape works in general, not for AI only.

You also mentioned the importance of double and triple-checking information. I agree with this in theory, but for most people, it isn't practical or worth the effort, especially when the tangible return isn't obvious. In contrast, hype often brings immediate rewards in attention or excitement. This is actually where I see the potential for AI models like ChatGPT—they can help assist with fact-checking and verifying information more efficiently. While it's not perfect yet, it’s getting there and becoming more useful.I hoped for AI to help with this at least since 2014. And it can.I even made a small prototype that is far from perfect but shows what is possiblehttps://chatgpt.com/g/g-ES4r8YPEM-can-i-trust-this

Do you see the potential for AI to support this kind of research and fact-checking? Is it really all hype, or are there areas where it’s already proving beneficial and could grow even more valuable?I honestly see that we are in .com bubble 2.0. People overhype and waste money on things that will not work, largely coping with the new reality reshaped by AI. But like with pets.com, selling pet food online is an available business if done in a viable way. There are viable ways to use AI and it will change the world like .com bubble did. Just our human nature of five stages of grief and the Gartner hype cycle makes fools of us as usual.