AI overload! Are we overhyping the AI revolution on Product Hunt?

Michael Vandi
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Let's address the elephant in the room. Every day, as I scroll through the latest products on Product Hunt, I notice a recurring theme and I know you do too: AI. From chatbots to content generators, AI-driven analytics to automated marketing & sales agents, it seems like every other product boasts AI capabilities. Some deliberately add AI to anything. Are we in the midst of an AI overload? Don't get me wrong; the advancements in AI are nothing short of revolutionary. The potential to automate tasks, gain insights, and even mimic human-like interactions is genuinely groundbreaking. But to the extent of full-on autonomous AI agents completing end-to-end tasks, we are at least 3 years away. But with the influx of AI-tagged products, I fear we are diluting the true essence of what AI can offer in the future. Or worse, we are setting unrealistic expectations for users who might be expecting too much from the "AI" label. Just because a product calls https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions doesn't mean it's going to solve all the world's problems. Expect janky, frail initial execution. That's the price you pay as an early adopter. But also think of future capabilities. By overhyping AI capabilities now we are setting it up for failure in the future, similar to the story of the boy who cried wolf. Let's have an open discussion about the AI landscape here. Are we genuinely witnessing a transformative era, or are we getting caught up in the AI hype?

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Jijo John
SocialSignal AI
SocialSignal AI
No we are not. We have launched an AI product which does really help you in your day to day work. Please do upvote - producthunt.com/posts/textcraft-ai
Developer X
it becomes AI trash. or, API based AI usage!