There was a huge back-and-forth about comments by Yann LeCun that the OpenAI work was just a public-facing stunt and No Big Deal [1]. Suffice to say, there was some dissent about Yann's assessment (comparisons to "less space than a nomad, lame", etc.)
Semi-related, various comments from web-watchers [e.g., 2] about the possibility for these chatbots to replace google search (e.g., redirects to stack overflow could be answered by a code chatbot).
Given the context, it's interesting.
[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-is-not-particularly-in...
[2] http://scripting.com/2023/01/23.html#a150251
