The AI releases hype cycle in a nutshell

This might look like a shitpost but beyond the meme lies the truth. Pay attention to my point: every new AI feature announcement now follows the exact same script: Week one: is pure exuberance ( VEO 3 generating two elderly men speaking in Portuguese at the top of Everest, nano banana editing images so convincingly that ppl talk about photoshop's death, GPT-5.4 picking up on subtle context. Then week two hits. The model starts answering nonsense stuffed with em dashes, videos turn into surrealist art that ignores the prompt, etc.