2) they look at the output in a field or area where they have zero experience and say "wow! that's impressive!" when they have no way of knowing whether it's impressive because they don't work in that field. i can put Python prompts into ChatGPT and get what look to me like incredible results, but it's silly to people who do code for a living. or i just heard a snippet of a podcast that Spotify auto-translated into Spanish. the journalists were like "sounds great!" folks, it was nonsense.