> Being totally burned out on AI hype myself, I'm somewhat sympathetic towards the folks that are still thinking of this as just another example of that.

I mean, it was also that it was marketed in the media as a security apocalypse and unpatched servers would be falling within 15 minutes after the patch got released. This didn't happen. And that definitely warranted skepticism. There's been MUCH more severe vulnerabilities in the past that just went by without OpenAI's marketing making everyone go crazy about it.

Also, almost all information about it was dressed up in slop. Because OpenAI didn't want us to forget that AI was involved, somehow.