no mention of how the affluent, surveillance-obsessed exec dictating its trajectory enthusiastically cozied up to fascists

There are so many surveillance-obsessed AI CEOs that this one wasn’t in my top two guesses. Excellent reminder, Techdirt.

Stories like this Times piece will often fixate on the AI “doomer narrative” (SkyNet will kill us all), but downplay that this specific strain of doomerism (very often pushed by wealthy industry insiders), often exists to both misrepresent what LLMs are capable of, but also to direct attention away from more realism-based criticism the industry doesn’t really want to talk about.

The amount of attention the pro-business doom narrative gets, is fundamentally at odds with this realism, because the reality is that LLMs aren’t all that great.