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Have the comments here read the article? It's arguing that the CEOs themselves have spread the doomer narrative and are now being molotov'd as a result. The subject of the title is/includes Altman, hence the Altman cover photo. This was way way better than I expected of Gizmodo (bravo Gizmodo), warning us that execs are only toning down their AI dooming for self-protection.
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You serious? Ofcourse not - but they did see the letters "AI" in the title.
They should’ve chosen a lane. OpenAI was about free LLMs, then they went LLC and decided that AI could make money. It doesn’t make money though, so now we’re watching the idiots realize they have burned all this money investing it into AI.
All the experts told us it couldn’t do any of the things sci-fi writers love to write stories about. Nothing changed except perception, and with by directing perception they managed to use an old technology to temporarily buttress the economy.
Lol, I'm not sure what's worse. Using an LLM to summarize and article for you, or not even reading the article and assuming you know the contents by the title. Fucking people...
It's an understandable conclusion if you only read the title of the article. Surely an AI doomer is someone that thinks it's garbage, right?
But if people familiarize themselves with what professional AI doomers look like, and what AI safety groups look like, it becomes abundantly clear that they are all pro-industry. They will only ever criticize AI in ways that covertly praise it on its non-existent capacity.
I did. As well written as it is, I don't think the premise of "the REAL doomers were the CEOs!" is going to spread far enough to dethrone the present, much more popular understanding of what an AI doomer is. It didn't seem worth addressing. We'll see though; perhaps every time someone says "AI doomer" on Lemmy, some wag will reply with, "Um a-kually, I think you'll find the tech CEOs are the real doomers, LOL."
As to the the notion that the dangers these techbros have released are now coming home to roost: it's overstated. In my opinion, the techbros will continue not to give the merest shit about the harms they've caused, and one misguided soul with a molly isn't going to change that -- or bring back all the dead people LLMs contributed to killing. Will it increase the CEO's feelings of paranoia? My dude, the wealthy are already maximally paranoid.
interesting. I don't think the article is saying "the real doomers are the CEOs", though. what you've written in the second paragraph (and just that is incredibly interesting even if it doesn't have the impact you've outlined. it's incredibly Greek) is fully compatible with agreeing that AI is doomish. I'll also repeat my point that the article advises increased caution more than before of tech's claiming of great AI net benefits.
Completely fair, and I definitely agree with your point.