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@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works

2026-09-20 05:29 UTC

I’ve heard a few explanations for the “AI will kill us all” narrative. AI techies are in a cult. They genuinely believe this stuff because they’re crazy. It makes the AI sound powerful and impressive, which is ultimately good for the AI companies. They’re starting to face competition from open-weight models, so they want to scare politicians into crafting regulations. They think that they will be able to influence the regulations to favor them and squeeze out their competition. And, of course, there’s It keeps people talking about AI. Because whatever you do, don’t quit talking about AI, because if you quit talking about it, the line might go down! And the line going down is very, very bad.

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  • @Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 2026-09-20 05:42

    Okay cool, thanks! If the techies believe it and they are the “experts” what makes them crazy? Wouldn’t their opinion be the most informed? Yeah that part definitely makes sense That definitely makes sense from a capitalist perspective. But, is the argument against regulations that they would be bad for the concentration of power it would give select companies? Or just that they aren’t necessary because the tool is of little use so it’s just wasted time/money. That makes sense but trillions of dollars are being spent. Anything that amount of money is sinking into is gonna be talked about a lot. Especially thousands of jobs cut because of it.

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  • @Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-09-20 07:16

    i wonder the ones still have jobs is only in AI right now, and i know someone that relies on it heaivly and he was in tech.

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