Post #1402399 · Elektrine

@Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2026-04-19 01:02 UTC

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. Whatever happens, it feels like the AI executives have painted themselves into a corner. They’ve told everyone their product has the potential to destroy everything. They were the doomers, if we want to call it that, at least when it was convenient. And now we seem to be entering a different era where the same people who told us about the dangers of AI try to get us to look exclusively at what they claim are enormous benefits for society; so far, with little to show. @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works @Sundray@lemmus.org

Replies (6)

@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 01:11

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…

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@EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 01:29

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.

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@sundray@lemmus.org 2026-04-19 01:47

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.

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@XLE@piefed.social 2026-04-19 04:32

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.

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@Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2026-04-19 06:51

Have the comments here read the article? You serious? Ofcourse not - but they did see the letters “AI” in the title.

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@willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-20 02:06

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 CEOs were talking to investors. They didn’t used to care if the proles overheard all that radical signaling intended for investors. I guess now they have a reason to care.

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