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Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us all

karlbode.comAI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of ControlThe press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

17 Sept

the tech press coverage of this guy was a hot mess didn't specify he doesn't really have the expertise or experience to make doomsday predictions didn't provide any actual evidence of a mass-extinction event didn't ask him if he voted for the corrupt sociopath gutting our cybersecurity defenses

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

just endless sensationalized hyperbolic clickbait headlines candidly informing the public they're all about to die at the hands of auto-evolving swarms of sentient software, despite there's simply no evidence any of this is actually true and the whistleblowers provided no actual evidence

17/9/26, 1:43 pm13 reposts76 likes

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

17 Sept

I think the entirety of the U.S. corporate press needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with perhaps some Krispy Kremes and a few new roller rinks until we can figure out how to rebuild a media that actually serves the public interest

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If it helps to get rid of Trump then I see no issue sensationalizing it.

Radical RenaisSans

@snarkypants.bsky.social

17 Sept

AI itself explains that it's a glorified text prediction algorithm similar to that on a phone keyboard, so this guy is either delusional or is pumping some stocks.

InfinitelyLoopy

@infinitelyloopy.bsky.social

17 Sept

Which is really harmful because it will end up discrediting those who do know of actual risks (almost certainly not existential but maybe material) somewhere down the line. ‘Climate alarmism’ dismissals of CC is a direct result of this kind of behavior (media hypes worst outcome as inevitable).