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People heavily invested in AI, obviously. We have an economy that's heavily driven by investor perception, and while "AI is taking jobs" sounds bad for workers or humanity as a whole, it can still be a sales pitch for investing in AI

I've seen three major pushers of this narrative. Well 3.5.

1) CEOs of AI and AI adjacent companies, like the Anthropic CEO quoted in the article, Sam Altman(till recently atleast), Perplexity CEO, Microsoft CEO etc. It brings them new VC money, investment, and customers who "don't want to miss out on this big trend".

1.5) Media heavily pushing the above CEOs quotes, probably just for clicks and engagement, brings them money. The angle pushed is that these CEOs would know the next trend, because they're developing better models in secret right now.

2) BlueSky appears to really hate on anything AI to the point of personal attacks, putting AI related tweeters on blocklists and bans etc. Maybe coz artists are overrepresented and AI is having a real or perceived effect on artists?

3) Reddit, especially the antiwork side

It looks like a neo-Luddite movement to me, but much like the original Luddites, it’s only and anti new technology movement because that’s been conflated with their real pain which is that the benefits of productivity have been sucked up by one group of people while they have to deal with all the inequities.

Why do you have to imply there's some conspiracy? Haven't you noticed productivity gains by incorporating AI to your workflow? If you have, then there's your answer: we point to that possibility because we are seeing everyday how much more we are accomplishing by using AI. If demand doesn't increase as much, then there will be a decrease in employment.

> Haven't you noticed productivity gains by incorporating AI to your workflow?

Has anyone? Other than anecdotes here and there?

In my experience with this question, whichever answer you want to find, you can find research useful in defending it.

* https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-research-is-there-into...

Please don't parody regional accents to imply stupidity.

Pretty confident it’s from South Park: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks

If I’m wrong I’ll accept that. If I’m right nope we learned a valuable lesson about making the worst assumptions about strangers in the internet.

I identified it as a South Park reference although the reference in question was parodying a country accent imo.

As someone who grew up in the country however, fuck em

Ah yes, South Park, a TV show known for its sensitivity towards difficult topics. Quoting someone else being douchy just means you're douchy and unoriginal, it doesn't make you not a douche simply because someone else said it and you're copying them. You're still choosing to say those things.

It’s a direct quote from an episode of South Park.

In the episode they aren’t making fun of a regional accent, they are making fun of an affected accent from certain classes. I’m from the area of Colorado where the episode takes place. There is no regional accent for Colorado.

From the perspective of the publications, it’s fear-mongering which makes clicks.

Out of control AI is a common sci-fi trope because it’s a convenient allegory for the uncaring systems that determine the quality or continuation of human life.

Of course, investors are loving this because there is no such thing as bad press.

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