They are very real and not because we want "cool toys". If OpenAI, Antropic disappeared from earth, I would not mind. They can take Thiel, Karp, Musk and the rest of that class with them, as far as I am concerned. They are the biggest threat to democracy and well being of the rest of us, not ai.

And yes, their argument is that they need to amass as much money as possible right now, to proceed as fast as possible with creation of the doom machine and somehow we should trust them. Meanwhile, as they talk about immanent permanent underclass and 80% unemployment and blame AI for their own negligence ... they dont care one bit about harms related to their data centers, corruption they facilitate in government, surveillance they facilitate.

There was no positive intention in "warning about all artists being obsolete and movies being made by Sora only". It was pure bullshit of someone who dont care about artists, but wants to sell slop machine right now. (or seemingly hate them along with all creators for some reasons)

Like, common. It was never good faith. And if it was, their idea of harm is "AIG will take over the world" which completely ignores actual harm to people, social structures and environments they themselves are cause in the process of trying to create AIG capable to take over the world.