alt Hacker Newshot take: generative AI isn't an existential threat to humanity.
These companies are insolvent and these stories were designed to scare the public, and governments, into implementing regulations that designate these AI corporations the "responsible stewards" for this technology. The ultimate goal is to block competitors and open source alternatives.
They don't know how to make enough money pay their investors so they are resorting to trying to scare the public into submission.
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imovie4 • yesterday at 9:55 PM
Anthropic made an operating profit in the last two quarters!!
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jackb4040 • today at 6:00 PM
It will be a beautiful day months from now when this is no longer a "hot take" but just historical consensus
The existential threat is a general public panic. Then the use of that as an excuse for Martial law, with no intention of ending it, and that triggers the out sized response that ends, well, those countries and their populations from viability in the world economy for a decade or more.