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Why is it so hard to believe that the AI worries are genuine?

1 points by meep_meep_meep ↗ HN
I use to have a strong belief that it was all hype but the Hugging Face Attack made me reconsider all my priors. Also given that these companies are trying to go public doing this for hype would be a borderline insane braindead move. The backlash it's already generating is going to be like nothing the industry has seen before. Not a great move if you want to go public.

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afzalive
Because they're coming from people who are quite detached from reality in other aspects of life and they have been affiliated with people who have rug-pulled as a tactic in in the past (like Uber and Airbnb).

The concerns could be real but these AI CEOs are simply trying to capture the mindshare of the solution IMHO.

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nfujd7
They are genuine just like hurricane warnings are genuine. But filtering out attention economy amplification layer and nonsense you land on a simple truth - no one controls weather systems yet the chimp troupe has survived them for thousands of years. The hurricane is already out of the box.
toasty228
We don't know what they know, I'm not even sure they know what they think they know. What I know though is that they've been lying, personally and as an industry, forever. Fables like "The boy who cried wolf" are classics for a reason.
FrankWilhoit
They've never told the truth before, why start now?