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OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

221 points · 209 comments · cdrnsf

  1. bko · · focus · HN ↗
    I love the hyperbolic language.

    "enlisting an influencer army"

    put 'good for the world' in quotes because obviously it's not

    A more neutral headline would be: OpenAI Is Enlisting Influencers to Promote Its Public Image.

    The rest of the article reads like anti-AI slop. For instance:

    > The company isn't asking influencers to assuage fears that a rogue AI could destroy humanity.

    It is weird how prominent anti-AI sentiment is online and in media. It's by far the most popular and fastest growing technology in the world. So presumably people have a general favorable impression of the technology as they're engaging with the product and many are paying for it. And I don't buy that it's being jammed down the throats by most employers. Sometimes maybe, but I see the reverse, where people WANT to use frontier models and are being prevented through archaic security hoops.

    The big question is who is funding the influencer army to gaslight people into thinking AI/data centers will somehow end the world?

    1. buellerbueller · · focus · HN ↗
      I have to use it at work; it is helpful; i don't like it.

      It's a red queens race: not only for the building of "true" AGI, but also for us plebes. If we don't use it, we will be surpassed by plebes who do. None of us agreed to any level of this arrangement, but all will be profoundly impacted.

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