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1. bko · 1790168561 · 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. skybrian · 1790172754 · focus · HN ↗

      It’s being jammed into products where it’s not wanted. I use AI every day with good results, but I do not want it in my browser, my OS, my text editor, or AI summaries in my search engine. I want it in a separate web app where I can use it or not.

      So am I pro- or anti- AI? Both. It depends what it is.

      1. Melatonic · 1790183109 · focus · HN ↗

         You don't want AI in that PDF you're trying to sign?! I cannot imagine

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