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

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daveguy · 1790169823 · focus · HN ↗
I'm going to guess part of the influence campaign is getting stories like this removed from the front page of HN as quickly as possible:
<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/" rel="nofollow">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-...
eg:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814211">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814211
Not even flagged, just disappeared.
1. dwroberts · 1790172533 · focus · HN ↗
  I think it’s more that YC is so heavily invested in AI-related stuff it cannot then have a message board affiliated with it that has anti-AI content on it. Maybe it has always been like this for anything YC had its fingers in and it was just less obvious?
  1. dwroberts · 1790189307 · focus · HN ↗
    Getting downvoted for this is insane, do people really not think there can't be a conflict of interest between what YC does and what is allowed to appear on this site?

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