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The doom talk gives AI user base a hard-on and Anthropic knows it. It's like saying, your web browser is now equipped with the power of plutonium. You are controlling something powerful and dangerous as you work to nudify your neighbor or slop out of your term paper.
we absolutely need to separate people who LARP AI safety and people who sincerely care about AI safety. there are absolutely a ton of people who doom talk AI as a way to hype it, or as a way to regulatory capture to secure their position. what they do is in some sense poisoning the well cause now when people who really care about AI safety talk about existential risks, they get lumped together with the disingenuous LARPers and dismissed.
listen to what they advocate. do they really want to stop all AI development, or just a so-called "slow-down"? do they want to ban all AI models, or just the "open-source"/"Chinese" ones?
One easy way is if they work for an Ai company or stand to make money in any way from an AI company they are absolutely full of shit.
At this point, there's so much bullshit from both sides on this issue that I don't trust any of them.