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Commentators Anil Dash and Cory Doctorow criticized for AI hype

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Tech commentators Anil Dash and Cory Doctorow are criticized for promoting AI technologies without acknowledging their lack of true intelligence. The author argues that the tech sector, including prominent figures, readily accepts and promotes AI with exaggerated claims, suggesting an underlying insecurity or lack of genuine regard for intelligence within the industry. This promotion is seen as an insult to the public, particularly as large language models and systems like Claude are not genuinely intelligent. AI

IMPACT Critiques suggest that the tech industry's promotion of AI may stem from internal insecurities rather than genuine intelligence, potentially misleading the public.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of opinion pieces criticizing public figures' views on AI.

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Commentators Anil Dash and Cory Doctorow criticized for AI hype

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Why has the # technology sector and the elite # programming set and all the camp-followers and fellow travelers like Cory Doctorow and Anil Dash been so easily

    Why has the # technology sector and the elite # programming set and all the camp-followers and fellow travelers like Cory Doctorow and Anil Dash been so easily snowed by lies, so long as the lies are decorated with the two letters # AI ? That's a complicated question to end a thr…

    LINKS me.dm/@anildash
  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The mere fact that Dash and Doctorow and who knows how many other Z-grade # tech bloggers and # investment enthusiasts keep blithering about # AI without even B

    The mere fact that Dash and Doctorow and who knows how many other Z-grade # tech bloggers and # investment enthusiasts keep blithering about # AI without even BOTHERING to notice that the # LLM and # Claude and all the rest of these things are not intelligent , nor sold for the p…

    LINKS me.dm/@anildash

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