Influencers are getting paid to promote ai for 10s of thousands of USD. This is one the reasons social media has been swamped with it lately.
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-p...
Anthropic's own talking point guide:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945021
There were earlier initiatives from the industry. This is just what is in the open and does not even include automated LLM "influencers".
Look also at the hate spread against UE5… It’s everywhere and half of the arguments are falsehoods made by influencers with no real experience in the industry…