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AI was supposed to win people over by now – it hasn't

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> “I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies, including Anthropic, is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world. That is totally on us,” he noted.

I'm not so sure how big of an effect that had. I don't think most people believed any of those promised to begin with, so not delivering on them isn't the major problem.

I think the big problem is that the major impacts the technology has had for ordinary people have been negative ones, and there isn't any clear reason to think that's going to change anytime soon. And I don't think that's a problem that messaging can fix.

“We’re going to eliminate half of white collar jobs” is a pretty terrible sales pitch.

Sure, it gets investors all hot and bothered but for some odd reason, the average person isn’t quite as excited by the same pitch.

What's not to love about a flawed and unreliable technology that aims to kill jobs?

You forgot - it also aims to consume lots of power and water and hardware to keep it from others. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

… while concentrating immensely more wealth and power in the hands of a few weird and depraved people.

and people! (autonomous drones)

Same thing can be said about other versions of early tech; internet services were horribly unreliable and out to kill travel agent and others jobs

Oh right I am sorry... forgot this is HN... you meant to express concern about your job replacing

My bad

You mean that technology that resulted in a massive bubble, wasn't marketed as replacing all labor and giving the rich personal slaves? You mean the technology that enables human communication and creativity instead of promoting human isolation and stealing human creativity?

SaaS was a massive bubble fueled by ZIRP, avarice of politicians, killed jobs, and stuck people in front of screens instead of socializing.

iPhone apps have people staring at their screens.

The endless production of gpus, laptop, phone, racks of Rpis have contributed to climate change which may very well doom the species

But yeah go off about those things only becoming an issue once they impacted you

How very "fuck gay people... what? oh my niece is gay? Gay people are fine!" of you.

2025 AI CEOs: "AI is gonna wipe your puny little job off the map and you better adapt or die, bitch."

2026: "OwO I'm just a wittle guy, why does everyone hate me? Trump come save us from the open models"

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