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cm2012 | 16 days ago

Tech press learned it gets a lot more clicks being anti-tech than being accurate. There is a big anti AI or anything related to it zeitgeist.

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jaredcwhite|16 days ago

What? If anything the tech press is overwhelmingly sycophantic towards both startups and Big Tech alike, often just passing along talking points verbatim without any critical analysis at all.

Also, being "anti-AI" isn't being "anti-tech". AI is a marketing buzzword.

RankingMember|16 days ago

For sure- I haven't forgotten just how thoroughly deified the likes of Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, and Sam Bankman-Fried were in the tech press at one point.

AlexLiteplo|16 days ago

Yeah whenever there's a cultural moment in tech that could be spun in one way or the other they go doomer