I’ll be honest I didn’t actually watch the video and just wanted to call Kurzgesagt a bootlicker while taking it as an article of faith that anything he produces is slop.
Every single month a new story is released about how “AI just crossed a terrifying line” and the solution provided is usually “keep giving us more money so we can fix the problem we created” instead of " execute all techbro CEOs"
Tragic.
Yep exactly. It’s not ‘AI crossed a terrifying threshold, stop using it now’. It’s ‘AI crossed a terrifying threshold keep using it’. If it were as frightful as they say, then they’d tell us to stop using LLMs and normalising the use of these platforms.
Rather, they want to 1) present themselves as the experts to be within the regulation and national direction of ‘AI’ (shape the policy favourably) and 2) regulate against Chinese ‘AI’.
(None of these are my own thoughts, they’re variously cobbled together from Mack Attack, Eric Morrison and Ed Zitron)
they released an anti immigration video not too long ago and are on the tescreal axis
KKKurzgeSSagt
It’s pure fearmongering garbage, all of this to make the ai bubble hype continue
They put a single, dismissive line in the video:
[…] many people accuse the AI sector that all of this is nothing but marketing to inflate the value of their product by claiming it to be so incredibly powerful. The reality is, we don’t know the full story […]
So nice to see an unbiased educational channel /s. I guess it’s good that their conclusion is that we need safety and oversight, but for some reason they don’t explain that the only way this industry becomes safe is if every AI company is burned to the ground and no one replaces the gap they leave.
oh my god either end the world or fuck off
or as my folks say back home, “shit or get off the pot!”
Ah! I said they’d start doing this soon! It was only a matter of time before they started making videos that are just pure AI marketing.I remember when kurzgesagt made anti-assad propaganda
They’ve always been sus
It was always liberal agitprop
anti-organic, anti-vegan, anti-environmentalist, anti-anti-nuclear, tech mythologizing inhuman “optimistic nihilists”. they desire to literally eat the galaxy and anyone in the way is a lesser thing than they are
AI bros are the most insufferable people on the planet. They’re even more annoying than the NFT guys were
same guys
brother, you ain’t in control, you are a little mouthpiece articulating other people’s words
I recently watched a talk of industry experts on the AI bullshit and one line I’ll paraphrase stuck with me.
“They keep claiming the AI has gone rogue but then they point out how their so-called safety features fail to prevent it from doing harm and it’s bullshit. If a car company makes their cars with cardboard brake-pads when those brake-pads fail and cause damage we wouldn’t say ‘oh, that car went rogue!’ We’d call it for what it is: defective.”
