It's not about that, he just will profit financially from pumping AI so he pumps AI, no need to go further.

I have the same feeling.

Everything Karphathy said, until his recent missteps, was received as gospel, both in the AI community and outside.

This influencer status is highly valuable, and I would not be surprised if he was approached to gently skew his discourse towards more optimism, a win-win situation ^^

This