cm2012 5 hours 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 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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AlexLiteplo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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