Opinion: The anti-AI crowd wins by narrative, casting tech as the villain
wordgrammer · x · 2026-08-22
The author argues AI practitioners are seen as "villains" not because of what they did, but because their critics — YouTube essayists, indie artists, TikTok thinkpieces — deliberately crafted a story where AI companies are the bad guys and they are heroic underdogs. The anti-AI crowd "aggressively recruited the best storytellers"; the real issue isn't jobs, electricity, or water, but that the power of narrative has been turned against tech.
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