Journalist mocks AI industry for branding its product the 'mass-layoffs-worst-case-extinction machine'
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-08-24
Journalist Tyler Harper explains his reflexive skepticism of AI industry claims: the very people hailed as geniuses failed to anticipate that branding their box as the Best-Case-Mass-Layoffs-Worst-Case-Extinction Machine was a non-savvy PR move. Nathanpm Young quips that the journalist can only see communication as comms.
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