The oddest sales pitch: 'My tech will destroy the world, so buy all you can'
pmddomingos · x · 2026-08-24
Pedro Dominguez satirizes a strange phenomenon in the current AI industry: using the fear that 'my technology will destroy the world' as a selling point to induce customers to buy. This reflects a sector culture where some practitioners leverage doomerism for marketing.
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