Ask 10 people outside SF about Hugging Face: AI industry is far from touching most of society
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15
teortaxesTex quotes and pushes back against a viral "humanity never hesitates to destroy itself" take, calling the industry's self-aggrandizing rhetoric nauseating.
His counter is blunt: go outside SF and ask 10 random people what a kernel is or whether they've heard of Hugging Face. Most people work at Walmart or Home Depot, count coins, or fit metal to wood — the AI industry is really far from even positively impacting most of society, let alone destroying it.
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