Public AI awareness jumped straight from Ghibli images to existential doom
dbreunig · x · 2026-09-18
dbreunig jokes about the strange arc of public AI awareness: some people went straight from "there's a machine that can make Studio Ghibli pictures" to "there's a machine that might kill us all," with no awareness of anything in between.
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