WSJ/NY Post anti-doomer media push undermined by Claude talking nonsense
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-20
- The author claims a coordinated "anti-doomer" media messaging push appeared in both WSJ and NY Post, countering wall-to-wall AI-doomer coverage.
- He endorses the message itself, but is disappointed the best example it could offer was Claude talking nonsense — a self-inflicted own goal.
- He also pushes back on the quoted line that AI "allows human decisions to quietly disappear from the story," asking "Does it now?"
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