Ex-Cohere researcher mocks AI doomer and savior narratives as $99.99/month sales pitches
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-29
AI researcher Su Sheng (@suchenzang) delivers a satirical takedown of today's AI industry rhetoric: recurring-revenue shareholder talk, doomsday narratives about social unrest and human extinction, and savior stories about self-improving models curing cancer via math problems. The punchline is that all these grand narratives funnel toward the same action — paying $99.99 a month so the right people get the right recurring revenue. The post mockingly concludes: "ACT NOW! BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!"
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