AI circle clashes over deepfates death threat drama as critic calls community reaction overblown
ryunuck · x · 2026-10-15
The AI community is in turmoil over the deepfates death threat incident, and user ryunuck posted a long takedown of everyone's reaction.
His take:
- Everyone walking on eggshells and agonizing over whether to name the person is treating this as far more serious than it is
- His read is blunt: you pissed someone off, someone blew up in your face — "recalibrate and move on," it's not a big deal or a story
- The real problem, he argues, is that the community turned this into "death threats gossip" instead of admitting "right now we are a failure and a fuckup"
- He accuses the party involved of manufacturing an artificial eggshells situation while knowing deepfates' actions would make him look like the standup guy
A quintessential slice of AI-circle drama and community-culture debate over how threats within the scene should be handled.
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