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Influencers are getting paid to promote ai for 10s of thousands of USD. This is one the reasons social media has been swamped with it lately.
by smrtinsert 5mo ago
Influencers are getting paid to promote ai for 10s of thousands of USD. This is one the reasons social media has been swamped with it lately.
- 1alprw 5mo agoYes, some of the latest campaigns: https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/ https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-p... Anthropic's own talking point guide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945021 There were earlier initiatives from the industry. This is just what is in the open and does not even include automated LLM "influencers".
- gofreddygo 5mo agoOMG ! I've been dealing with one such AI kool aid nut for 6 months now and I can trace a lot of they've done down to specific pointers from that anthropic "champion" playbook.
- bdelmas 5mo agoThis! I now have to fight bad tech decisions at my companies because many devs follow influencers. Look also at the hate spread against UE5… It’s everywhere and half of the arguments are falsehoods made by influencers with no real experience in the industry…