good at getting their anti-AI message out, and that's supposedly the ONLY reason everyone isn't as thrilled with AI as the proponents are.
So OpenAI bought a podcast about a month ago. And Peter Thiel is launching a site designed to let the wealthy smear the reputations of journalists and news outlets by paying to have a "jury" of AI models investigate and judge whether the reporting was accurate.
Of course the falsely named Chamber of Progress has been active with its pro-corporate propaganda for years.
But what you encountered recently shows they're really ramping up the propaganda.
One huge problem the AI peddlers are running into is that it never occurred to them that when they trained AI by ripping off the intellectual property of writers, visual artists, filmmakers and actors, they were stealing from and threatening to replace the very people who are most effective at messaging. AI proponents have since tried attacking those creatives by accusing them of being elitist "gatekeepers" who are trying to interfere with AI "democratizing" creativity by making all the people who hadn't bothered to learn how to do something instantly creative.
The UK's Labour government, pressured by AI companies who should NOT have had so much influence there, stupidly proposed letting AI companies take all the copyrighted work they wanted to train AI, with those whose work was stolen having the option of asking the companies to remove their work from training data later - if they could figure out who'd stolen it when the companies don't want to divulge what's in their training data. But when the asinine proposal got the required public consult, about 95% of the people who responded were against it (and it didn't help that the AI companies had said it would be too inconvenient for them to respond to creatives and remove their work), so the Labour government had to drop it.
Another demographic that's good at communication is teachers, and along with creatives they were the first large demographic to raise the alarm about how harmful genAI is. The AI companies have tried desperately to win them over or force them to accept AI by peddling AI to administrators (often as a way to eventually get rid of human teachers). I've met a few teachers who were turned into shills for the AI industry, but the vast majority of teachers I've encountered hate AI and think it's hurting students and destroying education.
And then there are the technical experts who know genAI will always hallucinate, and the business experts who know this is another hype-based bubble, and the environmental experts who can explain what AI costs us there.
This is a debate the AI industry can't win on the facts. So they're peddling lies and doing all they can to buy social and political influence. And whining about the backlash.
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