Comment by thegrim000

You know, there's a number of different competing propaganda battles going on:

1) There's the people and companies that stand to make money and build up companies by convincing people to buy their ai projects, hyping up ai, etc.

2) There's companies and nation states trying to destroy competitor's / other country's ai efforts, turn citizens against them, in order to gain an advantage/lead in the race.

3) There's, conversely, nation states that want to boost up and promote their ai industry in order to win the race rather than other countries winning (assuming there's a "win" at the end, like AGI, which I don't believe there is).

4) Normal citizens that have been ideologically brainwashed one way or the other, and so are going online to argue in a culture war for their beliefs / "side".

5) People posting crazy takes on ai, one way or the other, to get clicks / money on their articles.

The whole topic is awash in serious propaganda. Effectively the only path forward is believing what you yourself know for sure, from your direct experience / knowledge.