Comment by Gigachad
16 hours ago
The general public is not their customer base, they don't have nearly enough money to spend on AI. Going to the media and saying "this product can automate so many jobs" is marketing to other businesses who want to use it to cut their workers out.
There was crazy clip of Eric from Google telling a crowd of university students that in the future AI will do everything, and after the whole audience boos him he keeps pushing the point that they better accept it and get on board. The mentality these guys have is sickening. They have no humility and no humanity.
The general public may not be their customer base (except maybe for ChatGPT, which is primarily a consumer app), but it is the voter base. The AI backlash has been brewing for a while and is bubbling over in the form of data-center pushbacks, and talk about regulation has been picking up. Plus, if "AI destroys the world" does happen, even the capitalists looking to further cut out labor will not be too happy about that.
Even if this was not covered in Marketing 101, it was all pretty predictable. Sure, most of these CEBrOs probably have a god complex (probably fueled by Ketamine) but their behavior is also consistent with the premise that they see a job apocalypse coming and they must warn the world about it.
Especially never liked Eric Schmidt, and he went about it very ham-handedly, but I do think he is right. Stopping is not an option given Capitalism's hunger for growth and the current geopolitical landscape. The genie is out of the bottle and we must adapt, because Capitalism is not going to.