Comment by Aurornis
4 days ago
Everyone is so afraid of being left behind in this period of rapid AI change. The influencers are exploiting that to create anxiety and fear of missing trends.
I follow several influencers from pre-AI times who were (or were trying to become) social influencers thought leader types. People like Theo or many of the JavaScript and training course people. Following them was helpful to follow the trends that more chronically online juniors would be picking up and pushing at the workplace, which set me up in a better position to understand and then defend against it.
All of them, every single one, have dropped their previous influencer topic and pivoted to being AI influencer. Every time I see a post they’re either saying you need to adopt a new trend or that last month’s trend is dead. “Prompting is dead! Graphs are the future!” or “Claude Code is OVER! This new harness is 10X better”
MCP was one of these topics. Everyone went from telling you that you needed to use MCP or be left behind, to declaring that MCP was dead almost in unison.
The only pro-MCP holdouts were the influencers who had built their own MCP courses for sale.
It kind of repulses me when these people will make a video about anti-AI sentiment and splice in an ad for an AI tool at the halfway mark.
Do content creators have a lot of say over what advertising gets spliced in to their creation?
Spliced in likely refers to ads they splice into their own videos, which they control completely. The platform ads are separate from the video and the creators do not have control over what is shown.
Yes. I'm talking about the sponsored segment where the creator reads ad copy of whoever's sponsoring that episode that day.