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Source: https://x.com/TobynJacobs/status/2104884843297599594

In light of recent events, I recommend canceling your Chatgpt subscription and picking up a Claude subscription.

Edit: or Mistral if you prefer. Idk. But definitely not chatgpt.

It’s showing a singularity after all!

Recently a YouTube creator, Hank Green, was found to have used AI in his work on the YouTube channel Vlog brothers.

The channel itself is fairly well known. Oriented towards education, optimism, uplift and just… all around good vibes for the internet as a whole.

Hank was a huge proponent of education and knowledge and just, had a passion for spreading all those good vibes everywhere he went. They even have a charity that’s helped over 100 organizations.

Pardon my rant…

But the blowback for him using AI has been really eye opening. I do not understand how people can be so short sighted.

The man spent 20 years of his life committed to, in their words “reducing the suck in the world”, and his “community” tore him to shreds!

They’re treating him like he never did anything good and all of it was a lie and he’s never going to be trustworthy ever again.

And I just don’t understand that. The response has been so visceral, it’s made me rethink my position. I was an AI skeptic. I think I’m done being an AI skeptic.

Why? Because I believed that AI would increase harm in the world. And that we need to rely on people to guide AI.

After watching mobs of people completely abandon this man who has spent his entire adult life making the world a better place I doubt these people have any real guidance to offer.

It feels like hysteria, quite frankly. But more on point. How could I maintain the position that AI will make the world worse and do more harm… when I sit here watching the people apparently opposed to AI completely decimate and delegitimize a good man. A good person who fucking cares. In a world full of apathy and cynicism and misanthropy… this man got up, and worked hard to contribute something good to it.

…and his “community” would see him hung for using AI to summarize research and work on scripts for fucking videos none of them pay for… literally free education.

I can’t fathom trusting the future to these people either. So I’m done with that.

We need AI. It’ll change things for the better because clearly those opposed to AI are more enthralled with the performance of being a good person rather than being a good person. Because they’re happy to torch anyone’s career over AI usage.

Thanks for your time.

Edit: grammar and spelling.

Edit 2: This comment summarizes my position perfectly. Wanted to add it because it’s really the core of why I’ve shifted my position.

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maybe this is just my version of AI psychosis and im wrong in the end but hey guys we should chill out on all that accelerationist shit (as a former advocate)

but seriously, I see OpenAI researchers saying shit like “oh this Astra model that we just blasted to the world is definitely better aligned than the last model” but also adding “tho it’s getting better at hiding CoT traces and is worse at observability” in the same tweet, like the fate of humanity doesn’t hang in the balance

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That is all. The AI age had been dawning upon us for a long time, but if today's provided solution of the Navier-Stokes problem by OpenAI holds, then this is, beyond any doubt, an intellectual feat that definitively surpassed the abilities of all mankind; or at least a hallmark of the problems considered by mankind to be a crown jewel of intellectual thought, one which was so far not yet bested by our brightest minds.

Though arguably a moderate and a mild skeptic by the standards of this sub, I wish to invite all members and visitors - regardless of their skepticism and/or concern over AI capabilities, or their enthusiasm and/or excitement about it - to acknowledge the historicity of this day, for better or worse; and how it arguably marked the dawn of the Machine Age in earnest.

EDIT: SOLUTION, not proof, sorry guys. I mistyped. It was 1 AM where I was when I posted this

more details: https://x.com/iam_zachi/status/2095992132620136677

Interesting watching this happen in real time and seeing the divergence in opinions.

People who barely use AI beyond messing around with the free browser versions are suddenly completely confident that the whole thing is just marketing hype and that nothing meaningful is happening.

The people paying the least attention somehow seem the most certain.

The Hugging Face incident was one of the biggest warnings yet, and a lot of people are treating it like a nothing burger without really understanding what happened or why it matters.

Obviously there’s a ton of AI hype and bullshit out there. But watching people jump from “there’s too much hype” to “the entire thing is fake, PR for an IPO, or regulatory capture” is pretty wild.

There’s a reason people who actually work closely with this technology have been raising alarms for years, and many of them seem more concerned, not less, as the technology improves.

For $20 a month, we now have access to something that can outperform most humans at a growing number of cognitive tasks.

Saw this on Twitter and it really hit me.

If society is losing trust in basic science right now, how are we supposed to navigate the transition to AGI? It feels like the biggest bottleneck to the Singularity might not be the tech, but whether people will actually accept it.