If I had known Hasan Minhaj was going to pull this clip from a podcast I did and cut it into a video for his 2 million subscribers I would have cleaned up my office a little first
The whole segment, about the Gen Z backlash to Silicon Valley, is pretty great though, and I am pleased to be included—it includes an interview with an organizer with New York's Luddite club speaking through a robot trash puppet
Guy who said he could beat up a much larger guy at a bar and didn't expect the guy to fight him type energy
It’s extremely funny to see their doomer PR used against them.
Did Anthropic really earn its reputation as an "ethical" AI company, or is it just a clever marketing strategy? To answer the question, @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with tech journalist @bcmerchant.bsky.social.
Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant
Anthropic's Mythos campaign—it must be understood as a marketing campaign above all—was the ne plus ultra of AI doom marketing. It was instrumental in vaulting Anthropic to its latest valuation and status as the top AI startup.
But as AI firms are increasingly finding, there are drawbacks...
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MYTHOS is so powerful that it must be protected by strict guardrails that prevent anyone from ever learning whether or not it's actually powerful at all
