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Prakash and Taylor Lorenz argue audience capture drives commentators to claim AI is both useless and dangerous

Public frustration makes hyperbolic anti-AI content highly profitable.

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Prakash@8teAPi#1330inAI

Yeah pretty much explains a bunch of people who should know better but have been audience captured and are now stuck, on the one hand claiming it doesn’t work and on the other that it’s unsafe.

12:51 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 829 Views

/AI9h ago

Prakash and Taylor Lorenz argue audience capture drives commentators to claim AI is both useless and dangerous

Public frustration makes hyperbolic anti-AI content highly profitable.

48981011.5K

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Prakash@8teAPi#1330inAI

Yeah pretty much explains a bunch of people who should know better but have been audience captured and are now stuck, on the one hand claiming it doesn’t work and on the other that it’s unsafe.

12:51 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 829 Views

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Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

Case in point: all the Facebook pages and meme accounts raking in tons of money by pivoting to posting anti data center AI generated graphics. I covered this on my podcast recently. https://www.404media.co/ai-grifters-are-making-anti-data-center-slop-with-ai/

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Ernest W. Wohnig III 🌻@EWohnig

@8teAPi And on their third hand claiming it will take all the jobs and crash the economy.

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