AI Companies Recruit Superfans to Convert Skeptical Employees
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Thank you for adhering to your principles, @BrianRoemmele. It’s precisely why you’re quickly building up your own “superfans”. I remember the 1990s when the open Internet exploded. No one needed “influencers” or paid shills to get people to use it. The fact that AI companies are now desperately cultivating “superfans” tells you everything: • Power is dangerously concentrated in too few hands • Their PR is failing spectacularly • They’re scrambling with clueless marketing hires to rehab a narrative that’s already escaped them Real adoption doesn’t require astroturf armies. Organic value does. When a company turns to propaganda, it means they’ve already lost the plot.
I don't think I ever have to worry about open AI approaching me, Even if I did have power and influence. (I don't.) I have too often described their models as "sniveling c-word" (And that's not *c*orporate.) I try not to because people don't like that word, but as far as I'm concerned that's what they are.
@BrianRoemmele What we're seeing now is AI companies trying to misguide goo people into being their new elites. It will work, those who abide will be picked and the rest will be a permanent sub-class. Dumbing down society and realizing Idiocracy.
@BrianRoemmele “I can use the funds to build but I want my soul—I like it.” Good choice. You’ll be happier with your conscience and your soul will appreciate it.
