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    Beff Jezos Calls AI Safety Advocates Nation Traitors

    The remark appeared in replies to a tweet by developer Ben Awad on X.

    Susan ZhangSZ
    Sriram KrishnanSK
    Dylan PatelDP
    20 Sources, 46d ago, first seen 46d ago

    TLDR

    Beff Jezos posted that AI safety advocates are traitors to the nation. The statement replied to Ben Awad sharing multiple sponsorship offers for anti-AI YouTube videos. Taylor Lorenz noted that AI safety organizations quietly pay creators large undisclosed sums for such content and that much of the funding traces to Effective Altruism. Other replies mentioned the Center for AI Safety and its Frame Fellowship program selecting creators to produce videos on AI risks. Dylan Patel separately claimed CCP-linked groups back some anti-AI and anti-datacenter efforts.

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    20 Sources

    Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosThe AI Safetysist are traitors to the nation46d
    lumpenspace and 99+ others@lumpenspaceyou have heard it here first, but i guess now you can believe it too @theojaffee / @HumanLevelJen. also, youtube should demonetise a bunch of them, since the sponsorship was undeclared (cc @sebkrier)46d
    elie@eliebakouchseems like this is already happening45d
    Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenzMaking anti AI content on YouTube is not only profitable bc you’ll get a zillion views on any anti AI slop, but also bc there are a litany of these sorts of “AI safety” orgs that will quietly pay you massive amounts of $$ for undisclosed propaganda45d
    SemiAnalysis@SemiAnalysis_Any recommendations for the incoming OpenAI team member on how to engage the Ohio community best? @TaylorLorenz45d
    kache@yacineMTBMe when the butelerin jihad starts: "honestly those tech bros have gone too far. I tried to stop them"45d
    Dylan Patel@dylan522pThere's quite a bit of CCP funded anti datacenter and anti AI organizations. Just follow the money.45d
    Turner Novak 🍌🧢@TurnerNovak@TaylorLorenz Any idea where the cash is ultimately coming from?45d
    Sriram Krishnan@sriramk@dylan522p @beffjezos Very much so.44d
    Alexander Terenin@avt_imStarting to understand the picture better. A shocking degree of public opinion is downstream of someone with a lot of money deciding to put in the work to shift people’s views on a topic, and carrying this out unchallenged.44d

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    Summary

    Many accounts dismissed anti-AI advocacy as funded grift or dark-money astroturfing by AI interests, while others endorsed call-outs of safety groups quietly sponsoring YouTube propaganda.

    Based on 30 sentiment-bearing replies from 27 accounts across 4 conversations.

    Sentiment

    Positive37%63%Negative

    Summary

    Many accounts dismissed anti-AI advocacy as funded grift or dark-money astroturfing by AI interests, while others endorsed call-outs of safety groups quietly sponsoring YouTube propaganda.

    Based on 30 sentiment-bearing replies from 27 accounts across 4 conversations.

    20 Sources

    Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosThe AI Safetysist are traitors to the nation46d
    lumpenspace and 99+ others@lumpenspaceyou have heard it here first, but i guess now you can believe it too @theojaffee / @HumanLevelJen. also, youtube should demonetise a bunch of them, since the sponsorship was undeclared (cc @sebkrier)46d
    elie@eliebakouchseems like this is already happening45d
    Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenzMaking anti AI content on YouTube is not only profitable bc you’ll get a zillion views on any anti AI slop, but also bc there are a litany of these sorts of “AI safety” orgs that will quietly pay you massive amounts of $$ for undisclosed propaganda45d
    SemiAnalysis@SemiAnalysis_Any recommendations for the incoming OpenAI team member on how to engage the Ohio community best? @TaylorLorenz45d
    kache@yacineMTBMe when the butelerin jihad starts: "honestly those tech bros have gone too far. I tried to stop them"45d
    Dylan Patel@dylan522pThere's quite a bit of CCP funded anti datacenter and anti AI organizations. Just follow the money.45d
    Turner Novak 🍌🧢@TurnerNovak@TaylorLorenz Any idea where the cash is ultimately coming from?45d
    Sriram Krishnan@sriramk@dylan522p @beffjezos Very much so.44d
    Alexander Terenin@avt_imStarting to understand the picture better. A shocking degree of public opinion is downstream of someone with a lot of money deciding to put in the work to shift people’s views on a topic, and carrying this out unchallenged.44d