• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    No, AI companies don’t “have a PR problem”

    They are the problem. It’s in their bones. Harm is their business model. It is not fixable. This is not a case of handing out enough pizza and smiling harder.

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      23 hours ago

      If anything, it’s the other way around: we have an AI-company PR problem. Media outlets can’t stop themselves from presenting interviews with CEOs of AI companies as some sort of reliable source for how incredible AI really is if we would only spend more money locking ourselves into AI-driven workflows.

      TL;DR the umbrella-selling weatherman keeps predicting that rain is on the way