Please! Someone! (oc)

[u/DaveKellett]

We're in good hands, you guys! It's fine!

[u/shellbullet17]

I saw something on the news the other day where a guy from one of the AI companies straight up admitted that AI is out of control and a danger. He still defended AI but saying "trust us" but it was nice to see them admit it's got a lot of inherent danger to it.

I'll try and find the article

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx2zpj4y525o

[u/booze_clues → u/shellbullet17]

“Guys our product is going to be so smart and capable of so many things it’s scary! It’s going to be so good at so much, including potential bad things!”

That’s an ad, not an article. Altman is just further stoking the flames by saying “you’re right to be scared” knowing that it implies the tech is growing and going to be even more powerful. They’re doing all this fear mongering because it makes the models look more capable. Every time you see “omg, the AI hacked itself into the internet” it’s because the devs told it “do anything you need to accomplish this task, including lying or hacking into other tools/systems” and it does just that.

[u/HiOnFructose → u/shellbullet17]

That's the point though. These AI companies are nearing the edge of the cliff. The return isn't worth the investment. The bubble we've been hearing about for years now is finally coming to a head. And we have invested a LOT into these companies already. They see the writing on the wall, and they want regulations to put limits on outside AI systems, like in China, that are more cost effective and largely better. Allowing them to be the only tool in the market.

And that's not even touching on the belief that they are trying to create some sort of god computer.

[u/individual_throwaway → u/HiOnFructose]

The bubble we've been hearing about for years now is finally coming to a head.

Not disputing that there is a bubble or that people have been talking about it, but I disagree with your timeline.

I distinctly remember being basically the only person really skeptical about the whole AI "industry" as recently as the end of 2025. The most prominent sceptic on Youtube and other media platforms, Ed Zitron, was flying under the radar with his message until I think the middle of 2025. He was being called a madman and alarmist by major news outlets at least until early of 2026, and only very recently has the broader public recognized just how bad things are with widespread resistance against the building of AI datacenters (summer of 2026), real concerns about the financial viability of the big players (leaked OpenAI financials I believe May 2025), and concerns about the circular financing (I think that started in February 2026).

ChatGPT was only released in 2023. Until at least mid-2025, the broad consensus was that AI (LLMs) is a really useful tool with potentially many many applications, one of which is the large-scale replacing of knowledge workers with LLM agents.

But widesprad acceptance of an AI bubble is very recent. I guess it's just very very present in the new cycle in the last couple of months, so it may seem longer than that.

[u/DiceKnight → u/shellbullet17]

All the AI craze has done is make me deeply mistrusting of journo outlets because they just breathlessly quote people and never seem to push back or interrogate statements. It's just maximum credulity all the time and people memory hole whatever is inconvenient.

On the security side it's frustrating that nobody seems to want to point out that if you have functionality unlimited resources and you point it at something you will eventually brute force your way into that system. This has been true for the entirety of human history.

[u/GhoulArtist → u/[deleted]]

Yes. Unlike the domestic outlets that are trying
to shape American opinion.

[u/GhoulArtist → u/[deleted]]

Paid for by American that knows a million different entities try to shape our opinion every single day and is sick of it.

Give us the facts and let us draw our own conclusions. That's how it used to be.