[superkuh]

I think the "What is an AI Booster" could've been placed a bit more towards the top of the article to explain this was about business people and corporations and not actually about AI,

>So, an AI booster is not, in many cases, an actual fan of artificial intelligence. People like Simon Willison or Max Woolf who actually work with LLMs on a daily basis don’t see the need to repeatedly harass everybody, or talk down to them about their unwillingness to pledge allegiance to the graveyard smash of generative AI. In fact, the closer I’ve found somebody to actually building things with LLMs, the less likely they are to emphatically argue that I’m missing out by not doing so myself.

>No, the AI booster is symbolically aligned with generative AI. They are fans in the same way that somebody is a fan of a sports team, their houses emblazoned with every possible piece of tat they can find, their Sundays living and dying by the success of the team, except even fans of the Dallas Cowboys have a tighter grasp on reality.

[Uehreka]

I get the feeling that folks like Ed find “genuine AI enjoyers” to be an annoying inconvenience in their efforts to write fun cathartic screeds about how AI is useless and the people pushing for it are all frauds.

He has to include that section as CYA against people saying they legitimately like AI, but if he made it more prominent it might start to complicate the narrative and let air out of the balloon.