[danaris]

> Why publish something brazenly self-serving that will at best be forgotten two weeks later, or at worst be added to the list of reasons a bunch of people have to hate you, when you could instead earn some goodwill as a benevolent thought leader and maybe get some academics and politicians to come out of the woodwork backing your ideas?

For the same reason that the tech execs do all the other terrible things they do: because they want to own e v e r y t h i n g, and know that they can't do that by acting in good faith.

They want to be the new feudal overlords, and care much less about "goodwill" than they do about making it seem inevitable that they will be the gatekeepers of all thought and labor.

The more they can convince you, the people, and the policymakers that this "AI revolution" is real, and not just a bubble, the less likely everyone is to see through their exaggerations, misdirections, and outright lies to the fact that LLMs are not, and are never going to become, AGI. They are measurably not replacing any significant number of workers. They cannot do our jobs.