[torben-friis]

This is a huge problem regarding the specifics of ai. Tech is becoming very adversarial as a worker, since marketing and technical information are blurring lines more and more.

[smrtinsert]

Influencers are getting paid to promote ai for 10s of thousands of USD. This is one the reasons social media has been swamped with it lately.

[1alprw]

Yes, some of the latest campaigns:

https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-p...

Anthropic's own talking point guide:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945021

There were earlier initiatives from the industry. This is just what is in the open and does not even include automated LLM "influencers".

[gofreddygo]

OMG ! I've been dealing with one such AI kool aid nut for 6 months now and I can trace a lot of they've done down to specific pointers from that anthropic "champion" playbook.

[bdelmas]

This! I now have to fight bad tech decisions at my companies because many devs follow influencers.

Look also at the hate spread against UE5… It’s everywhere and half of the arguments are falsehoods made by influencers with no real experience in the industry…

[ignoramous]

> Tech is becoming very adversarial as a worker, since marketing and technical information are blurring lines

Since one of LLM's largest market (with product fit) is us developers, we are experiencing what the crypto bros did to others.