It seems to me (entirely anecdotal, YMMV, etc. etc.) that Ed Zitron’s blog posts started getting both longer and considerably more histrionic when he started moving most of them behind a paywall. I’m definitely in the “AI skeptic” camp and think Zitron has good points to make about both the shaky business models around AI and the unrelenting hype train, but it’s hard not to get the impression that he’s found a niche of preaching to the rabid AI haters willing to give him money to keep spouting increasingly repetitive vitriol toward Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.