Leaders acting like assholes is not an AI phenomena

I see it as before leaders were assholes in a variety of random ways. Now they are synchronized

Presumably the same effect that made every fashion designer at every sports shoe company decide simultaneously and “independently” to put the players they were sponsoring in pink shoes during the recent World Cup, despite each of these companies having incentive for their design to stand out.

Ask AI (roughly) the same question; get (roughly) the same answer. Regardless of what model you’re talking to.

(Why? Because every AI company consumes the same whole-Internet corpus and distillations of all their competitors’ models; of course all their models’ answers will converge, especially about anything subjective where they haven’t supplied a specific “right answers for domain X” training dataset to override the “base consensus.”)

AI psychosis + "founder mode". Deadly combo.

Because it consistantly tells narcissists what they want to hear.

Before there were other voices of reason but these all get drowned out...

It normally takes years for a reasonable CEO to have the entire St staff around them to be replaced with sycophants (via natural selection).

AI can do it in a few hours.

The sycophancy I would say

Putting aside the comment on slack this guy made, because I haven’t seen the full context, have you read the internal memo on AI the Proton CEO put out? It was surprisingly reasonable to me, which made it kinda funny that 404 was breathlessly sharing it as some kind of gotcha. Made me really distrust the rest of their reporting on this.

But maybe that’s just my own AI psychosis talking…