Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Casey has fallen into the trap that has made in many in tech turn against the tech press. Instead of a balanced analysis of new technology, the only choices are to dismiss it as a scam or warn that it's a catastrophe in the making. I've pretty much given up on tech coverage in the New York Times because it's always the latter.
Casey Newton set out to discover if AI is fake and sucks or if it's real and dangerous. He argued it's real and dangerous by trotting out examples of harmful uses of AI. I think AI is like the internet, people thought it was fake and sucked but it turned out to be real and dangerous in many ways (ransomware, spam, CSAM, etc) but is also extremely useful. ...