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Anonymous ML Engineer Claims Frontier Labs Hitting Scaling Limits, Facing Existential Threat

Letter alleges AI discourse poisoned by sponsored influencers and astroturfed hype

2 Sep 14 2:00 PM · 13d ago · 1 post · 1 source · development 2 of 5

The engineer claims voices driving AI hype, including online course influencers, are now sponsored by AI companies. They allege engineers deploy agents as cover projects to market models and scrape data.

“The online discussion is poisoned. A lot of the voices driving the hype, the influencers who sold those online courses, are now just being sponsored by the AI companies themselves.”

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