fromBig Think
1 week agoThe rise of AI denialism
Over the past few months, we've seen a surge of skepticism around the phenomenon currently referred to as the "AI boom." The shift began when OpenAI released GPT-5 this summer to mixed reviews, mostly from casual users. We've since had months of breathless claims from pundits and influencers that the era of rapid AI advancement is ending, that AI scaling has hit the wall, and that the AI boom is just another tech bubble. These same voices overuse the phrase "AI slop" to disparage the remarkable images, documents, videos, and code that AI models produce at the touch of a button.
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