fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116174381733551327

Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill:

> Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits.

I don't know who's heading up Anthropic's marketing/public relations department, but whoever it is, they know the system very well.

https://open.substack.com/pub/timschwab/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires

Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

The way Anthropic is leveraging the media to its benefit reminds me of that book "Trust Me, I'm Lying" which goes into detail about how easy it is to get stories planted and to get news blogs to spread your lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying

Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

The "quitgpt" website sounds like a leftist movement but is almost certainly a faux-grassroots effort by friends of Anthropic.

I've lost count of how many times Anthropic and the tech community has tricked liberals simply because people aren't taking the time to do research.

The irony. Liberals are falling for this shit because of a lack of media literacy and an inability to consume media through a critical lens.

Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

I've stopped listening to Hank Green because of his Anthropic shilling. I wrote about it here:

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

Hank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs

In his two latest videos, Hank Green promotes AI-doomerist rhetoric that sounds a lot like big tech talking points.

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Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

AlbertaTech is another suspect influencer who suddenly has a lot of pro-Anthropic takes.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116072957268878414

Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

Even the devs at Bluesky are going out of their way to promote Anthropic publicly. None of this shit feels organic.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116167970969218100

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It's been reported that Anthropic is "working with social media influencers" under the assumption that these influencers are making clearly marked ads.

But I don't think that's what's happening. I think Anthropic is throwing a bunch of money at influential people in the tech community to make unmarked sponsored content.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

Mar 5 at 4:21pmIceCubesApp
Show threadJiji, the catMar 5
@fromjason my pessimistic feeling is that maybe anthropic doesn’t even need to give them any money, that those people are now just glad to have a “good ai” to flock behind because it’s convenient for them to no longer be contra, for image reasons or maybe because they just want to be able to use ai publicly :/
Show threadJiji, the catMar 5
@fromjason i’m not sure which version i like less tbh
Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Mar 5

@jiji it's certainly getting to that point. The problem is, after a certain amount of synthetic support, people will just follow along thinking it's what the majority believes.

It's hard to say which are being paid off but for Hank Green, as an example, we know he was paid by some sketchy AI saftey company that has ties to big tech.