"Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters."

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/ai-sam-altman-fear-mongering

#news #TechNews #technology #AI

AI CEOs are scaring America

AI CEOs are winning investors but risk losing customers with messaging.

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@stefan I too sway between AI and fascism for the number one spot of things I hate.
@PaulaToThePeople @stefan AI as currently in use seems to be nothing but a tool for fascists so there's some serious evil synergy going on here.
@minentromaxinfo absolutely. There is no AI without fascism and there would be much less fascism without AI.
@stefan "AI CEOs scare Americans — also, sign up for our AI bullshit to read past the first paragraph" 🙄

@haverholm Ah, there was no paywall when I was sharing this earlier, sorry!

I wonder what people use nowadays instead of archive.is.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack/

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack | TechCrunch

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

TechCrunch
@stefan Oh, you did nothing wrong here. I just find it incredibly tone deaf of Axios to peddle "AI" newsletters over an article that appears to be critical of the "AI" industry...
@stefan But yeah, the market is ripe for an archival/paywall dodging site that isn't run by a raving lunatic.
@stefan this article isn't even formatted in paragraphs, was it even written by a human?
@vv Hmm, good point! I suppose it could be AI-generated (the irony!), or maybe this is how you optimize articles for AI crawlers these days?

@stefan @vv couldn’t see the linked article but I think axios has an extremely specific style

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/popular-chatbots-amplify-misinformation

Exclusive: Popular chatbots amplify misinformation

The rate at which popular AI services amplify or fail to flag falsehoods has doubled in a year, per NewsGuard.

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@darby3 Good find, thank you!

@vv

@stefan @darby3 so i guess maybe AI is mimicking axios' style a lot of the time...