Peter M.J. Gross

“Zitron’s articles are ‘a superficiality of analysis’ despite the voluminous output. Like a lot of conspiracy thinking, they are rooted in fact but have a stricter adherence to supporting an existing narrative.“

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/zitron-not-skeptical/

Ed Zitron Is Not an A.I. Skeptic – Pixel Envy

Kelsey Piper, the Argument: At some point, pretending that how people use AI is a complete mystery is just lying to your audience. And at some point, [Ed] Zitron’s “layers of skepticism” attitude — where he is skeptical that AI is a thing at all, that it has any uses, that those uses provide any […]

May 11 at 7:34pmWeb
Show threadPeter M.J. GrossMay 11

Also relevant: Last October’s Wired article about Zitron’s PR efforts

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-ed-zitron-profile/

Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

WIRED
Show threadMichaelMay 11
@BitterlyIndifferent yeahhhh I'm as big of an AI hater as anyone and I never really followed him, but that's the point when I started to sour on his writing
Show threadPeter M.J. GrossMay 11

@MichaelKlamerus
I found him through a paid ad in Garbage Day around the time of the pandemic?

I quickly realized that no, I wasn’t interested in his newsletter, but it has been baffling to see his work celebrated by so many people since then.

(Maybe not *completely* baffling, since that’s his business model, but it’s still weird to see people promoting him.)

Show threadAndrew PlotkinMay 11
@BitterlyIndifferent @MichaelKlamerus At some point I had the thought "predicted four of the last zero AI industry crashes” and that's when I decided to stop reading.
Show threadMichaelMay 11
@zarfeblong @BitterlyIndifferent that too. There's only so many times someone can say a crash will happen soon before I check out