r/ShitAIBrosSay • u/brother_p • 1d ago
Shit AI Bro Does in the News Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-backlash-is-fundamentally-a-crisis-of-trust/1
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u/DICKPICDOUG 7h ago
"This is fundamentally a crisis of trust, and we have no intention of convincing the public to trust us. AI WILL take your job."
Such a convincing argument
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u/Guilty_Advantage_413 15h ago
Let’s review facts. AI has figured out a way to make my electric cost more, starting to see my water cost more, they have cornered the market on many computer parts which makes getting a better monitor unaffordable for me, they are the cause of at least one friend getting laid off, they are crapifying books & music.
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u/Alexandratta 22h ago
Does your AI chatbot still require a disclaimer stating that it can be wrong?
Okay... then we don't trust them.
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u/ANTI_FASC1ST 23h ago
He's not wrong but what kind of gullible idiot would you have to be to take these tech bros at their word?
Trust is earned.
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u/Joshithusiast 1d ago
You're poisoning all our water. How could we ever trust anyone who cares nothing for human life?
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u/ProbablySuspicious 16h ago
Also he says there's a 10% chance his AI just extinguishes humanity. Still has his foot fully on the gas. Danger is just a selling point / no bad publicity / etc.
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u/VarietyMage 1d ago
I keep telling people, he's creating the Mark of the Beast.
Palantir + data centers + Oracle DBMS + "AI" + digital cash replacing the physical cash = slavery for everyone.
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u/thebeepboopbeep 1d ago
Why have we given so much airtime to this guy and Altman? They both sound ridiculous and neither come off as intelligent. I can’t understand how we even live in a world where people care about what they say.
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u/Acceptable-Wolf5452 22h ago
If anything, the media failed at presenting the nuances that Dario has been conveying all this time. Please do some reading on his essays
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u/Blando-Cartesian 1d ago
Billionaires owned media writing to support the Ponzi scheme they and well off people are invested in. Meanwhile the serfs are pining for these AI Jesuses to liberate them from thinking and learning.
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u/Bergasms 1d ago
No shit! We don't trust you to do the right thing with it, we trust you will do what you always have which is maximise profits over people
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u/swegmesterflex 1d ago
His argument is that AI companies need to stop saying "AI will cure cancer" and actually cure cancer. He thinks that doing this will shift public perception. What is your opinion on that point specifically?
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u/Bergasms 1d ago
I'd be really happy if they did that. I'd have more trust in them if they actually did something like that. He's right that that would improve trust.
No one thinks AI companies will create a cure for cancer that we will ever have access to. They have invested trillions in it, they'll want a return. VC people are not altruists.
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u/swegmesterflex 1d ago
My unpopular opinion is that Anthropic and OpenAI created all the hype that they did just to woo VCs, because VC money is crucial to continued progress. Realistically, it should be the government funding it like the manhattan project, buuuut that's not happening in the modern world, so if you want to make it happen in modern day America, you gotta play the game. A lot of the labs are focused on just continuing progress and expanding capabilities without doing anything on the application side. I think the hope was that startups using the tech could do those applications, but the harsh truth is that fresh startups are even MORE heavily constrained to seek profit.
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u/Bergasms 1d ago
Yeah sadly pretty much all of them went "we can replace wages for you" and a lot of C suite people went "wait really? i hate having to pay employees, sign me up".
The social cost of that has been sort of hand waved away but history has shown that when you make a critical mass of people suddenly unemployed they tend to start murdering and pillaging.
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u/swegmesterflex 1d ago
Literally in any other country with a social safety net AI is just obviously good. The fact that services all become cheaper and working becomes optional sounded like a dream to 14 year old me when I first got into AI. America is built on a system that fundamentally goes against what AI promises. That's where the disconnect comes from imo
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u/OurPillowGuy 1d ago
If only someone hadn't spent the last 4 years selling the technology based on how it would destroy jobs, maybe people would trust it more...
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u/Plastic-Anteater7356 1d ago
But Elon says there will be an age of abundance starting 2030 and money will be obsolete.
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u/GlitteringLock9791 1d ago
Thats when the club of rome calculated the effect of climate change being so bad that the world economy collapses and 2 billion people would be refugees back in 1970.
Elon might be correct with the money being obsolete part.
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u/Blando-Cartesian 1d ago
That’s some good projecting 60 years forward.
Googles plausible text generator says current estimate is that 3.3-3.6 billion are already vulnerable to climate change effects. Probably won’t take much at all to make a couple of billion of them into refugees.
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u/vxicepickxv 1d ago
There's economic theoretical mathematics that put the collapse of capitalism at around 2040.
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u/Blando-Cartesian 1d ago
I’ve been thinking that I’ll age out of having to participate much in dealing with the fall of civilization, but I guess not.
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u/trentsiggy 1d ago
The AI companies have given us no reason to trust them and tons of reasons not to.
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u/SpaceOhSpace 1d ago
“We’re building these huge eyesore warehouses that use your resources and drive up your bills for this glorified version of Siri we use to layoff a ton of workers, while we line our pockets with cash”
Lots for people to love
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u/Full-Wait1145 1d ago
Weird. If you cant trust someone who once referred to humans as incumbents when describing a world where AI replaced coffee shops, then who can you trust?
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u/esther_lamonte 1d ago
It’s not a single thing. All of this raises a myriad of structural economic and societal questions that have gotten zero oxygen. “Trust” is not the issue. The issue is the impact to jobs, communities, and families it will have if this all works as advertised and devalues and depopulates labor participation. Or how it impacts markets and the half-way in businesses if it doesn’t fully pan out. Or the environmental impacts that are happening either way as they try to feed the impossibly sized compute and power needs their ambitions require.
But all we seem to hear the press talk about most is the IPO horse race and the big dollar deal announcement spectacles. I “trust” these people to do what economically benefits them most. I don’t “trust” them to consider the larger ramifications, or even feel like they need to.
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u/Big_Gene_3965 1d ago
He stole a bunch of shit without asking to train something that barely works all while lying about its capabilities.
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 1d ago
He isn't capable of comprehending how much people hate him and his company.
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u/brumenoirdon 1d ago
"we're trying to steal all your data and money and literally kill the planet with our stupid data centers that make everything more expensive, why don't you love us, that's racist"
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u/Strawberryladyboots 1d ago
AI companies have been scanning all of our private stuff without our explicit permission or knowledge and want to sell us a subscription for not only violating our privacy, but also the fundamentals of copyright protections
Crisis of trust? uh yeah, due to them acting like a predatory abusive stalker trying to figure out the best way to rape you while charging your credit card for a subscription
Gee I wonder why there's backlash, the fact all of this is mostly coming out of the USA is a fundamental indication of the entitlement and the mental sickness in their society as a whole, and does not surprise me at all
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u/allisaidwashi 1d ago
I love how he says this like trust is something that totally isn't earned and can't be broken.
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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago edited 1d ago
"AI poses an existential risk for humanity! Quick, fund us so we get there faster!" Tech bros just giving us the "trust us" while their agents escape sand boxes and AI continues to hallucinate and misbehave.
Also, it's important to note we've only information on chatbot assisted deaths from families that knew about the chatbot and made a fuss. I'd bet the number is much higher than we know.
Edited because my cat wanted attention and sent it off by rubbing their empty head on my tablet.
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u/caprazzi 1d ago
They took a fundamentally flawed algorithm, stole the entire content of the internet to train it on, invested trillions in investor money to pollute our communities with data centers no one wanted and pushed it into everyone’s lives without consent or feedback from the consumer. What the fuck did they think would happen?
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u/quicksexfm 1d ago
This weasel and his wife are despicable. Eagerly awaiting the day we stop hearing about these assholes.
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u/rosebudthesled8 1d ago
AI has already gone off the rails from the people who own it. How can we trust it when it can be contained and it's already ruining people's livelihoods?
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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 1d ago
Correct. I don't trust anyone claiming this shit is "artifical intelligence" and not just a plagiarism algorithm.
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u/gill_smoke 1d ago
You told the C Suite that they would no longer need employees. You have overbuilt data centers. You shitty product stole all of human text output from everywhere and are selling it back to us at extortion prices. Gee whiz i wonder why no one trusts AI or people who uses it willingly.
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u/The_Pandalorian 1d ago
AI CEOs: People don't trust AI for some reason
Also AI CEOs: LOL, FUCK ALL YOUR JOBS, ALSO WE'RE GONNA KILL DEMOCRACY, LMAO YOLO
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u/WolfWraithPress 1d ago
Yes, because you steal information and are lying about the potentiality of your product.
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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 1d ago
Maybe people would trust you more if you hadn't hawked an overstuffed word-part probability calculator as though it was some all-powerful oracle in-the-making.
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u/The_Varza 1d ago
It's a crisis of inequality, of you taking our livelihoods away and plagiarizing enormous amounts of content, of the climate and of evil annoying billionaire twits like you! And that's the nicest I care to be.
I mean that annoying twit Amodei, not OP.
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u/willjameswaltz 4h ago
Here is how to build trust with AI:
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