Audiogram with Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 logo, title “Wrapping up a Hellish 2025” and subhead “TIME tries to make AI boosters look as fundamental as construction workers”
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Alex: It's the classic image, “Lunch atop a skyscraper,” that was taken in 1932. 11 iron workers sitting 850 feet above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. And then the new one is a picture of Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and then Dario Amodei. And then, barely off the side of the screen is Fei-Fei Li. But it’s so weird because it looks like they’re all kind of photoshopped in. Their legs are kind of dangling in weird ways. But apparently it was actually painted.
Emily: Yeah. And the commentary on this has been fun online. There was someone who captioned this “Stealworkers,” S-T-E-A-L instead of S-T-E-E-L, which was pretty great.
Alex: Yeah. Love that.
