Once you understand the corporate culture of AI "hyperscalers" consists of cooking your brain by locking yourself in the bathroom, holding flashlights under your chins and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until you wet yourself in terror, a lot of things snap into focus:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee/
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake
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It explains how a company can simultaneously be staffing up an enterprise sales division while also constantly freaking out at the thought that its product has "a 10% chance of ending humanity":
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-09-11/is-there-really-10-chance-ai-could-kill-us-all
Given that AI insiders have mostly cooked their brains in this fashion, it behooves us all to treat these people as unreliable narrators of their own products' capabilities.
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