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Bernie has been compromised by AI evangelists and PR stunts.
As a reminder, Bernie believes AI should be privately owned but with a large public stake in it (a sovereign wealth fund), which effectively means the US government would have a vested interest in keeping the unprofitable part of Elon Musk's industries — the CSAM-generating ones — profitable.
Those were PR stunts.
You'll notice Bernie isn't even talking about regulating data centers any more, which is concrete and actionable.
He's just repeating what AI companies say to promote their product as being better than it really is, and encourage corporate capture that will guarantee a corporate monopoly.
Yeah, OpenAI and Anthropic executives signed it because it is good for their business.
Bernie definitely disappointed me with his take on AI. I believe it is criminal and everyone responsible for the theft and misappropriation of humanity's creative workforce should be in prison, forever incapable from profiting from this egregious act of self service.
Then you’re a criminal from learning from Gogh as well. All artists are theives at this point. Nothings original.
You left off all the writers, musicians, programmers, academics,etc. Expand your mind. Better yet, spend many years to become a leading artisan of whatever, watch your work be absorbed and iterated for profit by billionaires, undermining your value, increasing theirs.