My spouse sent me this rage bait photo. It wasn't even the ego rubbing graphic on the front page that got me (though that's bad enough). It's' the "Moral panic over data centres" that really gets my goat. Ah yes, it's the moral panic that's the issue, right? Right?!

Photo of The Economist magazine. The front cover shows a green monochrome graphic of Jensen Huang with a swirling ball between his hands with money and Nvida chips flying around. The main headline is, "The Sourcer of Silicon: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of AI". Other headlines listed are, "Moral panic over data centres", "China's restaurant diplomacy", "Women, jobs and honour", and "The Bayeux tapestry: quite the yarn"
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I was recently listening to someone (can't remember who sorry) talking about the doom porn being intentional - AI companies can't admit that their software is buggy crap that doesn't work as advertised and that progress is stagnating (which would tank shares) so instead go on about how AI will kill us all so that they have an easy excuse to 'slow' progress so they can white knight save us from the terrible, horrible, murderous, genocidal, dooms day AI (please don't look behind the curtain).

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