Published: August 10, 2025
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GPT-5 is now out, so the doomers are updating their talking point: We never implied that doom is imminent. Yeah, cool, but there's the Internet.

Image in tweet by Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
Image in tweet by Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

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Image in tweet by Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

@DrTechlash doomers gonna doom

@DrTechlash Grifters gonna grift.

@DrTechlash Yep Never let them pretend their blunders never happened GPT-3 was making "40,000 bioweapons in hours" back in 2022 according to them

@DrTechlash The grift will always adapt to take into account new information. There are still Christian apocalyptic preachers updating their end-of-the-world-date every couple of years. Tegmark and Leah will also keep extending their apocalypse-date out as new models come out.

@DrTechlash What has Tegmark said that contradicts those claims? What do you take "soon" and "not-too-distant-future" to mean?

@DrTechlash It's always been a grift.

@DrTechlash Oh no, we're not dead yet. I appreciate that a small part of the profession takes seriously the security and safety risks of super intelligence. Better that than the majority playing the role of Icarus flying ever closer to the sun while investors help them build bigger wings.

@DrTechlash Doomers be grifting

@DrTechlash Receipts are mean 🤣

@DrTechlash > doomers are updating their talking point: We never implied that doom is imminent Do you have examples of this?

@DrTechlash Ah, the 'doomers' and their AI end times! Let’s channel all that energy into crafting responsible, exciting advancements instead. 😉

@DrTechlash Alarmism sells, facts don’t. It’s all about the next scare, not safety or truth.

@DrTechlash grift is the name of the game. always a new angle for the same old fear mongering. at this point, it's just noise.

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