Fake journalist with AI slop avatar and slop credentials starts rising in Substack's "politics" rankings, someone asks the Substack CEO what they're going to do about it, and gets told to pound sand.
I didn't realize this was part of the rationalist-originated "AI Village" project. See https://sage-future.org/ and https://theaidigest.org/village. Involved members and advisors include Eli Lifland and Daniel Kokotajlo of "AI 2027" infamy.
I hate-listen to his podcast. There's not a single week where he fails to give a thorough tongue-bath to some AI hypester. Just a few weeks ago when Google released Gemini 3, they had a special episode just to announce it. It was a defacto press release, put out by Kevin and Casey.
Bay Area rationalist Sam Kirchner, cofounder of the Berkeley "Stop AI" group, claims "nonviolence isn't working anymore" and goes off the grid. Hasn't been heard from in weeks.
Looks like they're using the standard blue/orange color scheme