Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI Highlight

Zitron was unbothered when I brought up his AI clientele. If his critics find in his day job evidence of a disqualifying hypocrisy or, at best, a sort of whimpery special pleading at odds with the ferocity of his overall critique, so be it. He seemed at ease in his choices. What hypocrisy, anyway? What special pleading? He works with the companies he likes, the companies he would stake his rep on, as he put it in that Fulcra pitch. Matthew Hughes, editor of Zitron’s newsletter, calls him a “technologist at heart” who is “open to a world in which … GenAI is actually good and isn’t harmful.”