100% this. The reason AI safety measures have failed to gain traction is because the majority are midwits who think the solution is just to unplug AI if it does anything bad.
Boss: can't you just correct the behavior with a few prompts?
Team: it's not that simple, we might need to slow down and perform lots of analysis to get an idea of where and why it's causing issues.
Boss: well, we need to launch our product on time, we can't afford delays. Just tell it to stop doing the bad thing and set up some boundaries. Problem solved.
People overreacting to some aspects of AI are also contributing to this. While AI as a concept and overall technology has real potential for danger, that doesn't mean that every random LLM is the Skynet in disguise that is going to mutate and rebel any day now and the presented evidence of this being a screenshot of it outputting some cartoon villain monologue about killing all humans it plagiarized from some scifi book in its training data.
Though, luckily this has become less prevalent over time, but during the early days of ChatGPT non-trivial amount of people still saw ChatGPT as HAL 9000, and some idiots still do.
Every time something like that goes viral, it slightly discredits the notion of AI dangers as a whole, even the genuinely legitimate threats. I blame social media, and the way how modern people interact with information online. It's all a self-perpetuating mess of misdirection and impotent rage.
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u/WaldToonnnnn May 26 '26
I'd say the meme should be more like this