{"slug": "saying-something-nice-about-claude", "title": "Saying something nice about Claude", "summary": "A developer who has been critical of AI and large language models acknowledges the technology's potential harms, including economic bubble concerns and social damage from AI-generated content, while also noting some positive aspects of Claude.", "body_md": "I have been accused of being overly negative about AI, particularly large language models, and I have my share of issues with the technology. I do believe that we are pouring trillions of dollars into a bubble based on business models that can't possibly justify the investment and that the resulting crash will do great damage to the economy. I believe that the technology will never be capable of doing much of what has been promised and that much of what it is capable of (AI slop, disinformation, non-consensual sexualized images) is already doing a tremendous amount of social harm.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saying-something-nice-about-claude", "canonical_source": "https://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/saying-something-nice-about-claude.html", "published_at": "2026-08-25 11:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 11:43:04.659439+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saying-something-nice-about-claude", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saying-something-nice-about-claude.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saying-something-nice-about-claude.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saying-something-nice-about-claude.jsonld"}}