The Wall Street Journal sounds a bit concerned.

Just to step back and get a look at the big picture (or the big pictures), when we talk about AI, which these days almost always comes down to large language models and LLM-driven agents, there are at least four huge stories to choose from.1. The capacities and limitations of the rapidly evolving technology. This is both the most exciting and infuriating part of AI news, with legitimate breakthroughs and sensationalistic crap fighting for readers' attention.2. The tremendous and often tremendously negative impact that this huge breakthrough in natural language processing has had on society, including AI slop, new and improved pig butchering scams, AI-generated documents clogging up the court system, hallucinations corrupting data and scientific research, AI psychosis, and people increasingly turning to computers for human interaction.3. The Doomsday cult (going by the somewhat questionable name the rationalists) that has been quietly gestating in Silicon Valley for 15 or 20 years now…

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