The ten AI myths holding you back — companion videos

Cleo Abram

Cleo Abram walks through both the "it will kill us all" and "more profound than fire" extremes, asks Eric Schmidt the awkward questions, and lands on a sober middle. The framing — "we're living inside a trolley problem" — is exactly the spirit of the article: neither dismiss the technology nor catastrophise it, just understand what it actually is.

What you should get from this: You can argue a sober middle position between the doom and utopia extremes of the AI debate, and know which questions actually matter.

Watch or know first: None — watchable cold.

Acerola

A developer-essayist works through the "AI is just slop / AI is magical / AI is theft" trio of myths with patience and code on the screen. If the article's myth #4 or #7 ("it's just plagiarism," "it's just plagiarism but for art") nagged at you, this is the video that earns the right to disagree with you.

What you should get from this: You can push back on the slop, magic and theft framings with a clearer picture of what generative models actually do.

Watch or know first: None — the on-screen code illustrates the argument; you don't need to read it to follow.