plzdontkillus Fellows Got ~2M AI Safety Views, Not 21M
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SummaryI was a fellow at plzdontkillus, a month-long creator bootcamp at Lighthaven, partially funded by MIRI, where ~55 fellows posted one video per day.
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SummaryI was a fellow at plzdontkillus, a month-long creator bootcamp at Lighthaven, partially funded by MIRI, where ~55 fellows posted one video per day. plzdontkillus.com originally claimed “21M+ AI risk views” with no breakdown. After I shared a draft of this post, the organizers relabeled it “X-Risk Relevant Views” and published one. Three videos account for 80% of the views: a datacenter-water-use debunk (8.5M), an AI dystopia video (6.4M), and a Rob Miles Hugging Face incident explainer (2
By Josh Thorsteinson