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  • lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world
    87·
    2 months ago

    FWIW, I think they pick the most influential person or persons, not the person I think is the best from the year. Hitler was person of the year and so was Trump.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      541·
      2 months ago

      Exactly this. “AI” and the people behind it were highly newsworthy, it’s not a prize and never has been.

        • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
          39·
          2 months ago

          Despite the name, the title is not just granted to individuals. Pairs of people such as married couples and political opponents, classes of people, and inanimate objects have all been selected for the special year-end issue.

          — Wikipedia

          Notable past winners include:

          • The computer
          • The endangered Earth
          • The Spirit of Ukraine
          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
            123·
            2 months ago

            It’s more of a branding thing I guess. It’s not like the “award” is real, it’s just “this is what the ruling class likes this year”

          • taiyang@lemmy.world
            5·
            2 months ago

            Useful information. That said, it’s probably a little more dangerous in this case because too many people are personifying LLM behavior. I don’t think any people assume The Spirit of Ukraine is a sentient being, for instance.

            But I concede that the people pushing AI certainly can be, especially since their influence has ruined so many lives already and is poised to ruin many more, both directly and indirectly.

            • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
              3·
              2 months ago

              As you can see in the top right corner the person of the year title applies to the architects of AI.

        • Denjin@feddit.uk
          13·
          2 months ago

          The front page literally says: “the architects of AI” are the person of the year.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
            59·
            2 months ago

            In tiny font compared to everything else. It’s clear AI is the person of the year.

            Although “the architects of subprime mortgages” would have been a funny person of the year too.

        • ch00f@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 months ago

          I mean I was the Time person of the year in 2006, and I was still in high school.

  • drdiddlybadger@pawb.social
    261·
    2 months ago

    In defense of Time magazine here they did have Hitler as person of the year once. Its just the most influential person/thing not the “best”.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
    233·
    2 months ago

    Hell of a way to announce you don’t understand the concept of Time Person of the Year

    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      42·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, that’s the excuse they use when later it turns out that their picks weren’t that good, but overall theme is that they try to show the positive people/events.

      AI is being prepared as a revolution that can have positive benefits, they are also trying to mislead people that it can think, though when you actually use it for things like software engineering you quickly learn that it is now scam than anything.

      The tool is only good in negative aspects such as disinformation and surveillance.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 months ago

    That magazine was already irrelevant since a decade ago, I’ve never taken their person of the year thing serious

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    AI is definitelly the “Thing of the Year” in terms of its impact.

    Doesn’t mean it’s a good thing though, just high impact (and impact which is going to be even higher when the bubble collapses dragging the rest of the American Economy with it).

  • spongebue@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 months ago

    Everyone here is complaining that AI isn’t a person and bringing up 2006… Nobody seems to remember 1982’s person of the year.