The AI Booster Tier List

Podcast: muckrAIkers · Jacob Haimes and Igor Krawczuk

Opublikowano: 2026-05-04

This week, Jacob and Igor swap the usual news breakdown for a complete taxonomy of AI boosters within the framing of a tier list. They run through every type, from the good-faith genuine enthusiast to the denial-prone deflector, the financially captured, corporate power-players, platform builders, and finally the model-building true believers. They also get into "crit-hype," the idea that some critics are inadvertently boosting the systems they're fighting against. No muck to separate this week, just the guys working through their framework and explaining why their opinions are S tier. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction (02:45) - Introducing...