Just as many had predicted, Time magazine once again took some liberties with its annual “Person of the Year” issue.
Besides blocking users from reading its website with an AI chatbot, the magazine anointed the “architects of AI” as its most important visionaries of 2025, eschewing the definition of “person” yet again.
The eyeroll-inducing announcement was met with plenty of incredulity, especially considering the astronomical amount of money being spent on building out data centers, their enormous carbon footprint, and a whole litany of other ethical conundrums that the embrace of generative AI has spawned.
One online group was particularly irked by Time‘s announcement. As author Parker Molloy pointed out on Bluesky, those who bet on who would be named “Person of the Year” on prediction markets were absolutely furious — perfectly illustrating the risks of throwing money at unregulated gambling websites.
“Someone please explain to me how this is not a trick?” one user complained after betting on billionaire Elon Musk on Kalshi. “Person of the year is a singular title…”
“This is actually so freaking stupid,” another user seethed.
Other users who had bet on “AI” argued that Kalshi owed them money.
“This pretty clearly should’ve resolved to yes,” one user wrote. “If you bought AI, reach out to Kalshi support because ‘AI’ is literally on the cover and in the title ‘Architects of AI.'”
Many argued it was stupid to bet on “AI,” given the purpose of Time‘s annual issue.
“Stop complaining AI didn’t win,” one user wrote. “AI was never going to win because of the technicality that Time would never state AI as ‘person of the year’ and would rather be ‘technology’ or some variant.”
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