AI doom sentiment on Hacker News has reached an all-time high since ChatGPT's release, doubling annually according to an analysis of 300,000+ posts and comments since 2010.

A developer created an April Fools' project using an AI judge to score over 300,000 Hacker News posts and top comments dating back to 2010 for AI pessimism sentiment

Analysis reveals a stark upward trend in negative AI sentiment, with disgruntled pessimism about AI reaching peak levels in recent weeks

Pessimism about AI has been doubling annually since ChatGPT's release, confirming the creator's intuition about increasingly negative discourse

The project includes an interactive interface with historical charts and modes to filter content by doom sentiment level (Doom Only vs. Calm mode)