I use silly tavern a lot and am trying to learn how to self host. I don’t think the hate really stems from the tool itself. It stems from the people who are doing everything in their power to force everyone else to use the tool for everything including things that it is clearly not intended to be used for, while simultaneously using it for incredibly shitty things like replacing the jobs of everyone and anyone they possibly can, putting entire countries under mass surveillance, and absolutely destroying entire communities and the planet with extremely irresponsibly managed datacenters.

I think if Ai was not being so heavily abused and mismanaged, it would not be nearly as hated.

If a man with a hammer was going around town smashing people and their property, you would probably hate the person and not the hammer. Because of the nature of llms, it’s very easy to hate the hammer instead of the person wielding it. Which is great for the assholes at the top because they get to keep destroying the world with Ai while everyone blames the ai.