Submitted 1 day ago by steam@programming.dev to [deleted]
so i see a lot of ai hate here on lemmy,reddit,youtube,other social medias and sites. but irl almost everyone i know loves ai ,i do love ai myself.
so why is that?
Everybody I know hates AI, fears AI will take their job, and use AI all the time themselves.
I see both ends irl and online. Sometimes it feels as much a political issue as it is a technological one. Some models are quite useful. A lot are not. When the bubble implodes, the winners will rise from the ashes of the fallen. Unfortunately, we’re all caught in the crossfire of both the explosive speculative growth and the oncoming Great Depression 2.0…
…I just wanted realtime speech recognition and text to speech…
I broke the ice with a lot more of my IRL friends in the last few months and most lean anti-AI with a few exceptions, for example, when your end goal is actually to get slop.
It’s probably the friend group you hang with. Based on your lack of capitalization, I’m guessing you are younger than me (maybe I’m wrong). A lot of young folks don’t see it because the worst AI shit was targeted at them and poisoning their development with AI dependence.
I do have someone close to be who loves AI, but I think they’ll come around when they see the US start paying for its AI missteps. Taking shortcuts only matters because quality and thoroughness isn’t valued. A good email should take at least a few minutes to write and a pro can weave in the appropriate details, requests, confirmations way better than a clanker.
Not sure, my friends hare it online and in real life
As do I.
Because it’s hard to deal with people that are too in love with it and it’s easier to just stay quiet and let them be when you don’t have the proper capacity to articulate with people irl. Just like it’s near impossible to talk against someone being racist as if it’s the most normal thing in the world.
It’s popular here to date AI. Everyone wants to be in the club, to feel included. It’s a hive mind demonstration.
Oh bullshit. There are plenty of good reasons to be against “AI”. Look at any of the multi-paragraph, well-reasoned arguments right in this thread.
They could be made about any technology. Everything is a tool, that can be used for good or evil, by good or evil people, with good or evil intent, with costs and sacrifices. AI is no different, but it’s popular to hate on it because it’s so disruptive. It’s like when automobiles were invented. Or computers. Or the Internet.
People resisting AI are luddites. Dictionary definition, not hyperbole, condescension or disparagement. Just fact.
I feel like I could be running a locally-hosted LLM powered by renewable energy trained on open-source datasets and I’d still get angry comments from someone active in c/piracy
at a local middle school one of the students threw a container of cream cheese at the math teacher after she used an AI generated image in her lesson. from what we heard the students were mocking her incessantly for that. this is definitely a phenomenon in the real world, at least where we live.
still, demographics vary!!! this is certainly an interesting topic, so feel free to go more in depth into your own experiences :)
I think people are still too unaware. As businesses push to use it, people are afraid to speak up about not using it bc "everyone is using it"and they don’t want to be left out.
Most still don’t understand its environmental impact either. If you’re a muscle car guy, you probably don’t understand ballet, or if you’re an artsy person you likely won’t understand most sports and why people are so into them. It’s not that people are dumb, is just not their area of interest outside of (likely) misinformation about how good it is. So because they’re repeatedly told “it’s good and helpful” they just assume that’s how it is, without any real info of behind the scenes.
On most forums or like-minded sites like Lemmy, Reddit, or other similar platforms, it’s way more obvious as is constantly brought up and talked about.
AI industry hate is popular among Gen Z I find
AI didn’t steal jobs or creative work of most normal IRL people, so same as with what happened to artist years ago, they had to navigate the crisis without them, the same is happening to programmers now, people IRL are not exposed on a personal level to as much of the dark side of AI business, only environmental and educational arguments land with them, and they’re not as effective when it gives them access to seemingly free art, info and computer skills they never had
This is how i understood them personally, they don’t see it as their war, just as a war, hopefully with free subsidized system going away they’ll take a harder stance like the rest of us
Probably 1/5 at the most of the people i know actually like llm chatbots and related. Another 2/5 are neutral and the rest loath them for one reason or another. The majority of them are being forced to use it at work for things it sucks at and hate at least that part. Anyway, one theory I have for you is that people in your life that dislike it might just not talk to about it. I actually straight up lost a friend because he for upset that I kept challenging him when he talked about it. The rest I know that like it are not as persistently and enthusiastic about it, but when they do, I just not and smile until it’s over, because I am simply out of energy to deal with it. These people have the same energy as the religious zealots out on the street telling people they’re going to hell and it is exhausting.
I mean in my real life Im not ga ga about it. My wife really liked it at first and I was like well it has its limitations. She started seeing them. All the same it has uses but its hard to say if its uses outweigh its cost.
The internet != irl
Here’s your sign to train and run local models.
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