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Why do the vast majority of people on Lemmy seem to HATE AI? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve been on Lemmy for about 2 weeks now, and I’ve noticed a trend:

The VAST majority of posts that mention AI in any manner are some dig or criticism or some other negative commentary, and the rare ones that have anything positive to say about it almost always have negative whatever-Lemmy’s-version-of-karma-is.

I get that AI isn’t without its problems, especially Grok with that “Mechahitler” nonsense a bit ago, but there seems to be particular vitriol here. I’m genuinely curious to know why people hate it so much here.

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Been around long enough to know that we are being sold on a lie that's real purpose is extracting wealth at the fastest rate possible from the lower 99% while providing unknown risks and low likelihood of benefits to most of the population. The only "AI" that currently works well is a very fast database searcher. It is better than a human at that task but requires humans to create the database and all the information in it first in order for it to work. The only "AI" that seems to be possibly "thinking" for itself is hopeless, wrong, and/or very destructive.