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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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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

AI as an accessibility tool can be prettt cool.

If it was being sold as an accessibility tool, I would champion it.

But the greedy fucks are selling it as a replacement for expertise.

I've spent decades teaching everyone who will listen "the computer can help, but it does so without any understanding".

But all the tech bros had to do was secretly pass one call in 100 to some random human worker in the 3rd world, and half of everyone is convinced that computers are smarter than humans, now.

The real source of my frustration is that most people are idiots, lol. And I should know that by now.

Anyway, I'm glad you have a tool that helps, and that you aren't attributing godlike properties to it, or selling it hard to idiots as something it isn't.