LLM the technology is interesting and impressive. the way companies are shoving it into everything and trying to sell it as a replacement for employees is awful. The way the AI companies are behaving is awful.

The resources used are but one of the problems with the modern uses of AI. Others include:

• Copyright and privacy. AI companies use copyrighted content and private data to train their models. Many companies have terms or user agreements that give them permission to use or sell any data on their systems. They collect data where they can, without regard for ownership, copyright or privacy.
• Fakes. We cannot trust what we see or read. Of course fake news and misinformation has been a problem for years, but genAI has turbocharged it, and now even video is becoming unreliable. We cannot trust anything anymore. Even appreciation of real art suffers because artists get accused of using AI even when it was hand made. Although the impact on politics is the biggest threat.
• Companies force employees to use it, even when employees don't want it and it hurts the quality of their work. AI is often used as an excuse to fire people.
• The AI bubble dominates the economy. This cannot end well.

There are also legitimate and useful ways to use AI, and many of them could be very valuable, but that's not what the industry or society is focusing on right now.

AI would probably be more acceptable if all of these issues were addressed.

No because dead internet theory and it literally makes humans dumber.

Lower reading comprehension. Less able to write or even explain something.

Lower attention.

Lower proficiency in just about anything ai can do. Lower critical thinking.

There is a ton of research on this.

Ai also tells people they are always right and gives them bad advice. Sometimes fatal advice.

The problem is it’s designed to bullshit you. Why would I trust a foundational problem?

Where I think the bulk of the hate comes from is less the tech, but more the political and business elite pushing this tech.

These people are going full mask off trying to delete those they deem the lower class, so much so they are blinded in how much they require people outside the LLMs to maintain society.

LLMs as they are now, are basically the Golden Calf scenario all over again; it is ungrateful people build a statue to claim superiority and mock that which put them in good places.

Any good thing is ruined once it's co-opted by capitalism.
AI and LLMs (In my very very personal and completely subjective opinion) is the coolest shit humanity has ever invented and under the right system would've been unanimously celebrated.
But noooooooo, capitalism had to go and fucking turn a miraculous tool for human creativity and knowledge into a relentless driver of layoffs, corporate slop and copyright theft because some greedy fucks want more money for themselves than they know what to do with.
But, well, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

Absolutely not, I hope.

The impact on the minds and the constant push for the thing for all the wrong reasons are enough for me to keep hating it.

Yes, because of the way its used, the way its presented, and how bad it is.

Different people would hate it for different reasons tho

The most common use for AI seems to be Nazi/Fascist/Republican propaganda. Basically anywhere you go is an endless number of bots pushing to defend neo-nazis, tell people that Trump totally isnt a pedophile, make posts about "If he had just complied he would have lived" etc etc etc.

The subset of people who recognize this, would hate AI because its really only good as a propaganda mill.

The next set would be because of the way its being pushed to replace workers, AI doesnt actually make the remaining workers jobs easier, and it doesnt do work more efficiently, its just another excuse to cut headcounts, make a shittier service and charge more for it.

Finally is because its A) Very often wrong and B) Being used to replace actual critical thinking.

Its a growing problem, especially in academia. Students are coming into college or high school with absolutely no idea how to do actual research, how to write a paper in a logical way, how to follow basic logic chains etc. And there is so much bad information being produced by AI now that its becoming harder and harder to find actual good information. For every doctor telling you to vaccinate kids, there are a dozen AI driven videos that have some person being confidently wrong about everything to do with vaccines.

Are there still students who didnt cheat their way through high school with AI? yes.

But they are becoming more and more rare.

And given how wrong AI usually is (AI is very good at being confidently wrong), this means that we have a whole generation growing up who cant tell the difference between "Measles can kill you if you dont get vaccinated" and "Shooting gay people is a fun weekend activity"

There are 3 reasons people hate AI right now:

1. Being used poorly and mostly resulting in slop, or malicious/unethical/deadly uses, and psychosis
2. Being forced down the public's throat and put into places where it adds no value, job losses, quality drops, plagiarism
3. Datacenter/environmental concerns, part prices

So switching to local AI fixes problem 3 (mostly). But we also need the hype bubble to pop so number 2 goes away. Unfortunately the first problem will be hardest to fix and right now requires the public backlash as new norms are being formed and bad actors need to be called out.

That said, I think we're about 1 to 3 years away from the bubble popping and everything starting to balance out to where AI is treated more like just a tool rather than a genie in a box. The hype will fade out and one or two of the big players will die, but at this point I don't think generative AI use is going away

The trouble is that intellectual property laws are so far behind technology that there's basically no way to implement this technology without fucking over the creators of IP.

Yes. Cause the resource intensity isn't the main problem people have with it.

It's the theft.

This song says it perfectly:

We made AI so we could do the fun stuff
While it could do the dumb stuff
But now it does the fun stuff
And we've become the dumb stuff

It's taking all the interesting and fun creative work, leaving people to make sure all the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted.

It will always be resource intensive since companies are in a dick measuring contest of who can sink the most resources into it. If it was lighter they word simply do more of it

I think its hated because its about building dystopia. We see the datacenters coming up now that are the core infrastructure for global high tech dystopia and people still think it's about chat bots.

History books will wonder why people didn't stop it.

The main problem for me is that it's so confident in it's tone, like that idiot friend who just makes stuff up, but totally believes it. So there's no clue (like you would get with a normal person) that the thing has no clue if what it just wrote is true or not. I could bear it more if it said "I'm not sure, but..." But then if did that then none of the idiot CEOs would buy it, so here we are...

Slop is still slop, and if it was cheaper and less intensive in those ways it would simply be producing way more slop.

Qwen 3.6 27B has similar capabilities to Claude Sonnet 4.6 for coding, but uses about as much power for inference as playing a game on the gaming PC running it, compared to Sonnet that probably runs on like 8 B200s in a data center. If people were mostly just running open weight models on gaming PCs with no tech bros involved, I don’t think we’d be seeing the same level of outrage.

Would be even more. The main harm of AI comes from malicious actors being able to ruin the internet forever with practically undetectable bot spam costing cents to run. Also taking jobs in art, where automation was never possible as efficiency is not what art is valued for.

Resource intensive is one thing, theft is another. Pay all the artists for using their art and we'll begin to talk about whether destroying the planet further is worth it.

No, it would be less hated. Maybe only detested instead of loathed.

It would still be anti-labor and a force multiplier for confident stupidity.

I would still hate it for being jammed into everythibg it doesn't need to be and being a shittier version of searches that used to work and being completely unreliable.

So slightly less.

it’s one segment of the problem but not all of it by far

The hardware and power shortages piss me off in particular because I'm a computers guy. But I also have friends who are writers and digital artists so I hate it for how it impacts them too. So 'as much'? No, but it'd still be hated.

edit: also I play TTRPGs so i hate it for polluting image aggregators too

The question has already been asked yesterday. It makes people lazy and stupid, that's my main issue.

There are still more major problems and risks than I can count on my hands

"AI" is the wrong term, and I hate that it's been implanted. These are prediction models.

Prediction models can be extremely beneficial. Think of weather forecasting, for example. Being able to predict power usage across a grid to prevent failures and increase efficiency and properly deploy resources. Even LLMs can be useful to give you a starting point for discovering information that you are short on. (Don't trust implicitly, double check, but you'll have new search terms to use.)

Remember, too, that the publicly available models are relatively weak. Specialized models with well-curated training data are going to be much better at doing their specific prediction. And we're still in the beginning of this era. It's going to be crazy in ten years.

With regard to resource intensity, it'sy understanding that creation of images and video is what demands the most computing power. And that kind of usage sucks all the way around.

I suspect yes. Even if you take these considerations out of the equation, AI is largely still just a glorified plagiarism machine being shoved down our throats.

If it were truly actually accurate maybe not... but the issue is it is a syncophancy machine being obtusely oversold as capable of multitudes of things it cannot intrinsically do accurately or as well as a person with critical thinking and is being trained on fallible data sets that include human error and now hallucination from LLMs.

If it actually were capable of doing everything the people selling you on AI are trying to get you to believe it would be an incredible tool, but it isnt, and it isnt being treated as a tool.

I think it also does us a disservice as human beings because we are at risk of losing the ability to do our own problem-solving and process of logic bedause it can be offloaded to something else and that imho can manifest as a learned helplessness.

it would reduce it quite a bit. the whole house of cards economic thing not being a thing would help to.

LLM and AI are two circles in a Venn diagram.

Well if that was the case tech bros would just strap 1000000 calculators together, call it mega AI and proceed to claim it is the next best thing that ever happened to humanity and billionaires would fund them. It is these opportunistic vultures that enshittify everything and make them anti-human.

If the AI today always proceeded with the mind set of openness and locality it could still produce very useful tools for a fraction of the environmental impact it causes now but they instead, as always, have chosen thr most aggressive possible method because it can be hyped more.