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YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 months ago (37 children)

Hank Green has earned the right, with me anyway, to have his point of view heard. And frankly he has more credibility with me than the garden variety pitchfork-wielding anti-AI mob. I think Hank is a person who finds AI interesting and sees upsides as well as downsides. But the aforementioned mob is not interested in anything other than the emotional catharsis of railing against something they hate.

Now ask me if the mob is in the room with us, because it probably is.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (29 children)

    His AI use caused him so many problems in his private life that his family had to intervene. His point of view is “This technology has had a negative impact on my life and the lives of the people I care about”.

    Your pro-AI spiel is a bit tone deaf here

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (22 children)

    But they didn't say anything pro-AI. At most they were anti-anti-AI mob, which is just reasonable, as is with any "mob". And I read mob here as mindless parrots that keep repeating talking points and hating for the sake of conformity.

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  • [+] -17 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Being anti-anti something is being pro-something. That’s the beauty of the double negative.

    Also that’s just a very pro-AI user, so the intent can be inferred

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    You're conflating two different somethings. Anti-AI mob is not the same as AI. Being against mob mentality doesn't make you inherently pro AI.

    It's possible to be pro or anti mob mentality and AI in various different combinations.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    That's... Not how any of that works?! You can be anti chat bot llm, anti anti ai mob hater, and pro llm science and research bot.

    There's more to the tech then just the chat bots the anti ai mob dipshits all seem to think of when llms come up.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That’s exactly how that works lmao. “Anti” means “opposite”, not some neutral third thing

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    anti-anti-AI ≠ pro-AI, it assumes there's only anti-AI and pro-AI and nothing in between.
    And the wording was clearly about the anti-AI mob as opposed to people who understand the dangers and benefits of AI. It's similar to the difference between a Gamer™ and a gamer.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The user is not in between, they’re pro AI.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    So? That has nothing to do with the argument at hand, it's an ad hominem.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    You think that a persons established pro-ai bias is not related to the inference of the bias of their ai-related comment?

    I… disagree. That would be directly related.

    And it’s of course not ad hominem in the slightest because an ad hominem is an attack on a person instead of an argument. That’s not happening here.

    Your comment reads like a high schooler who just had their first class on argument and logic and hasn’t quite got a firm understanding of either yet.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I’m anti anything mob. The fucking groupthink on certain issues is real.

    I’m also anti people who make shit up and then try to sell it as a long strings of “inferences.”

    And after having AI shoved down my throat at work for two years while my teammates get laid off, I’m pretty anti AI too. At most I have direct experience with it that teaches me it has some uses, like summarization.

    You’re full of shit. You’ve been told. And you know it by now. But you’ll probably bleat on with more of the same because it’s all you know how to do. Proceed, I guess.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    lol sure pal. At least stick to your guns next time.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Brave showing, bravo. I’m glad someone came out of the woodwork to illustrate the monomaniacal mob behavior I was talking about. You did just perfect.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago*

    Hmm I don’t remember mobbing anyone. All I did was reiterate what the man himself said, in the face of you trying to spin it as more pro than it was.

    When the guy says his AI use was causing him problems and he regrets it and wants to make a change, I believe him. Simple as.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Being anti-anti something is being pro-something.

    Blatantly reductive. "Anti anti AI mob" means to be against the mob that is against AI, not to be for AI. Regardless of whether or not AI is a net harm, moral panics certainly are. You can oppose the moral panic while being for, against, or neutral towards AI generally.

    If you need to fuck around and misrepresent your opponents' arguments, you're not doing it right.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    You're on Lemmy... any statements about AI, Musk, trump, McConnell, etc that aren't over-the-top against them will be met with downvotes.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Okay but why would anyone be anything but over-the-top against anything on your list?

    I mean, like, everything you listed is dog shit.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Because sometimes in life there are nuances and it is possible to mention one of those topics in a neutral manner, but the absolute hostility held here against anyone who tries to have a conversation beyond "_____ sucks ass!" is exhausting.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There wasn't an intervention, he asked them about his AI use in response to the outrage and they agreed he'd been using it unhealthy.

    Seemed to me more along the lines of "do I have too much salt?" , "yeah you should cut back" ; Then "your coke problem is tearing this family apart"

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    He said they “did not pull any punches” which implies it was a more blunt conversation than you’re suggesting.

    Hank Green himself describes his relationship with AI the same way you would an addiction, and specifically mentions the dopamine reaction driving his use of it to a point where he became overwhelmed by it.

    He’s not describing a casual discussion about table salt, he’s literally describing a drug/alcohol addiction.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I said nothing pro-AI. But by accusing me of that, you reveal where your own bias (and defensiveness) lies. So thanks for that.

    You’re also exaggerating the facts. They didn’t stage an intervention. He turned to his wife and brother and said “do you think my AI use is unhealthy?”

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago*

    You’ve said plenty pro-AI lol. You don’t have to get so defensive about it, just own your position.

    I’ve exaggerated nothing. Hank himself said he’s spoken to both his wife and brother about his AI use and said they “didn’t pull any punches”, which implies there was a blunt conversation about it, if not two.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You sound like you lick Grok and Gippitys silicon balls.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Ok, I guess you were too busy fondling Gr0ks and gipeettys balls to type out a constructive response. Are these how you'd like them to participate in your silicon fetish?

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