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[–] 93 points 1 day ago (16 children)

And conversely, many people seem to have a "the moment someone says something nice about AI I dismiss them as either evil or an ignoramus" stance.

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  • [–] [S] 63 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    Many people on Lemmy will start to crash out the moment you suggest AI is anything other than pure evil

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  • [–] 30 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    It’s not the algorithms people oppose, it’s the way they are trained within a capitalist system (infringement of many copyrights without compensation), they way they are being marketed as a living mind that can basically befriend us and take a mental load off of us (they can’t and it’s problematic to humans who allow them to try), and they way they’re being used an excuse to buy up the wntire world’s capacity for computing so that rich tech oligarchs can force us all onto the cloud services for all computing in the future.

    I think if at the very least they weren’t bulldozing people’a home and poisoning their drinking water in order to forever capture all technology and then rent it back to us we might have a more favorable view of the possibilities, but so far Big Tech has done almost nothing but try to find ways to make individuals and enterprise addicted to their Mechanical Turk in order to take advantage of us.

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  • [–] 5 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

    I haven't been keeping track in any formal sense, but it feels like it's gradually getting a bit better here. There's still a very strong anti-AI current running through most of the Threadiverse but I've been getting upvotes along with the downvotes and there are a few dedicated AI-related communities too. Maybe as the population grows it's just naturally getting more diverse.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    And these communities should be banned.

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  • [–] 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    As long as nobody is being like a personalized salesman of AI and getting it in everyone's face, I think it's okay. I still find AI as a useful tool. But I also don't see AI as an everything-solve-all kind of tool. It has its limits and I've seen them by experience.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    I mean it's kind of undoubtedly a miraculous and game changing technology. Anyone who isn't completely blown away by it doesn't realize the implications imho

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago

    The problem about AI right now is multi-pronged.

    But the main key problems are;

    It's costing people's jobs. In a way, this is of no surprise because before AI, there were shitty bosses and CEOs. They were always there and they will always find any excuse, if any, to release you from your job. AI only merely accelerated it.

    Data Centers/AI Plants take too much water. I like how people conveniently forget today, how much water companies like Coca-Cola and Nestle actually take while turning around, bottling said water, just to sell it back to you. And if anyone has watched How It's Made, you can find arguments everywhere in that series, about how much resources are taken to make everything we use.

    My point is, is a lot of arguments that people bring up against AI, there's such a wedge of counter-arguments in them that negate the problem of AI itself. It's just demonized because people are disappointed that AI isn't magically fixing roads and potholes, I guess, I don't know. Society doesn't know what they truly want anymore out of anything, it's just the feeling in the moment of the current 'I want said thing' dominates their mindsets.

    But the actual problem with AI shocks no one - shitty CEOs.

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