▲ 109 ▼ American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 1 year ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children) I find this false equivalence pretty disgusting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -7 points 1 year ago (1 child) That might actually reinforce my point permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago No, it really doesn't. You can't just say "I bet this opinion will be unpopular" and then when it does, in fact, turn out to be unpopular make the leap to say "this just proves how correct my opinion was" No, it only proves how unpopular it was. Even if all the same comparisons could be made between why people dislike genAI and why people dislike immigrants (they can't, btw), one of those things involves flesh and blood human beings. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -7 points 1 year ago (1 child) That might actually reinforce my point permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago No, it really doesn't. You can't just say "I bet this opinion will be unpopular" and then when it does, in fact, turn out to be unpopular make the leap to say "this just proves how correct my opinion was" No, it only proves how unpopular it was. Even if all the same comparisons could be made between why people dislike genAI and why people dislike immigrants (they can't, btw), one of those things involves flesh and blood human beings. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago No, it really doesn't. You can't just say "I bet this opinion will be unpopular" and then when it does, in fact, turn out to be unpopular make the leap to say "this just proves how correct my opinion was" No, it only proves how unpopular it was. Even if all the same comparisons could be made between why people dislike genAI and why people dislike immigrants (they can't, btw), one of those things involves flesh and blood human beings. permalink fedilink source parent