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[–] 75 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Most people don’t understand vaccines and being afraid of what you don’t understand is completely reasonable.

When you have influencers feeding on that fear and making it grow then it becomes an issue.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    Add to that we’re constantly being lied to it’s hard to know what the truth is and what isn’t unless you deeply research a topic, and honestly:

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Most vaccine hesitant people use Facebook or YouTube to research which compounds the problem.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    This is why people using biased AI to ask questions terrifies me.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

    Maybe the AI will be less salty than the foreign actors. If I had to chose, Id go with AI. AI is a product that needs to be reliable if it is to succeed. Foreign actors hate my guts for exsisting.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    AI is programmed by foreign actors. And on top of that it trains you not to think for yourself and believe what you read. It shuts down critical thought and makes you even easier to manipulate.

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    AI isn't programmed its trained. Just look at all the trouble Elon is having trying to red pill grok.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    And they can choose what data to use to train it. It trains you to rely on it instead of thinking for yourself. Once you rely on it they enshittify and subvert it. It's dangerous to rely on a source of information solely controlled by a billionaire with ulterior motives.

    Look at what Google has become. Or the news/media industry. Get your information from trustworthy sources. AI is not.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Youre talking about curating massive data sets. If that were so easy we wouldn't need AI.

    Just look at the release of the epstein files. All of the resources of the US government and they cant even use Adobe.

    The truth is, and will always have, a liberal bias.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The truth is, and will always have, a liberal bias.

    He who controls the AI feeding you information controls the 'truth'. That's why thinking for yourself and not relying on it is a critical skill.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    AI is a product that needs to be reliable if it is to succeed.

    They’re doing a shit poor job of making it reliable so far.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    "Being afraid of what you don't understand is completely reasonable"

    No it isn't... It's common, but not reasonable, and it's a big factor in so much bad about humanity. We need to teach people to specifically NOT be afraid of stuff they don't understand and instead learn more about that those things, and to never have strong opinions (which includes fear) about things they know nothing or little about.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Being afraid of what you dont understand is instilled to us by our own evolution. We lived tens of thousands of years in a state where unfamiliar berry or strange animal could mean death.

    But you are right. School system svould be better in explaining what vaccines do and how they work and society should be better shooting misinformation down.

    Also instead of ridiculing the antivacciners people should try to be polite and try to help them understand what vaccines are. Being hostile or condesending just makes people to withdraw in to their own safe belives

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Na a bunch of them are actually afraid of the pointy needle.

    Gear of medical debt comes up for some too, but since the covid vaccines were free they had to pretend they weren’t afraid of the needles instead.

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