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Why do the vast majority of people on Lemmy seem to HATE AI? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I’ve been on Lemmy for about 2 weeks now, and I’ve noticed a trend:

The VAST majority of posts that mention AI in any manner are some dig or criticism or some other negative commentary, and the rare ones that have anything positive to say about it almost always have negative whatever-Lemmy’s-version-of-karma-is.

I get that AI isn’t without its problems, especially Grok with that “Mechahitler” nonsense a bit ago, but there seems to be particular vitriol here. I’m genuinely curious to know why people hate it so much here.

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[–] 16 points 4 months ago (7 children)

And who owns the giant public AIs that are doing all the damage? Capitalists.

You won't find nearly as many people in here shitting on running a local version of some small model in your own house to take care of your own needs. Obviously somebody's going to complain because somebody will complain about fucking everything...

But all of the capture and devour capitalism is at the heart of every public AI right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Of course. But then the issue is not AI is it? It’s like always capitalism. Like the first ever AI research and development happened in the USSR. They hoped that by striving to create intelligence/consciousness we would learn more about ourselves and what it even means to be intelligent and conscious.

    AI is not evil, it’s not bad or destroying the world. Capitalism is destroying the world.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    What they are calling AI is not evil in itself. But it is being used as a weapon against the environment, artists, progress, education, and internet discourse. That is where the hate comes from.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why are people pretending all those issue appeared with AI? You think the environment would be less fucked without AI? Artists? Education?

    It’s like people complaining about smartphones making kids depressed. Like growing up during an apocalypse wouldn’t be the main cause? Perhaps?

    These are the results of the long sharp road of capitalism. With or without “AI” we would be fucked.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Literally yes to all of your stupid questions. Any others?

    nobody is saying these attacks are solely caused by AI. but shoehorning it into every place of work , every classroom, every TV set and youtube video is making things worse.

    Nobody was running dozens of fucking diesel and natural gas generators to keep their minecraft server up, you fucking potato.

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