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[+] -18 points 1 year ago* (27 children)

Right, I see a handful of articles about the same handful of people. The hysteria is the media. Absolutely floored how no one else sees that the media is driving a weird campaign against AI. It's creating opinions.

I'm not saying AI is great. But I am saying fucking media is doing a thing and more people should be asking why

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why is the media reporting on a thing that’s happening?

    Why are multiple sites writing about the same topic?

    Must be an anti-AI conspiracy.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    It's happening in the same way that caravans of illegal immigrants are approaching the border

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know, trump supporters say the same shit when you tell them they're acting like clowns too

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  • [+] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    Fear mongering at its best but honestly, the fear of AI is warranted. Especially when goat fuckers like Musk are central in their creation.

    Grok anyone?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Yea I agree fully that having individuals that own the one or two platforms is bad.

    I don't think much of the fear and panic is warranted though.

    Honestly view these headlines the same way you'd view headlines about any other bullshit hysteria that media drums up. It's all so weirdly familiar.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    This is so similar to crypto to me. The base technology and idea is great but many of the implementations are problematic and I have high hopes for it with free software, not for profit, and more boring uses around it.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Ok good example. The left took a hard stance. The right adopted it. A lot of right wing people made a lot of money with it regardless of its practicalness. They used that money to invest in each other.

    The left somehow has become Luddites and they're falling behind yet don't see how that mentality is holding hobbling their progress

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Falling behind in what way? Financial advantage? I’m not sure that the left have ever had that. How would adopting AI aid the left’s cause?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    He's correct. Leftists and Liberals (myself included) see the dangers of A.I. and have been hardcore against its current stage of implementation while moderates make shitty AI cat videos and MAGA use it for deepfakes and other means of misinformation at the touch of a button.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I agree that the left and liberals are broadly opposed to AI, and the right dove in headfirst. I just don’t get how lacking the ability to spew shitty cat videos and deepfakes means we on the left are hampering our own progress.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    One of my buddies hates everything AI because it "impedes the integrity of art." Went on a tirade about AI art being shit and everyone who uses it being shit as well.

    (This as I made an AI threesome of Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin. I also made a ladies night with AOC, Hilary, and Kamala.)

    But realistically, many on the lefts deal with AI is one part virtue signaling and many parts against how AI is being used to displace white collar workers with substandard service (Expedia, health care, etc).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah its very similar to graft and extortion in that way. The left really needs to get onboard.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I don't necessarily think the MM is intentionality going against AI, they're just following what drives engagement and the mainstream tide is turning against AI (again, AI winter 3.0, here we go).

    However, I did see that "AI causes delusions" article in the NYT together with the very hilarious conflict of interest notice: "The NYT is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement."

    So who knows? It is entirely in the MM's interests to both write about AI (hot topic, much engagement) and also to make the AI companies look incompetent, reckless, and dangerous because that bolsters their cases against them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    no one else sees that the media is driving a weird campaign against AI

    Media criticism tends to fly out the window the moment the narrative aligns with someone’s personal views. Echo chambers can be hard to recognize once you’re inside one. If I didn’t come to Lemmy, I’d barely even know that there are people who’ve made hating AI their whole identity - they seem to be nowhere to be found in the real world.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Right most people I meet day to day are maybe a bit interested but don't care much.

    To me this is a chicken vs egg situation. I think a lot of people see this as the media responding to people.

    I think it's the other way around and I'm trying to understand why. To me, it looks certain that the media is agenda setting with AI. I watched this with the war on terror, anti immigration views, Ebola, imaginary waves of crime that never existed. I can see the headlines, the tone, the framing are all so similar. I just don't understand why. It's a powerful tool, my default opinion is always that this technology does balance some power in society and so by keeping it as a tool of the rich while the rest reject it is important culturally.

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