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[–] 56 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I think people hate AI because:

  • it's trained on their stolen works
  • they get no credit or payment when derivative works are made
  • it let's business owners threaten to dismiss more workers (who need to work to live, since there are no safety nets in place)
  • when workers DO get displaced by AI, the AI does a shoddier job (enshittifying products and processes)
  • further enables and accelerates the concentration of capital to the absolutely-most-wealthy-people

I could go on and on.

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  • [+] [S] -37 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    These are implementation critiques

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Data centers needed for AI are driving up electricity costs to surrounding residents, they use ungodly amounts of water to cool the systems and dump that now hot water back into the ecosystem, causing ecosystem collapse or into the municipal wastewater process, overloading treatment plants, children are using it to do their homework, potentially harming their ability to critically read and write (this is still being studied, and most evidence is anecdotal or still in review).

    Electrical and water usage - Penn State U

    https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/ask-expert-are-data-centers-driving-my-electricity-bills

    Other electrical effects of AI and water demand - DW

    https://www.dw.com/en/the-hidden-environmental-cost-of-ai-data-centers/a-78789889

    Deep dive into water usage by data centers - University of Georgia

    https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/TP121/how-data-centers-impact-surface-and-ground-waters/

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    People don't hate food, air, and water because they have access to it.

    This argument is beyond stupid and classist af.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    You eating prime rib tonight?

    What high dollar scotch you cracking into?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I can't afford a cybertruck; I still don't want one and think they are stupid as fuck. AI would be the same.

    I also need to ask: Are you hurt? This is the kind of showerthought one would have after slipping and hitting their head in there.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't have access to it, still hate it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    You sure? I think it has something to do with the mind-boggling amount of ecological and economic damage it has done to our world.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    People hate private jets too.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You need a plumber, your shower is broken

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Loss leaders are a thing. The problem is the ai companies don't have the high margin alternative products to offset the losses.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    No, I think I'd actually hate it a lot more like that

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

    You can remove the "ish" from your username

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I think the only salty person is you

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Wilful ignorance is the worst ignorance.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We have access to it, so we can see that it's shit. Yes.

    If we didn't have access to it, and didn't know anything about it, then we couldn't have a fair opinion on its quality. And, yes, by definition it would be seen as luxurious.

    I'm not sure what your point is.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    This is called a scarcity mindset. It's the same reason that luxury brands can charge ridiculous amounts of money for shit that looks ugly as hell.

    Yes, a good number of people have this mindset.

    And yes, they're all wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Nah.

    I look at the people letting LLMs do all their thinking for them and think "what the fuck are they even doing?". I want none of that shit.

    -- Frost

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    I respectfully disagree but I upvoted because it is a quality shower thought

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