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I''m curious about the strong negative feelings towards AI and LLMs. While I don't defend them, I see their usefulness, especially in coding. Is the backlash due to media narratives about AI replacing software engineers? Or is it the theft of training material without attribution? I want to understand why this topic evokes such emotion and why discussions often focus on negativity rather than control, safety, or advancements.

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not much to win with.

A fake bubble of broken technology that's not capable of doing what is advertised, it's environmentally destructive, its used for identification and genocide, it threatens and actually takes jobs, and concentrates money and power with the already wealthy.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's either broken and not capable or takes jobs.

You can't be both useless and destroying jobs at the same time

[–] dcoe@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It can absolutely be both. Expensive competent people are replaced with inexpensive morons all the time.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Have you never had a corporate job? A technology can be very much useless while incompetent 'managers' who believe it can do better than humans WILL buy the former to get rid of the latter, even though that's a stupid thing to do, in order to meet their yearly targets and other similar idiotic measures of division/team 'productivity'

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

In corporate world managers get fired for not completing projects

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

it's not ai taking your job, it's your boss. all they need to believe is that language-shaped noise generator can make it work, doesn't matter if it does (it doesn't). then business either suffers greatly or hires people back (like klarna)

[–] DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

And yet AI pulls through and somehow does manage to do both