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Anyone else notice that more conservative-leaning people are much more receptive to "AI"? (hexbear.net)
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As a general observation, I find that the more right-leaning a person is, the more they tend to be receptive to the usage and adoption of "AI". And inversely, the more left-leaning, the more skeptical.

I pin this on the notion that most conservatives hate workers, are happy to see them laid off, etc. Whereas more progressive folks tend to see value in what human beings do.

Moreover, communists like ourselves almost completely dismiss the plagarism slop machines as being utterly misanthropic, not to mention flying in the face of the labour theory of value.

As an anecdote, I work with a conservative guy who puts EVERYTHING through Grok. Almost everything he types/says to his team mates he gets Grok to write for him. Everything he "fact-checks" goes through Grok. He views it as totally impartial, without bias, etc.

On the other hand, I think more critically-minded folks are prone to seeing the inherent bias in these chatbot slop machines, and view them with skepticism in the same way they view all other institutions in society.

Clearly I am generalising a lot here, but has anyone else made the same or similar observation?

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i seriously think it's mostly because of Silicon Valley making the hard right turn and being "adopted" into the greater Conservative Ecosystem

it's taken some effort but somehow they have fused "traditional values" with this all gas no brakes everything AI and tech ideology. i mean just look at Thiel fusing his version of Christianity with transhumanism

it's obviously all for self serving reasons; they want money and the right has all the money now. and since most right wingers are basically unthinking automatons they just go with the flow and the flow says AI is good. boss says it's good so it must be.

plus they hate artists because artists are woke and gay or whatever. but at the top, it's obviously a hatred of workers and humanity in general, which has just filtered down. the average right wing prole doesn't like to think about that part and just ignores it or assumes because they use AI they will not be ground into bio-diesel to fuel some Yarvinist data center.