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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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[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

It makes sense when you consider what is the technology being used for and why. They try to appeal a lot to your everyday people: "Look we gave you access to being able to create art on the level of professionals, we gave you access to so much information and made it easy to access. People will tell you to not use it because they're jealous, don't listen to them, they'll tell you the art is bad because they envy you."

The people behind the tech see both incentive for profit, but also a means to become the new cultural establishment. The people who use the kind of tech either do it cause it's just the trend being pushed now, they want to make money or they wanted to learn/create in the past already, but for whatever reason gave up and now see this as a chance to pursue where they once failed.

Mind you I am a disabled artist and I try to keep my biases to myself when approaching subjects on modern technological developments, but there's no such thing as an unbiased views so I thought i should mention that this tech has already effected me negatively.