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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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[โ€“] hello_hello@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The anecdote you pointed out is just executives being executives.

Knowing that LLMs are being used to patch holes that may or may not come off under pressure because workers are so heavily exploited and abuse is not a point of confidence in this technology being used properly industry wide in the states.

Also 8B isn't really that much and is far, far away from what the AI companies offer. I think models like deepseek OCR will trivialize this at some point, but I think LLMs as a whole will be a comparative nothing burger while the industry is treating it like the messiah come again.

I think its not useful to target the tech itself like liberals do but to point out how this is part of a larger process of techopolies consuming more and more fake capital, which leads to the workers losing in the end. Micro transactions and gambling, freemium, SaaS, "smart" IOT, reducing right to repair, the applefication of the industry, all fall into the hole of where LLMs are falling into.

[โ€“] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Nothing you said is wrong and i mostly agree. I talked about the 8b parameter one because it can even run on 10 year old hardware and is just as useful as the bigger ones to me. I think it starts to be diminishing returns. Like you said tech capitalists think its the messiah and put too much time money and resources into it. But also lile you said thats a problem with them and their view of the tech not the techbology itself.