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Why do you hate AI? (lemmy.world)
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I work in the AI world and understand a lot of reasons to hate AI (like how every company is trying to ram it down people's throats). However I am genuinely curious why the hate is so popular, and what arguments/opinions people have, and would like to hear the discussion.

Even advertising, which is forced on everyone and disliked, doesn't seem to get as vocal a response for hate.

Why do you hate AI? Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?

After reading comments:

I am thinking it's simply:

  1. Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list.

  2. Be forced into everyone's life and media constantly.

Like a similar psychological phenomenon to when Nickelback was hated, but magnified by being more serious and grounded.

I think that we should also be careful with where the hate is directed, since modelling learning of distributed systems at scale is very essential science and technology to be able to understand biology, physics, neuroscience, etc. The only way humanity currently scales new technologies unfortunately is through the capital machine, and the scale is a necessary component of this science.

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[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

I hate it because the technology is clearly a scam at the moment; "AI" is merely a Frankenstein's Monster of LLMs being warped into a purpose that this software could never fulfill. Any sane person should be able to see how techbros are trying to warp reality and create a post-truth society using their slop generating software. Where they hold all the wealth and influence while the general masses are dependent on them. Eliminating critical thought, obliterating dependence on workers, and breaking the ability for people to meaningfully resist their stupid plans.

I think LLMs are really useful in when applied to correct usecases: Spellchecking/Grammar (user has ultimate descresin to use a correction or not), Real Language searchable databases. However, LLMs should never be used to answer questions themselves, as they cannot think or feel, and are designed to occasionally offer incorrect answers to keep people relying on them. They are also used in Chatbot form to reinforce the worst opinions in their unthinking users, drawing them into LLM induced psychosis states that they can easily be isolated from others in. Making that state enduring, and dangerous for themselves or others.

The push to get this snake oil forced into every place (often where it shouldn't belong) really grinds my fucking gears. My goddamn phone doesn't need a slop engine inside of it to do basic things that digital assistants could do beforehand. Also, the Bots designed to scrap open source code repositories, writing sites, also pisses me off. LLM people don't respect the creative works of others and violate them with bot scraping to the point of DDoSing sites because they get hammered with so many bots scrapping information. The extractive capitalism nature behind the push for LLMs another terrible thing about them.

I don't think my hate for what the technofascist techbros are doing with LLMs is going to die until they final fail, which they fucking will.