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Why do you hate AI? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rapist1@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
 

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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[โ€“] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I work in the AI world

False. There is no "AI". There is nothing to hate because it doesn't exist. I hate the grift that "AI" exists. The grift that you actively promote.

Since "AI" doesn't actually exist, the grift is able to claim ANYTHING as "AI". This arbitrary collection of disparate technologies should be judged by their own merit. They're lumped together simply to mislead and take advantage.

Furthermore, like any technology under capitalism, these technologies will inevitably be used for theft and violence as we've already seen. Here are a few examples:

  • LLMs - It's cool to have an autocomplete chatbot until starts making kill lists.
  • Computer Vision - It would be cool to find tumors but it's primarily used to find and kill people on the other side of the planet.
  • Image filters (yes people call this "AI" lol) - It's cool to make my photos silly but it'll be used to exploit and harass women, etc.
  • Big Data/Compute - It would be cool if this was used to better humanity but instead it will be used to profit the few from surveillance, incarceration, genocide, planetary destruction, etc. As we've already overwhelmingly witnessed.

They promise the good stuff so they can profit from the worst stuff. That's fundamental to the grift.

I recommend searching the comm for similar questions as this is nothing new.

[โ€“] rapist1@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

For your first point about me claiming "AI": this channel is literally called "fuck AI", I don't care what it's called, I'm just using the common language.

Your next points are about some negative companies/uses like palantir. Since you probably don't hate other technologies that have bad uses as well as good ones, I am wondering what you think is especially bad about neural networks (did you form your own opinion or are you jumping on some identity?); hell, I don't even know what you mean by kill lists for LLMs, and given the popularity I'm going to guess people find much use for them that aren't this or bad.