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Why do the vast majority of people on Lemmy seem to HATE AI? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve been on Lemmy for about 2 weeks now, and I’ve noticed a trend:

The VAST majority of posts that mention AI in any manner are some dig or criticism or some other negative commentary, and the rare ones that have anything positive to say about it almost always have negative whatever-Lemmy’s-version-of-karma-is.

I get that AI isn’t without its problems, especially Grok with that “Mechahitler” nonsense a bit ago, but there seems to be particular vitriol here. I’m genuinely curious to know why people hate it so much here.

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[–] noodles@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lots of good answers, but I'll throw another in: pollution of the Internet with slop. I'll search for e.g. what good flashlights with 'n' features are and there will be hundreds of near-identical listicles that are clearly hallucinated. I'll try to look at a local restaurant's menu and it will bring me to a fabricated webpage with ai generated images of food (with Wonder brand Hont Doug bundts yesterday!) and a menu that is very obviously factually incorrectly.

There have always been low-effort fake listicles and bad information, but it used to be easy to avoid the couple links per search or to refine the search to be specific enough to rule them out. Now I'm not convinced there aren't websites that generate poor quality content on the fly based on whatever I just searched.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Absolutely this. AI slop is ruining everything I used to love about the internet. Easy access to information was its greatest strength, but it becomes useless, when you have to dig through heaps of AI generated bullshit, that is completely unreliable.

Can't even google cooking recipes anymore.