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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -1 points 11 hours ago

There's a lot of anti-AI propaganda coming from the same AI corporations and governments trying to push for regulations that will grant them a monopoly on this tech and limit the development and usage for people. Many brought up multiple reasons why they dislike AI, the same arguments could be used for other technologies and services but personally i've never seen anyone here on lemmy picking a fight against military data centers or videogames industry for causing pollution.

The most upvoted comments hint at big techs being a problem but seem to fail to acknowledge that issues caused by "AI" are mostly caused by the corporations and evil characters behind these.