Unpopular Opinion

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/uncommon/p/1236478/a-lot-of-anti-ai-people-seem-very-illogical-in-their-concerns-and-how-they-address-it-an

Before I lay my opinion here, let me say that I know that most closed-source AI companies have terrible business ethics and some of the AI companies seem to be corrupt. But that doesn't change my opinion about how people choose to deal with AI dangers that they have opinions about in illogical manner.

I understand that AI companies keep saying bullshit to bump their stocks price which feels dumb for the vast majority of tech power users.

I also understand that garbage journalism is increasingly trying to collect clicks from Anti-AI people even if they downright don't provide facts but rather keep pushing conspiracy theories and uniformed opinion pieces.

Yet, I find it weird how people deal with their perceived AI dangers and concerns.

IMO, AI is a technology and you can't ignore technologies like they were never invented. You deal with them and react to their developments accordingly.

You can basically just regulate it(by your country government) and adopt to it as a person.

For me a lot of Anti-AI people seem to act like conspiracy theorists in terms of how illogical they are.

I wish I could tell them that:

• Protesting in front of for profit AI companies is useless, pushing your government to regulate them is more productive;
• Not everything touched by AI is rotten and blessed by the devil. furthermore, not everyone should become Anti-AI as you are. If a open source project used AI it does not mean that it will collapse on itself and be full of bugs and security holes for example. Some open source projects use it and they seem to be doing great, other don't and it's ok. If a company decided that AI might fit a use case they need they won't necessarily go bankrupt and fail because of this;
• Thinking about the creation process of any media piece rather than the quality of it seems also stupid. To give an example about how this harms the artists, take a look at David Revoy comics. He get accused of being AI artist Every time one of his comics get posted on social media(Reddit and other social websites) or chat spaces(despite being one of the rare artists who create open-source comics);
• Creating AI free spaces without a need does not benefit anyone. A good example to show my point is the memes community on Lemmy. The community banning AI doesn't benefit anyone and doesn't really have any point than labelling it as "AI free" space without any need.

Overall, I think it would be more logical for Anti-AI people to be risk oriented rather than technology oriented in their concerns and to understand how to really address them strategically and practically rather than waste their time and energy in acting on a theatre for no one.