When you say it's remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness, what do you mean?
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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I think AI is cool, but how people use it can be problematic.
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Fraud. Its easy to over-represent the capabilities and sell a bullshit tool to people.
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Spyware. They require shedloads of data to train so AI companies are doing whatever they can to get data on people.
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Taking Jobs. This is an existential threat to entire professions.
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Spam. LLMs are a bullshit factory, so spamming and astroturfing are easier than ever.
also because its just a way for big tech to harvest your data while stilling content from creators and destroying the planet
also because instead of actually innovating any more tech companies just jam ai slop in everything
Regarding the destruction of the planet, I think the world of Blade Runner is a great example of the future or is there a better one?
Valid question on a community for questions. Tons of legitimate responses from people mostly hyped for the opportunity to shed light on why they think AI is bad. Which seems to be what OP wanted to figure out. Currently negative 25 for the votes on the post. Seems off.
It's a glorified parakeet
lol, you're getting downvoted just for asking, that should sum up the whole argument.
The hate is real here, and IMO most of it is unjustified. There are a few good points that are made:
- Training data was not ethically sourced. Can't get around that, it just wasn't. It was legal-ish, but it wasn't moral. Image generators especially, the art was not willingly given - but IMO if you aren't taking work out of their hands I don't have a major issue with it.
- Same as your issue, AI is being shoved everywhere embodying the "If you're a hammer everything is a nail".
- Privacy concerns as you've talked about, and security.
That being said, I don't have any issues with using it at home, local LLMs, and I'll even say I use it daily to help with coding. I've been coding for 20 years and I have to admit it does help, if you know when to use it. It has sped me up considerably.
Ya why the hell am I being down voted ๐ค
Hive mind.
Other commenter is right, and it's exactly why I don't give much credit to Lemmy's general opinion on AI. If it's so bad that even the discussion around it has to be downvoted, then I don't think they're arguing in good faith. Personally ChatGPT has helped me immensely with my work. It's not the world-changer everyone swears it's going to be, I'm fully out of the hype train - However only a fool would say that it has no value at this point. If engineers are refusing to use it, they're going to be left behind. The real job loss will be for those who refuse to use it altogether. Solid engineers see it as a new tool in their toolbelt and use it as such.
Absolutely correct.
One random example: where I work, CVs are being filtered by an AI before they are opened by a human reducing the volume to a 20% of potentially good candidates. In that 20% there is always someone to hire, so it doesn't matter if a good candidate is lost in the AI filter. Failing to optimize the CV for AI literally means being left behind.
This reminds me of something I heard: AI isn't going to take your job. The person who knows how to use AI is going to take your job.
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