Probably the only beneficial AI are open source. Are there such any?
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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I think there was once ... but the billionaires got to it.
Luckily, the United States is a democratic society, where the opinion of the majority has tangible influence on policy.
And most of those are probably higher ups at the big corporations.
Trust me. I know. The more you go up the ladder the more deluded they become.
Almost like AI psychosis is a reflection of corporate yes man psychosis.
US citizens are far less optimistic about AI than about Donald fucking Trump.
15% of Americans are trying to sell something AI.
Nah, it's probably just 10% to 12%. There are always some people that will say the most absurd things in a poll, either for trolling or because they got something wrong.
Might just be the people who fall on their knees to suck off billionaires
You could ask if elephants run beaver pelt farms on the moon, and you'll still get some people saying yes
There's definitely a can vs should conversation that our society seems incapable of.
"wow look at this terrible thing we're collectively doing. It's a shame we can't just... you know... not do that but oh well."
In the Alpha Cenauri game there was a wonder you could build called The Longevity Vaccine. If you were a planned economy two sad citizens were made happy at every city. Amazing. If you were Green economy it made happy one per base. Amazing.
If you were capitalists, the base that built it made a bunch of money and nothing else. It's a lot of money, but isn't global.
It's the only wonder like that. And I've been thinking of it more lately.
We don't like it, we don't think that it is good for us, but we still use it.
Sounds like drugs to me, no?
Idk my boss never required me to use drugs.
Put up a leaderboard
Congratulations to Kyle for doing all the drugs! Better luck next month everyone else
Drugs make you productive, so in some places like south asia employees are praised for doing them.
Ugh. We have a leaderboard and now in our self employee reviews we have to answer:
How has AI improved your productivity? Where do you see future opportunities?
And I have to make something up. I can't answer that it hasn't helped. I don't want to get fired.
Eh, drugs tend to start out fun, then stop being fun when they take over your life. AI sucks balls right out of the gate.
Management at the horrible mega-corp I work at is extremely frothy about AI. They just did a big all-hands where they said they want 100% adoption of AI. Whatever that means.
I wonder what the results would have been if they hadn't combined "very" and "somewhat" results. There's a lot of nuance there that would still be poorly reflected with a gradient, so removing it seems like an odd decision.
Most of the people I talk to about AI seem to either think it has potential but is often being poorly utilized, or they dislike it entirely. I don't know too many people who are unequivocally positive about it. Maybe they're right-wingers.
Ah yes
Pew poll
Wonder what the numbers would be on the Internet positively impacting society, as AI has a lot of the same harms and benefits of the Internet. It gives people easy access to a lot more information, but it also gives them access to a lot more bullshit.
Even after we've had years for it fully develop IDK if I'd say the Internet is positively impacting society.
10 years ago i would have said the internet was absolutely a net positive. The internet today is not like what it used to be. But i think that's way more because of late stage capitalism than it is the concept/technology of the internet itself. LLMs as a concept/technology have very few use cases that can positively impact society imo.
Wonder what the numbers would be on the Internet positively impacting society, as AI has a lot of the same harms and benefits of the Internet.
This is a ridiculous comparison. GenAI has practically zero use case compared to the internet and it's benefits to economic and logistical planning and communications. How the hell do you even come up with this take? We have already reached diminishing returns on advancement, meanwhile all these datacenters are massive resource drains with literally 0 benefit to society.
I think it's a good comparison.
The main benefit of the Internet is that it gives easy access to near limitless information. The basic Google use case of the Internet, I type in a question and get a link to an answer, whether that's a reddit thread, stack overflow, wiki article etc.
Whether you like it or not people are increasingly using LLMs for these sort of basic "factual" questions. Yes they can lie/hallucinate, so can someone on reddit, but most of the time they are correct and that's good enough for most people.
The problem with both is when we take them to seriously. It is common knowledge that both LLMs and the Internet can lie or bullshit you. When you lose sight of that fact and believe an internet community or personality or an LLM knows the world better then your own sense, it becomes a problem. And honestly the people who get AI psychosis are far less dangerous to society then some racist asshole who lost his mind on 4chan.
People like you are the reason people hate AI. Both are painfully confidently wrong.