If they hate technology in general, they're luddites.

If they hate AI for all the good, legitimate reasons to hate the current "AI" trend, they're just rational.

Thanks to this post, I'm going to adopt the title of Butlerian!

I worked in telecom for years, and recently left because my company decided to automate out a bunch of positions by using their shiny new AI. It suggested carrying 300 Amps at 50 volts (DC) several hundred feet with 14 gauge cable. (Electricians, go ahead and laugh.)

I went back to school, learning IT support. Most of my classmates are fresh out of high school, and they're all using Chat GPT like my generation uses Google. But instead of googling the answer and then figuring out how to make it work and testing the results, they just stop.

Chat GPT says to use this config? They use it. Of course it doesn't work.

Over and over, I have classmates asking me why their Copliot generated code isn't giving them the right answer, or why their server process is failing to start.

I fear for the safety of a world where the tech support is provided by people who never learned how the tech runs, never learned to read, test, experiment, fail, and try again...

So yeah, Butlerian. points at my face

Proud luddite here. The original luddites destroyed machinery owned by capitalists which threatened their jobs. The choice was either destroy the machines, or stand by and become unable to feed your family while a rich man gets richer.

I have no opposition to technology which is used for good, and whose control is placed in the hands of the workers. Your self-hosted AIs are fine, although I do ask that you only use energy intensive processes if you have solar panels. After all, this planet is the only one we've got. At our current rate of pollution, soon the world will only be inhabitable to AI.

But I downvote anything promoting corporate AI designed to replace people's jobs. I am all for replacing human jobs, if the humans get to relax and live comfortable lives afterward. But I am against replacing jobs if we choose to have a society where you need a job to live. That's not nature, it's a choice we make as a society. The minute you automate someone's job, you do necessarily admit that society doesn't need that person's work to get by. The only reason they shouldn't get to put their feet up and take it easy is political. And politically, we have decided instead what happens is they die. That's unacceptable, and until it changes, we can't afford to have job replacing machines.

Butlerian Jihadis

"People who used to make a living doing erotic commissions"

John/Sarah Conner

AIn'ts

I do believe the term is "luddite", or "luddA.I.te" if you want to be hip and cool.

I don't know. What do you call people who laugh at you behind your back?
People laughed at Picasso and Monet and Michelangelo and Keith Haring etc.

Tbh, luddite fits really well considering they only became associated with being Anti Tech once they started burning down Lace making factories since the advent of the Lace machine started taking high paying craftsmanship jobs away because a machine could produce what they did for cheap. Which, is as close to a perfect match as you're going to get in the real world

Technocogitotomist

I still call them Luddites. Their arguments are so similar, half the time I'm not user if I'm a victim of a troll.

Using Greek, Misautotechnicist.

Auto- Self

Tehkne- Skill/craft

-ic of, belonging to

Autotechnic = Technology that is of itself.

Miso- hate

Misautotechnic - Hates technology that is of itself.

Misautotechnia - Hatred towards technology of itself.

And lastly turn it into an idea...

-ism idea of

-ist person/thing of the ism/idea

Misautotechnicism - The idea of hatred toward technology of itself.

Misautotechnicist - One who subscribes to that idea. I.e. A personwho shows hatred toward technology that is able to act on its own.

IAphobe since they are scared of the AI