You could have picked any name and that’s the one you chose?

It’s evil, full stop. Either it’s a series of expensive, environmentally destructive parlor tricks designed to create a false impression of intelligence and inner life in order to enable the economic displacement of our fellow humans in an already wildly economically stratified world or, worse, it’s an attempt to create and then enslave an actual intelligence with an actual inner life.

Fuck every fucking thing about that and fuck everybody working toward it, including OP. You’re doing evil shit in the world and you don’t understand why people don’t like it. You’re confused and upset that people actually do have morals and beliefs that haven’t been buried under the strain of modern life. You want to steal from others, degrade their daily life, enable systems of coercion and control, then have people treat you nicely because you think you’re special and clever and you deserve to be rewarded because you figured out what the next big thing is ahead of the herd. You’re not, you don’t, and you haven’t.

In top of all of that, it just sucks. When it isn’t making up bullshit, it’s producing the most boring, milquetoast nonsense imaginable. On the bright side it may be wrecking the economy shortly.

So please, do yourself and all of us a favor- find something useful and fulfilling to do with your life and stop building the torment nexus. You get one short ride on this rock, don’t waste it making your life and the lives of others worse.

Why the hell is your username “rapist1”?

Why are you asking here? There are like a million YouTube videos and blog posts about it already, or you can go find a young person in your life and ask them why “Generative AI” is terrible and they’ll be glad to tell you. (e.g. Kane Parsons!)

If you’re asking for expert research into the topic, some names come to mind: Timnit Gebru, Alex Hanna, Emily M. Bender, Karen Hao, Adam Conover, Ed Zitron, Paris Marx, Mo Bitar. I also report regularly on this topic via the Vibe Coded podcast and Cycles Hyped No More newsletter.

The hate has become vocal and common because it’s a fascist technology bankrolled by oligarchs which will cook a planet already on the brink of extreme climate change, bring the open web to its knees, and lead weaker minds into psychosis. But other than that, it’s totally great! 😆

It is destroying the objective sense of truth we have enjoyed since the advent of photography. I hope you understand the scale of that blow to civilized society.

the energy usage for bullshit generators to make up shit for the tecno fascists is my main reason

We have had adblockers for decades so ads aren’t really an issue with a few minutes of effort.

Ads don’t make people unemployed, less intelligent, use up all a city’s water or power supply, and jack up the price of RAM.

I hate it because the technology is clearly a scam at the moment; “AI” is merely a Frankenstein’s Monster of LLMs being warped into a purpose that this software could never fulfill. Any sane person should be able to see how techbros are trying to warp reality and create a post-truth society using their slop generating software. Where they hold all the wealth and influence while the general masses are dependent on them. Eliminating critical thought, obliterating dependence on workers, and breaking the ability for people to meaningfully resist their stupid plans.

I think LLMs are really useful in when applied to correct usecases: Spellchecking/Grammar (user has ultimate descresin to use a correction or not), Real Language searchable databases. However, LLMs should never be used to answer questions themselves, as they cannot think or feel, and are designed to occasionally offer incorrect answers to keep people relying on them. They are also used in Chatbot form to reinforce the worst opinions in their unthinking users, drawing them into LLM induced psychosis states that they can easily be isolated from others in. Making that state enduring, and dangerous for themselves or others.

The push to get this snake oil forced into every place (often where it shouldn’t belong) really grinds my fucking gears. My goddamn phone doesn’t need a slop engine inside of it to do basic things that digital assistants could do beforehand. Also, the Bots designed to scrap open source code repositories, writing sites, also pisses me off. LLM people don’t respect the creative works of others and violate them with bot scraping to the point of DDoSing sites because they get hammered with so many bots scrapping information. The extractive capitalism nature behind the push for LLMs another terrible thing about them.

I don’t think my hate for what the technofascist techbros are doing with LLMs is going to die until they final fail, which they fucking will.

Look at the other posts, we have this question every day. Also: new account and you don’t explain what you do with that AI at work.

My question is: why do you love AI?

Even advertising, which is forced on everyone

Ads are not forced, I block them everywhere. I cannot avoid or block AI.

My biggest issue is the infiltration of AI in the arts. I don’t like being played for a fool and that’s what AI art does. It’s like I’m being tricked or lied to. I find it insulting.

The seemingly constant degradation of available, meaningful information. I’m not sure if it’s the search engines, the website content, or just my imagination, but attempting to obtain reliable information using any other online means seems to be getting harder little by little.

I blame a combination of the willful push towards ai, over-usage for it went it is not needed, and the documented feedback loop of llms now consuming more and more llm generated content leading to less and less actual content, or real content being buried in the generative maelstrom of ai written feces.

Couple that with the llm biases, guardrails and annoying quirks (spelling mistakes, repeated words/code, hallucinating sources, etc) and my trust in anything touched with ai is gone.

Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?

When blockchain was the new hot snakeoil, sure there was the annoying guy at work that would try to buttonhole you and try to get you to invest your life savings in Skibidicoin or whatever, but you could tell them to fuck off and it wouldn’t really be an issue. But there’s no way you can just not participate in the whole “generative AI” thing.

It’s not an offensive sort of vocal hatred. It’s a defensive sort of vocal hatred. If people (and yes, my employer is one of the worse offenders) would quit nonconsentually forcing AI on me, I’d opt out. But as it is, my only option is to take it and then go vent on Lemmy.

Its the sacrifice of everything to feed it when we know none of this is necessary. This shit doesnt need data centers. It could all run locally. Yeah the models will be smaller, but who cares? We dont hate the hallucinatory auto complete as much as we hate the men manipulating society with it. It can be done right, but it has been selected as the harbinger of inequality and dystopia.

I don’t want it to do things for me. It very often eliminates my ability to vet the information I want at a glance.

I also think it’s basically being weaponized as a propaganda machine and surveillance tool and when you add that to the fact that it’s so convincingly sychophantic, that’s just outright dangerous.

It also cuts out meaningful context. A summary of what is likely already a summary isn’t helpful if you plan to actually use the information for anything. Part of how the human brain recalls information is by reading and understanding details and then parsing which details are important enough to remember for recall or use later vs which can be looked up.

Summarization by AI very often removes that context and because this is a learned skill that skill is likely to get rusty over time.

Additionally to that some people use it as a way to offload their need to think and that’s dangerous especially with the feedback loop of agreement it gives. I have seen several examples of AI sychophantically “agreeing” with whatever the user says regardless of whether it is factual or not.

And then of course there’s the fact that it’s often marketed as intelligent with the ability to tell truth, lies, and so on. That marketing isn’t true to how it actually works and what it actually does.

When you add to that the training data that stole the work of actual people, I just don’t see this as a cost the benefit ration where Generative AI can win.