I work in the AI world and understand a lot of reasons to hate AI (like how every company is trying to ram it down people’s throats). However I am genuinely curious why the hate is so popular, and what arguments/opinions people have, and would like to hear the discussion.
Even advertising, which is forced on everyone and disliked, doesn’t seem to get as vocal a response for hate.
Why do you hate AI? Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?
After reading comments:
I am thinking it’s simply:
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Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list.
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Be forced into everyone’s life and media constantly.
Like a similar psychological phenomenon to when Nickelback was hated, but magnified by being more serious and grounded.
I think that we should also be careful with where the hate is directed, since modelling learning of distributed systems at scale is very essential science and technology to be able to understand biology, physics, neuroscience, etc. The only way humanity currently scales new technologies unfortunately is through the capital machine, and the scale is a necessary component of this science.
AI slop is bad, I don’t think anyone disagrees including all the people with careers in AI. I think the reason why it doesn’t stop anyone is because it’s seen as a byproduct of technological knowledge… basically the cat of how to generate such things is out of the bag, and the point of that cat was the knowledge of learning complex data. As I mentioned on another comment, you need to have this knowledge to begin to understand things like the brain as a system
The people funding its development want it specifically for this property though, and have artificially boosted its development and fought against its regulation to maximize this damage for their own gain.
That’s a criticism of the system, not the technology.
This will happen (and happens) with any technology today that has the ability to be misused for money
No, you’re wrong. And judging from all the comments you’ve been making in reply to people explaining to you why you’re wrong, I’m wondering why you’re here seemingly to pick fights instead of actually learn, which is what you had intimated in your original post.
Some technologies are uniquely suited to be harmful, easily exploited by the greedy and extremely difficult to be made safe. Generative AI is one such technology. We are certainly happy to critique the systems and the people behind this agenda. We will also critique the technology itself.