You clearly don’t work in my office.

Think of the alternative? Person uses a tool, tool does what they want, they go about their day.

What are they shouting from the rooftops? Gemini is running my herb garden, my herbs haven’t died yet! This is true: plant selection, pot selection, substrate, feeding/watering routine and troubleshooting is all managed by AI… Gardening isn’t a skill I care to aquire, I just want the herbs. I’ll often use it as a rubber duck to cover basic trouble shooting of my homelab, sometimes it figures out the problem, often it doesn’t but I’ll figure it out myself, keeping me off the forums.

Sure there is going to be shills screaming that their particular spanner cures cancer, or whatever, but the rest of us just use spanners and think/say nothing of it.

I’m sympathetic to the anti-capitalist arguments levied against AI, but only the anti-cap ones and only because they’re anti-cap. They’re right, capitalism does over exploit an environment causing climate change, droughts etd. They’re right, capitalism is unethical. They’re right capitalism does steal the value workers create. None of these problems are unique to AI (Nestle was stealing water long before AI), none of these problems are necessary for AI.

In my experience, IRL conversations are generally more nuanced. I rarely encounter people who are adamant about one stance or another in any kind of absolute terms. But online, you’ll often find people on the extremes, saying that anything AI is good/bad no matter what and getting mad at anyone that doesn’t share the same opinion. And those extremes are often the loudest voices.

Half my internet (vehicle enthusiasts) hates EVs because they’re part of the liberal agenda. Half my internet (political progressives) hates Tesla because it represents the fascist agenda. And then the other 99% of my country’s citizens don’t give enough shits about the topics to post online about it. My liberal area is full of brand new Teslas.

You’re seeing people complain. You’re not acknowledging all the other internet traffic you’re seeing talking about anything besides Ai. And here, there’s a higher anti-ai sentiment than other parts of the internet. Consider that a huge part of it has to do with the bullshit marketing terminology applied to chatbots and other pre-existing machine-learning suites that suddenly have a fresh coat of conversationalism that presents itself as authoritative.

Most of the people in my life do not like AI and are open about it and we sometimes talk about it and how we don’t like it. It’s not an all the time thing obviously but I know where most of my friends stand on the subject and we have had conversations about it

because online, stupid people with bad opinions cant shoot/stab/assault you when they cant handle legitimate criticism and facts.

Unlike real life, where people just smile, nod, and get the fuck away.

I see/hear it a lot irl. All that slop in ads (TV and internet) as well as other locations does not go over well. Especially the younger generation.

Cool 😎

When I come across someone IRL who loves AI I avoid the topic around them. My opinions on the topic are likely to offend them, so to avoid hurting their feelings or causing conflict I won’t mention them. Now, if it’s someone I care about I’ll find a way to gently broach the topic because I know that heavy AI use is causing them harm and I don’t want my family and friends to lose their grip on reality.

Well, you’re a bot I guess. No one I know loves it. Or uses it for much beyond playing around and trying to get it to be stupid. One friend said she used it for apologizing to people, but stopped when that backfired

I have trouble finding someone who doesn’t hate AI IRL.

Not a single person I know uses or likes AI. I think you’re just wrong, and know other people who behave similarly.

Because AI is actually useful in many situations to the individual, but inherently terrible for society as a whole.

So, different mentalities express themselves in different places. For my workplace, talk about AI as an innovation happens more often. In my day-to-day, all the talk is concern about a new datacenter going up in our community. In the internet, people seem largely against AI. I find it to be a symptom of certain environments leveraging a different thought process.

I think it’s pretty fair to say, the internet overall cares deeply for expression and humanity, to which AI has fed off of to train, and now regurgitates in inhuman speech. This affects us all, and makes the overall internet experience worse. Oppositionally, AI has allowed businesses to streamline workflows. No more fluffing up an email with bullshit to “sound professional,” just have an AI do it for you and save the time. And as for local datacenters, no shame if you don’t know what they do to communities, but I don’t think you’d believe a Lemmy comment if it’s your first time hearing of it.

Idk, are your friends kid of dumb and easy to impress?

Because you are prone to be in eco chambers, on- and offline