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:

  1. Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list.

  2. 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.

  • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • rapist1@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      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

      • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • rapist1@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          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

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      You put this better than I could. I hate it when I get that tiny rush of “oh that’s cool” whenever I see/hear/experience something before realizing it’s completely bullshit.

      “Oh shit, Shaboozey did a collab with Eminem? Gotta hear that. This is so coo-… fake. It’s fucking fake. Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu…”

      Every time, it feels like it “pollutes” or “taints” my brain. I don’t want that shit in there. For a similar reason to why I immediately go and look up a news story I see somewhere random on Snopes if it seems a little too perfect.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • rapist1@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      2 months ago

      Ok so it is sort of the fact that it’s everywhere and pushed hard?

      Maybe it’s simply:

      1. Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list
      2. Be forced into everyone’s life and media constantly

      Almost like a worse Nickelback effect or something

  • Meatball Man@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months ago

    I don’t hate Ai because Ai is a tool. I hate the people who are misusing, and mismanaging it. The people building datacenters in the worst ways and worst places possible, the people trying to force feed it to the world regardless of their consent, people who know all of the massive risks of agi and yet don’t seem to care, there’s are so many bad things to dislike about the ways it’s being used that I could be here all day.

    But at the end of the day, if someone is using something to hurt you, you don’t hate the tool, you hate the person using the tool.