• T3CHT @sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Here here. This place doesn’t have much rational thoughts on AI.

    I’m (a little) surprised how group think this place is on the topic - y’all are a serious echo chamber. This place is like rainbow flags and kill the bots central. Any pro AI counterpoint mentions bring pitch forks and hate. That’s not a good look.

    Maybe I’m an AI bro myself, but I’m also an experienced professional using it to do real work (and no, not taking any jobs, building new tools for a team that needs them). Linus is a real expert. But why listen to experience and expertise when you have an opinion and feel justified. It’s ok to be afraid, but when scary change comes wise folks listen and learn.

    Here we don’t worry about facts and reality, just get your outrage revved up. Social media is social media - and that’s scarier than AI, because it uses people to make the garbage.

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      12 hours ago

      I mean, yeah, most people here dislike/hate AI for diversity of reasons, most commonly for:

      • Taking up PC components that don’t even exist
      • Taking up green land
      • Pollute nearby areas with audible noise
      • Pirate and suck in all the human knowledge just to sell it back to you
      • Effectively DDoS-ing hundreds of thousands of websites and forcing them to implement captcha-like screening
      • Frying (even more) new generation’s attention spans and melt their ability to think by themselves
      • Ruining human interaction on the internet and filling it up with shit content
      • Corporates forcing AI on everything for the sake of having it
      • Threatening to take people’s jobs

      And tbf, most of those issues come from brain-rot executives and corporates.

      It’s okay if you like it and you find it helpful, it’s a tool after all. Like any other tool, on the right hands might boost productivity and help with repetitive tasks.

      The main problem is that most people will think that you support any of the above downsides by liking it.

      I’m a bit curious, would you share your pro AI counterpoints?

      I know, username doesn’t check out

      Edit: grammar

    • jerakor@startrek.website
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      My worry is that the people we need engaged on AI because they have a healthy mindset to question and wrangle it, are instead being forced to ignore AI or pledge to be anti AI by their social circles and customers.

      So instead we have absolute Kool aid drinkers driving the AI adoption.

      We went through this with the internet but I think a lot of folks now are too young to remember it and unsurprisingly the people who were anti internet didn’t store their concerns and complaints in the currently used modern repository of all knowledge.

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
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        24 hours ago

        “are instead being forced ot ignore ai or pledge to be anti ai by their social circles and customers.”

        umm. im pretty sure you don’t need to worry about that.

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          22 hours ago

          Why? I consistently see these anti AI purity tests come up.

          We need people who are skeptical to engage on AI.

          People hate technology and change. Before AI it was smartphones. Before smartphones it was photoshop/digital art and CGI. Before CGI it was the Internet. Before Internet it was TV. Before TV it was cars. Before cars it was industry. Before industry it was books.

          Someone probably was anti cave paintings because it ruined the skill of passing down the stories by word of mouth.

          Something is always coming along that is both horrible for society as it is and something we come to accept as common place. You can want to return to our roots but even that I guarantee you would still pick some level of technology you don’t want to do without.

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            22 hours ago

            because people with a healthy mindset are not going to influenced or coerced by social circles. maybe their customers but that only applies to that customers deliverable.

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              21 hours ago

              Being subject to social pressure doesn’t make you weak or less than. It is a normal part of being a social animal.

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                21 hours ago

                im sorry but it kinda does. it is not all that hard to not follow the herd or go against the grain or even leave a social circle. Many can’t do it sure but many don’t have healthy mindsets to.

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                  I am decidedly on the spectrum and very much prefer things to be clear-cur with precisely defined lines.

                  You can be a healthy individual with solid beliefs and that is precisely why you can’t in good conscience walk away from your family who might be struggling but always means well in their heart of hearts. Not bad people, just misguided. And on top of that, they’re your only support network. You may disagree on everything except that you genuinely love one another and would never wish or bring harm upon one another.

                  A healthy person would absolutely struggle with leaving that social circle. And this isn’t really that far-fetched a scenario as most people really aren’t that adamant and vitriolic in their beliefs as any given extreme would have you believe.

                  So are you wrong? Not in every case, for sure. But you’re also not really correct either. Human interactions are mostly nuance, which your assessment is entirely devoid of.

    • uuj8za@piefed.social
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      20 hours ago

      It’s ok to be afraid, but when scary change comes wise folks listen and learn.

      Peas, safe mee Experienced Professional. I’m so scared of Claude’s massive slop hose. It makes me feel inadequate. >_<