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.
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 hundreds of thousands of websites and forcing them to implement captcha-like screening
Fry (even more) new generation’s attention spans and melt their ability to think by themselves
Ruin human interaction on the internet and fill it up with shit content
Force AI on everything for the sake of having it
Threat 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, in the right hands might help up with productivity or 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I mean, yeah, most people here dislike/hate AI for diversity of reasons, most commonly for:
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, in the right hands might help up with productivity or 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
Peas, safe mee Experienced Professional. I’m so scared of Claude’s massive slop hose. It makes me feel inadequate. >_<
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Even if that were true, most people do not have a healthy mindset
Being subject to social pressure doesn’t make you weak or less than. It is a normal part of being a social animal.