No one has convinced me how it is good for the general public. It seems like it will benefit corpos and governments, to the detriment of the general public.

It’s just another thing they’ll use to fuck over the average person.

Kibler was great.

Why are we asking loaded questions as a first post in a new account?

I don’t hate AI, LLMs are incredibly powerful tools that have an incredibly wide range of uses. The technology itself is something that’s very exciting and promising.

What I do hate is how they’re being used by large corporations. A small handful of big tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, OpenAI, etc) decided to take this technology and pursue it in the greediest ways possible:

1. They took open source code, built on top of it, and closed it off so they could sell it
2. They scrapped all the data on the internet without consent and used it to train their models
3. They made their models generate stuff based on copyrighted works without permission or giving credit. thus basically stealing the content
4. But that wasn’t enough for them so they decided to train their models on every interaction you have with their LLM services, so all your private conversations are stored and recycled even if they’re private
5. They use the data from the conversations that you’ve had with the chatbots to build customer profiles about you that they sell to advertisers so they could send you hoards of personalized ads
6. They started integrating their LLMs into their other products as much as they could so they could artificially increase their stock prices
7. They aggressively campaign for other companies to buy and integrate their models so both parties could artificially increase their stock prices
8. In order to meet their artificially induced demand, they sucking the life out of the electricity grid, which is screwing over everybody else
9. They’re also taking over the hardware industry and killing off consumer electronics since its more profitable for manufacturers to sell AI companies than to consumers
10. They’re openly bribing, lobbying, and campaigning governments to give them grants, tax breaks, and keep regulations at a minimum so they could do whatever they want and have society pay for the privilege
11. They’re using these LLMs to cut as many jobs as possible so they could penny pinch just a little more, hence the massive waves of recent layoffs recently. This is being done even if the LLM replacement is far worse in performance than humans.
12. All of this is being done with zero regard to the environmental damage caused by them with their monstrous data centers and electricity consumption
13. All of this is being done with zero regard to the harmful impacts caused to people and society. These LLMs frequently lie and spread misinformation, they feed into delusions and bad habits of mentally unwell people, and they’re causing great damage to schools since students could use these models to easily cheat and nothing can be done about it

When put all of this together, then it’s easy to understand why people hate AI. This is what people oppose, and rightfully so. These corporations created a massive bubble and put our economy at risk of a major recession, they’re destabilizing our infrastructure, destroying our environment, they’re corrupting our government, they’re forcing tens of thousands of people into dire financial situations by laying them off, they’re eroding our privacy and rights, and they’re harming our mental health… and for what? I’ll tell you, all of this is done so a few greedy billionaires could squeeze a few more dollars so they could buy their 5th yacht, 9th private jet, or 7th McMansion. Fuck them all.

Ai

• costs jobs
• consumes enormous amounts of energy which makes it bad for the environment and the utility costs
• makes the rich richer
• has still the hallucination problem
• makes generating fake news easier than ever
• uses copyrighted material for training without permission
• is used to fill the internet with AI slop
• is trained by big companies with their own political agenda
• fucks up the RAM/SSD market
• makes people dumber
• isn’t even AI

Have you seen the RAM prices lately? 🫩

I hate his flannel shirts and the way he’d always show the show’s mailing address whenever Tim said something stupid.

I don’t. All the anti-intellectual technophobia we’re seeing right now will be a small footnote in history.

I don’t hate LLMs I hate how they are being used and what they are being used for. I am not a luddite (even if I jokingly claim to be) and do see value in LLMs for some uses. Just not the ones they are primarily being used for in America

I don’t hate it, but my personal experience has been that it’s not reliable enough to depend on. I don’t like that it’s being pushed on us so hard when it will routinely let us down.

AI doesn’t exist. This is like asking an atheist why they hate god.

If you’re talking about LLMs and the like, they’re unpopular on Lemmy because tech people are over represented here and tech people understand how these technologies work and why all the hype isn’t just false, but malicious.

It’s a masterclass in externalities: local communities face the consequences of the resource consumption by the data centers.

Job loss: were all told the “knowledge market” is where you deserve a good salary. AI threatens a lot of that work. Blue collar factory work will go as soon as AI can be properly integrated with nimble robotics that aren’t quite there yet. With how disgusting our society is (in the US) there will be no consideration for the people who can no longer find work.

Wealth built on theft and gambling: people like Altman become fabulously wealthy with a system that makes 0 profit and has been built off of the stolen works of millions of people.

Capacity to manipulate: we’ve had enough trouble with bad faith actors on the Internet with real people. Now we’re going to have an endless army of “intelligent” actors that will be weaponized against populations worldwide to secure the position of the ultra wealthy over all of our governments.

I didn’t before much, but now I REALLY don’t have a positive outlook on our future because of this…

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Mostly for all the AI haters who can’t stop bringing up their hatred of AI. Insufferable.

Block all Bots

Why do you keep making and deleting so many accounts?

If you kept the same one, a lot of people would block you and stop down votng every post you make from a new account