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:
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Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list.
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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.
Things like factuality and informativeness have improved and continue to improve, but the hate only gets more widespread, so I don’t know if this covers the phenomenon
I get the sense that you are here to promote Ai, more than debate based on your other responses, though that in itself is debate-worthy in my opinion.
The negative implications of generative ai far outweigh the benefits to anyone other than those looking to somehow cash in on the current craze.
Not only is it frighteningly unsustainable, willfully enshrouded in deep misinformation/propaganda, dangerously unregulated and desperately over-hyped, it has also contributed far greater losses to society compared to any fathomable gains.
Using the argument that it will get better doesn’t really sit well with real people that are already dealing with job losses, water scarcity, grid problems, privacy invasion, sophisticated fraud attempts, hallucinated information, data loss…. The list goes on.
It’s only a matter of time before the costs catch up to these providers and they either have to introduce heavy biases to specific products or services to generate ad revenue en masse, or abandon ship leaving the rest of us to deal with the consequences.
If you really are here to promote AI as I suspect, then I wish you the best of luck.
You are going to need it.