The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment
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#2This psychological analysis is baffling.
People are increasingly hostile towards AI because they’re realizing there’s a good chance it turns out to be the most toxic and destructive thing that humanity has ever invented. The creation of modern AI may be looked back on as the worst thing that humanity has ever done — if there’s even enough humanity and enough truth left to reflect.
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#3The public was much more likely to say AI would harm them than benefit them.
There are so many things called "AI" these days, that studies like this are basically meaningless. I think (hope) most people's views can't be reduced to a single binary question.
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#4Both things can be true.
AI can help you in the near term and harm you in the long term.
I think the more people use AI the more their view shifts from the former to the latter.
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#5Any discussion about AI/LLM’s/etc is incredibly complicated. I could go on and on elaborating on this, but I’m just going to leave my preface at that.
There is one thing I found to be true over and over again no matter what the anchor point is for the conversation, no matter the context, no matter someone’s sentiment, etc: nobody likes to have their time wasted.
LLM’s are incredibly useful for cutting corners. It makes it very easy to waste people’s time. No matter how useful they are, no matter the use case you have found, no matter the integration, people keep encountering bad search results and people sending them clearly LLM-generated work that wastes their time.
Unless somebody comes up with a cure for that, there will always be a significant portion of the population that is hostile to LLM’s - and rightfully so! No promise of productivity will overcome that.
TL;DR: the biggest problem with LLM’s is that it enables people to waste other people’s time.
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#6The public was much more likely to say AI would harm them than benefit them. There are so many things called "AI" these days, that studies like this are basically meaningless. I think (hope) most people's views can't be reduced to a single binary question.
I think these studies aren't meaningless at all, but the fact that "AI" is a loosely used term means that many people might view even more simple ML methods with skepticism, as opposed to just, say, chat-like LLM tools.
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#7I wasn't expecting the next culture war to be about AI.
In 20 years the thanksgiving dinner fights over AI equality are going to be wild.
>I'm not a bigot I support trans rights. But clankers aren't welcome in our share house.
>> OK Millennial. I'm a cyborg with 95% of my brain running in a private server.
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#8I want to use AI to do my job.
I want to use AI to do your job.
I don't want someone else to use AI to do my job.
I don't want to spend my attention on AI content that takes more time to consume than create.
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#9Any discussion about AI/LLM’s/etc is incredibly complicated. I could go on and on elaborating on this, but I’m just going to leave my preface at that. There is one thing I found to be true over and over again no matter what the anchor point is for the conversation, no matter the context, no matter someone’s sentiment, etc: nobody likes to have their time wasted. LLM’s are incredibly useful for cutting corners. It mak…
There was always content that wastes people's time because people have always confused length and complexity with comprehensiveness and depth.
These were always poor proxy metrics for "good content," but in a lot of environments, especially professional ones, they were how work was evaluated. Naturally others used LLM to generate content that satisfies these metrics.
The slop epidemic is a consequence of what people erroneously valued for so long. Now they have it, and it's meaningless, and even if most of it was always meaningless, they can't easily tell the difference between "fluff with something meaningful" and "fluff with only fluff" anymore.
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#10Any discussion about AI/LLM’s/etc is incredibly complicated. I could go on and on elaborating on this, but I’m just going to leave my preface at that. There is one thing I found to be true over and over again no matter what the anchor point is for the conversation, no matter the context, no matter someone’s sentiment, etc: nobody likes to have their time wasted. LLM’s are incredibly useful for cutting corners. It mak…
And the effect is often multiplicative.
Impersonal corporation which has been improving their capability to make you give up in disgust for decades jumping on the AI bandwagon? Check.
Voice recognition system that doesn't? Check.
Dunning-Kruger level responses once you finally get your voice recognized? Check.