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The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by lizknope »

Every PC gamer / hardware tech review forum is full of anti-AI hatred.

People want to buy a new GPU, add RAM, a new SSD, or hard drive. All of these have doubled or quadrupled in price in just a few months.

Then there are reddit threads every day where I think 30% of the original posts and comments are AI generated spam. If I see a post with emdashes or anything that ends by asking for "thoughts?" I just down vote and report as spam. I want to interact with actual humans not AI bots.

Then we see posts about AI data centers and electricity use which will lead to higher electric bills for ordinary people if demand is higher than supply.

This is ignoring all the stuff about people losing jobs.

So why should the video game playing population or even the general population be in support of AI? Of course it has uses but there are so many negatives right now it is easy for me to understand why people are already sick of it.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by blululu »

>> Public hostility toward AI now looks stronger than ordinary skepticism toward a new technology. People have reasons for that response, including fraud, misinformation, privacy invasion, concentration of power, and job displacement. Job displacement carries its own emotional weight because it threatens status, livelihood, and social usefulness, which gives the fear an existential edge. >>This essay explores why anti-AI sentiment may be gaining force.

The article lists off all the obvious and credible reasons why people are opposed to AI in the intro paragraph. It then spends the next 25 paragraphs advancing a very clever pet theory derived psychology about what might be going on here. While interesting in its own right, the article misses the obvious concerns that it raised in the intro paragraph.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by forgetfreeman »

I find it offensive that comments that appear to be legitimate additions to the conversation are downvoted into oblivion and then flagged without even a single response to suggest where the author of the comment in question was in error. This is definitely not what I would expect to see on an ostensibly neutral platform that claims to be dedicated to technical discussion of issues on their merits.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by furyofantares »

noosphr wrote: post #7

I 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.

The usual left/right haven't managed to pick a side and consume this. Maybe they still will. I don't know who would get which side though.

A cynical part of me says it's something everybody can hate. I can see both sides taking that. I can't see either side embracing it as part of the left or right identity.

Maybe more it's a conflict between those with power and those without. Like return to office, or open offices, or cubicles before that, and probably many other things back to the luddites and earlier.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by ang_cire »

noosphr wrote: post #7

I 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.

As a millennial, I will be the first to run my brain on my toilet homelab servers.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by userbinator »

WastedCucumber wrote: post #6
userbinator wrote: post #3

The 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.

There's also a difference between using AI as a tool for creation, and as an oracle for truth.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by klik99 »

blululu wrote: post #12

>> Public hostility toward AI now looks stronger than ordinary skepticism toward a new technology. People have reasons for that response, including fraud, misinformation, privacy invasion, concentration of power, and job displacement. Job displacement carries its own emotional weight because it threatens status, livelihood, and social usefulness, which gives the fear an existential edge. >>This essay explores why ant…

The company whos blog it is is "AI-assisted clinical documentation" - I feel this is an attempt to explain anti-AI sentiment as an unreasonable aversion to AI rather than the real reasons for anti-AI sentiment. There's a weird trend in the AI industry to pathologize people who don't like AI.

Re: The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Post by chrisjj »

jmathai wrote: post #4

Both 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.

> Both things can be true.

Sure but that has nothing to do with long/short term.

Everything to do with have/have not.

Let's read again.

> 76% of AI experts said AI would benefit them personally, while only 24% of the U.S. public said the same.

Think 76% of financial experts said higher tax on low earners would benefit them, whilst only 24% of the public said the same.

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