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I Am An AI Hater

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Re: I Am An AI Hater

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Post by taormina »

marcosdumay wrote: post #6
ratelimitsteve wrote: post #2

watching the tide turn (or, more accurately, the undercurrent bubble up) on AI has been interesting

It's interesting that the social reaction started to surface as soon as the companies failed to get more investment and decided to increase prices. I know it was there the entire time, so what exactly was suppressing the attention towards it? Was it satisfied customers or the companies paying to deplatform the message?

Are they running out of funds to drown out the protesters with their own marketing?

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Post by danielbln »

Yet it is here to stay, won't go away and even if it won't get any better at the useful things it does, it is useful. The externalities are real, some can be removed, some mitigated. If you're a hater and a human, then you don't have to mitigate anything, of course.

Me, I hate the externalities, but I love the thing. I want to use my own AI, hyper optimized and efficient and private. It would mitigate a lot. Maybe some day.

Re: I Am An AI Hater

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Post by sindriava »

> I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context;

With this the article lost all seriousness for me. I may be on board with a lot of what you are saying, but pretending you know the answer to these questions just makes you look as idiotic as anyone who says the opposite.

Re: I Am An AI Hater

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Post by danielbln »

monkaiju wrote: post #5

I love the high citation per sentence ratio and couldn't agree more with the sentiment. It seems that, finally, people are starting to verbalize sufficiently direct responses to the AI slop being flung at us from all angles.

Outright rejection won't help with making AI go away. We can only change it, but it is here to stay.

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Post by Mallowram »

danielbln wrote: post #12

Yet it is here to stay, won't go away and even if it won't get any better at the useful things it does, it is useful. The externalities are real, some can be removed, some mitigated. If you're a hater and a human, then you don't have to mitigate anything, of course. Me, I hate the externalities, but I love the thing. I want to use my own AI, hyper optimized and efficient and private. It would mitigate a lot. Maybe so…

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Re: I Am An AI Hater

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Post by holbrad »

>Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright,

I just can't take anything the author has to say seriously after the intro.

Re: I Am An AI Hater

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Post by emseetech »

marcosdumay wrote: post #6
ratelimitsteve wrote: post #2

watching the tide turn (or, more accurately, the undercurrent bubble up) on AI has been interesting

It's interesting that the social reaction started to surface as soon as the companies failed to get more investment and decided to increase prices. I know it was there the entire time, so what exactly was suppressing the attention towards it? Was it satisfied customers or the companies paying to deplatform the message?

It may have started earlier. This study came out a year ago, showing consumers overwhelmingly were turned off by companies slapping "AI" on products.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...

| Adverse impacts of revealing the presence of “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” technology in product and service descriptions on purchase intentions: the mediating role of emotional trust and the moderating role of perceived risk

Witness how quickly we went from being awed by Dall-E and Midjourney to saying "looks like AI" as an insult.

Re: I Am An AI Hater

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Post by StopDisinfo910 »

Amusingly things are going with AI like with any complex topics nowadays. It’s easier to hold a strong position than a nuanced one. So you see a lot of vapid articles either for or against, even - or especially actually - if you don’t really know for or against what exactly, and very few insightful ones.

Plague of our ages I guess. Ironically AI might even make it worse.

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