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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 vjvjvjvjghv »

zarzavat wrote: post #13

AI is a technology with the explicit end-goal of substituting energy for people. It's not intended to benefit the common man, it's intended to benefit the capital owning classes.

That has been the case since industrialization. It's not exactly new that capitalists want to replace workers with machines. The question is whether there will be new and different jobs for people or if AI and robots will take over everything this time. If that's the case, capitalism will break (nobody can afford to buy the products anymore) and a new economic system will emerge. This could be a great system for everybody or a dystopian one. My bet is on dystopian until there will possibly be a violent revolution by the peasants.

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Post by chrisjj »

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.

Does the fact there are so nany things called fruit these days make "Who likes fruit" a meaningless question?

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Post by tw04 »

furyofantares wrote: post #15
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,…

The right is desperately trying to figure out how to get their commoners onboard but the only narrative they’ve got so far is: this will help us kill “terrorists. That story is ringing pretty hollow when the orange one campaigned on no new wars and they’re trying to blame AI for their decision to bomb an Iranian school.

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Post by rolph »

klik99 wrote: post #18
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.

its ok, you can say gaslighting, but its not only AI industry. the trend is a spread

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

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

yellow_postit wrote: post #19

This is a very US centric view in part because of the low confidence in the American government to be able to effectively regulate negative impacts. https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/publi...

I don't think this link supports your claim. All English speaking countries in the "Opinions about AI by country" chart have 60%+ people who are nervous, in every country but Japan at least 40% of people are nervous, and there's no obvious correlation with the "trust in government regulation" data further down.

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Post by Forgeties79 »

ronsor wrote: post #9
Forgeties79 wrote: post #5

Any 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…

That is my point. It doesn’t matter what they’re built for or the ideal use is. People are using them to waste other people’s time.

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

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Post by JoshTriplett »

klik99 wrote: post #18
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.

It's not "weird", it's hostile marketing. "How do we overcome the negative sentiment we see as an obstacle in order to sell to people who don't want it, or people who will be around people who don't want it?" It's an entirely natural, commonplace, awful thing. See also "how do we market cigarettes" and "how do we maximize social media engagement" (the latter being one reason outrage gets amplified).

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

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Post by chrisjj »

klik99 wrote: post #18
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.

> 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

Disagreed. It in an attempt to paint the real reasons for anti-"AI" sentiment as unreasonable, period.

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