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Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by happytoexplain »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

There is very strong anti-AI sentiment among "techies" too. It's just not absolute or generalized (AI is a huge umbrella term).

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Post by smt88 »

linkage wrote: post #3

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> face of AI amongst low-information luddites

This is condescending and unfair. Altman, OpenAI, and the media have spent years making Altman the face of AI. His company has (by far) the largest market cap, does the most deals, and has the most users.

I suspect Anthropic/Claude will become as much of a household name as ChatGPT, but it's not even close yet. ChatGPT is almost a generic term for AI chatbots at the moment.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by MontyCarloHall »

throwanem wrote: post #35
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

Surely there must have been underlying tensions in that marriage. (I don't feel at all confident in that statement; I am requesting reassurance.)

They are pretty good friends of mine and I never sensed any tension. It really was a marriage-ending bolt out of the blue, like discovering an affair or severe financial infidelity.

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Post by VectorLock »

dirkc wrote: post #39
lbarrow wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that

People talk about AI getting things wrong all the time, why is it "so clearly irrational" to be doubtful of a recipe that might include ingredients that can make you sick?

Because I hope that someone who's hands were required to assemble the recipe didn't blindly add ingredients like "bleach" if the AI happened to hallucinate them.

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Post by [deleted] »

dirkc wrote: post #39
lbarrow wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that

People talk about AI getting things wrong all the time, why is it "so clearly irrational" to be doubtful of a recipe that might include ingredients that can make you sick?

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Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by therobots927 »

strongpigeon wrote: post #36

It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...

It is scary. You know what’s also scary? Being told a robot is going to take your job and healthcare away.

There’s a lot of scary shit going on.

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Post by Analemma_ »

strongpigeon wrote: post #36

It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...

Altman keeps on telling people he’s going to take away their jobs. He says that because it gets cred in tech circles, but in America this is an existential threat, not much different from telling someone “I’m going to break your kneecaps”. Of course some subset of people are going to respond with violence.

The sheer tone-deafness of AI marketing is going to come back to bite us very hard. This is probably just the beginning.

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Post by pixel_popping »

lbarrow wrote: post #20
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that

but was it done with GPT-5.4 xhigh with an adversarial loop?

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Post by strongpigeon »

dirkc wrote: post #39
lbarrow wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that

People talk about AI getting things wrong all the time, why is it "so clearly irrational" to be doubtful of a recipe that might include ingredients that can make you sick?

Because it assumes the person actually making the food has no common sense?

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Post by lexandstuff »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

I've found that most non-tech people are indifferent or, at worst, utterly bored by any mention of AI.

The tech people are the ones that have the strongest opinions one way or the other.

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