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An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by yodsanklai »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #10
10xDev wrote: post #4

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The tech industry is just eating itself. Other fields seem nowhere near as impacted.

I've personally used Codex to reconcile financial data, and met a guy who basically built his own AI inference engine to help him fight a custody battle for his daughter (semantic search over gigabytes of documents). I'm not saying lawyers and accountants are going to all be out of a job (at the end of the day, they do more than just comb over documents to find the needle in the haystack), but a lot of the manual gru…

Gemini helped me a lot for my tax return. It actually did a better job than Deloitte, it found several mistakes in previous returns they filled for me.

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by xboxnolifes »

ElProlactin wrote: post #34
epistasis wrote: post #32

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I think that the creepiness of the tech CEOs that show up in media has a ton to do with this too, as they seem like cartoonish villians. Alex Karp, in particular, has some of the most absolutely horrifying clips of his TV appearances circulating all over video social media. But Musk has broader reach, and is even more oblivious and has tied himself to someone who he himself accused of pedophilia. Andreesen, Thiel, Sa…

It might not be your intention, but your comment seems to imply that the problem here is more image than substance. The problem isn't that these people are simply inarticulate and incapable of expressing their views in ways that appeal to people. It's that their views are unappealing (if not downright objectionable) to most people.

It's both. A view people do not like, but are unaware of, is one they are not mad about.

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by happytoexplain »

wilg wrote: post #25
happytoexplain wrote: post #19

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This has nothing to do with reality, where reality means "what people have", rather than "the economy".

"What people have" is robustly measured, well-understood, and pretty much all available evidence suggests that people (at least in the US and developed countries) are doing better than ever on most important metrics. But it is not as seductive as "everything is terrible"!

Sorry to sound harsh, but you are out of touch. Many social metrics are very complex objectively and are not accounted for by "robust measuring", and this is the biggest example there ever was. Data is king where it can describe reality - but the elephant in the room is that data can't describe reality in some very high-profile societal contexts, and pretending it can is dangerous with a capital D.

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by karim79 »

sscaryterry wrote: post #15

I hate it, yet I'm burning millions of tokens doing shit I previously knew I could do, never had the attention or time to, but now, its like crack...

Are your tokens earning dollars and do they translate into a sustainable form of income? Honest question. I know people who have been laid off and their answer seems to be "use AI make stuff and go forward for the win". All the while actually paying these AI companies to train on their thoughts or slop or whatever it should be called now.

I think there is some mass confusion happening right now (psychosis even) and things are getting scary.

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by munificent »

ElProlactin wrote: post #34
epistasis wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that the creepiness of the tech CEOs that show up in media has a ton to do with this too, as they seem like cartoonish villians. Alex Karp, in particular, has some of the most absolutely horrifying clips of his TV appearances circulating all over video social media. But Musk has broader reach, and is even more oblivious and has tied himself to someone who he himself accused of pedophilia. Andreesen, Thiel, Sa…

It might not be your intention, but your comment seems to imply that the problem here is more image than substance. The problem isn't that these people are simply inarticulate and incapable of expressing their views in ways that appeal to people. It's that their views are unappealing (if not downright objectionable) to most people.

Right on.

It's a sign of how disempowered the populace is that these selfish ghouls don't even feel the need to pretend to be decent functioning adults anymore. Because, why bother? What is anyone gonna do about it?

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by wilg »

happytoexplain wrote: post #53
wilg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"What people have" is robustly measured, well-understood, and pretty much all available evidence suggests that people (at least in the US and developed countries) are doing better than ever on most important metrics. But it is not as seductive as "everything is terrible"!

Sorry to sound harsh, but you are out of touch. Many social metrics are very complex objectively and are not accounted for by "robust measuring", and this is the biggest example there ever was. Data is king where it can describe reality - but the elephant in the room is that data can't describe reality in some very high-profile societal contexts, and pretending it can is dangerous with a capital D.

What are you relying on if not information about reality?

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by Danox »

xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #37
crooked-v wrote: post #36

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I have to wonder sometimes if the people of the US will ever realize that their housing shortages are self-inflicted. It seems like a massive number of people have somehow been hypnotized into thinking that building more homes increases home prices.

Its not self inflicted. It does have many causes, zoning being one of them, but the reluctance to build a they do in eg China is a problem

By coincidence the United States isn’t the only country Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have the same problem lack of affordability for people between 18 and 35 who can’t afford to buy a house/home.

Notice that all these countries are English speaking countries? Aside from speaking English they also have lots in common when it comes to the way the economy and society is run. I can only speak for the United States, but I’ve noticed unfordable not luxury apartments going up everywhere and starter homes are not.

Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by an0malous »

maplethorpe wrote: post #47

I used to be proud to say I worked in tech. Now I look around me and I'm surrounded by scam artists and grifters. Where did it all go wrong?

When people started making serious money it attracted all the bros and psychopaths from the finance industry
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