Yeah we all hear the main arguments... AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly... how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
āBut I'm asking about YOU š«µ personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
The hate is a reactionary luddite impulse; most of the problems with the technology are symptomatic of capitalism (e.g. oil and gas partnerships for data centers, IP law as a concept). Opposition of these grotesque excesses should be grounded in anti-capitalism instead of this naive anti-AI sentiment. In a socialist society, one could foresee such tools helping with economic planning, for instance.
The only issue that is unique to AI separate from other new technologies is anthropomorphization/agreeability/psychosis. The ultimate safeguard would be for AI to be essentially a glorified statistical aearch engine, and never refer to itself as if it were a service-worker as it currently does. Asking AI a "personal" question should simply reflect back "Will Not Answer."
how much do you really know about the luddites?
I'm just using it as an adjective to mean "anti-technology more or less on its own merit". I'm aware that it was a social movement but frankly this is not how the word "luddite" is used in a modern linguistic context.