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Survey results are in! AI is more hated than ICE! (but less hated than the Democratic Party) (futurism.com)
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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In thinking about America today, please tell me whether you agree or disagree with the following statement:

“The very rich and powerful are above the law and when they do something wrong, they look out for each other, using their power and connections to get special treatment.”

  • Agree: 84
  • Disagree: 14
  • Not sure: 2

This one in particular stands out to me. Most questions can't seem to get below 30% support for the evil option, but even that group mostly recognizes that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean after the Epstein Files you have to be either deliberately ignorant or incredibly dense to not realise the rich get off easily

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

I do wonder how much of the disconnect is in whgo gets considered part of the rich and powerful. Like, a lot of that 30% probably think specifically of liberal academics, celebrities, Democratic politicians, etc. and exclude or excuse people like Elon and Trump and whoever of his friends isn't currently the scapegoat for why he isn't ushering in the promised glorious reformation.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only the Democratic Party and Iran scored more negatively than AI,

The Democrats. The Republicans hate them and the Democrats hate them. What a colossal, world ending, disappointment

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The world is not over yet, the dems can still score lower. Lets ask the zionists what will happen next.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

full survey here

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago

Cool. I don't usually see the raw sausage making results, usually I just see whatever news article reports it and sometimes mangle's the statistics.

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I went through it and it seems to indicate the opposite of what the article says? Did I miss something?

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

here’s the summary table that the article pulled its numbers from

here’s a specific question regarding AI

[–] samvines@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I hate the framing here "the risks outweigh.the benefits" is critihype. The survey maker shouldn't be reinforcing the general population's assumption that spicy autocomplete means that AGI is nigh.

Although I guess when framed as "spicy autocorrect trained on classic sci-fi tropes like terminator being in charge of making kill decisions" the risk framing makes more sense but I don't think I'm going out on a limb here to suggest that this is not how average Joe is going to mentally frame the question

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you! There was another section that had different numbers and I was just looking at raw numbers as well.

[–] picklefactory@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My realization of the last couple weeks is: in the future, being an AI toucher will be a source of intense social stigma. Whenever I see it in the wild I think “good job”.

[–] picklefactory@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

and to be clear, that doesn't include the various people out there struggling to use it “enough” due to the desires of “leadership”

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The DEMOCRATS are some of the MOST Hated things in the US? Wow! That's PROBABLY because we spend SO much Time trying to CATER to our Voters INSTEAD of MAGA!

-Highly Paid DNC Strategists!

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Let's also advance someone who is less popular than our previous candidate for president."

Somehow Newsome beat AI by 1 point in terms of positive impact.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

"When they lose it will be the voters' fault"

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 9 points 2 days ago

Makes sense as literally everyone using a phone or computer is directly impacted by AI increasing the chance of negative interactions while ICE directly impacts a smaller number of people and a lot of people like that ICE makes people suffer.