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It has nothing to do of the fact that it's constantly being shoved and pushed down our throats by some of the worst human beings imaginable, wanting to maximize profits at the expense of humanity itself.
Billionaire technocrats pitch "AI will cure cancer and free humanity" but instead this shit steals jobs, creates poverty, abuses natural resources and rapes our privacy.
Fuck AI, it was always about helping ascend the elite to an untouchable place.
And they’re taking the human, creative jobs in a lot of ways. Not the menial jobs that many would probably rather vanish given a proper social safety net like UBI. They’re taking the jobs that define our culture and society. The artists, musicians, writers, those that entertain us in general, are having an increasingly hard time because some derivative AI slop costs a company pennies. “Derivative” being a very nice word for “stolen from these artists in the first place…”
In other words, AI is displacing the exact kind of avenues many humans would prefer if they had the time. Okay, got the rant out of my system for now…
Here's the Pew article instead of the journalistic swill Futurism publishes.
This is so much more informative than that article, and as a bonus the site is actually usable.
Pretty much any time a news article cites public opinion it's better to go to the primary sources or become very skeptical if they don't provide a link to the survey data. It's just a different purpose to convey the info without the sensationalism and manufactured perspective.
I started reading an article yesterday on a prominent international news source via rss about American opinions on the war and negotiations with Iran talking about majority public opinion as fact. I scanned through the rest of the article and there was no actual data, and only at the end did it state it was an op-ed written by a lobbyist and strategic advocacy employee. The web page had opinion written on the top but the feed just had it at the bottom.
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the 30-49 year olds and the 50-and-up brackets are more closely aligned, at 39 percent and 37 percent respectively viewing it as negative.
I'm really surprised at the 30–49 bracket being at 39%. But, keep in mind there's a huge gap in tech savviness and tech lifestyle between someone born in 1977 to someone born in 1996. Their impressionable years kicked off literally at opposite ends of the Digital/Tech revolution, so I guess that makes sense that way...
I'm in the middle of that bracket and am extremely negative about "AI" (LLMs, LDMs). I, and people born before me, grew up with technology. I sat on an Atari 1040 ST when I was 3 or 4. There's some stuff in the field of AI that's really exciting, like, for example, neural networks trained for pattern recognition to identify cancerous growths in early stages with much higher reliability than humans. LLMs and LDMs are not that kind of useful technology. I know how LLMs work and so I know that the intersection between their advertised and actual capabillity is tiny. There's no I in AI when it comes to LLMs. Yet they're the biggest investment bubble of all time. That bubble is going to pop when the average investor comes to the inevitable conclusion, that the technology cannot deliver on its promises. Until that economic catastrophy happens, it's fucking us in other ways on the way: wasting resources, negative impact on climate change, mental attrition (in those who rely on "AI"), depletion of seniority in all kinds of fields (using LLMs instead of training juniors), contributes to shifting of money to the capitalists, ... What's not to hate about "AI"? If anything my "tech savviness" makes me hate it more than the "unsavvy".
*Always Been
It will be the end of us. Reminds me of that episode of The Orville. Humans made the robots on a planet and they were mean to them, then the robots killed them all and took over. Pretty much the terminator situation.