Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can’t be waved around frantically to hide that.
I hate the greedy cynical corporations behind LLMs, and I hate the hype bubble, and I hate my stupid bosses and their AI FOMO. But I don’t hate AI. It’s a broad concept much bigger than chat bots. Hurricane modeling AI is damned good, for one example.
Pressure to shove LLMs into everything because it convinced a bunch of vapid know-nothing middle managers and C-suite knobs it was “alive” and that their stock options would skyrocket has unfortunately poisoned the well of “AI”.
But yes, purpose-built ML models that are amazing and useful. And almost no one, in the grand scheme of things, is using them.
They are being used in science and medicine. We just don’t hear about them as often.
Because they don’t talk to you, so you can’t be “vibe coding on the edge of reality” or whatever stupid shit it was that one of the AI CEOs said.
Lemmy is unusual in that it has a large portion of users who actually understand the underlying technologies in “AI” branded products. Most forums with a more typical audience do not have that.
We are a self-selected group of tech-savvy ideological refugees. That’s why I stay, I can learn things every day from lemmy. So i think the only thing different here is that many fuckai posts/comments have a factual and germane basis.
“self selected group of ideological refugees” describes the Fedis really well.
Does “everyone” hate AI? I am regularly baffled by people apparently feeding every question that pops into their minds to ChatGPT.
Far fewer people hate AI in the general population as a percentage than on Lemmy. Your average person either doesn’t care or has found it useful in some way.
Almost all of the people I know hold it in disdain. It’s not good at doing anything and the costs are very high.
“Everyone I know” is a very selective group. People tend to gravitate toward other people who share their beliefs and interests.
Do you realize that social media is a bubble, and whenever you see that “everyone thinks the way I do” it’s likely a result of you having become isolated among a self-selected group of like-minded individuals?
If “everyone pretty much hates it”, why did chatgpt.com become the fifth-most-visited website in existence?
Because unbelievable amounts of money have been devoted to making AI seem inveitable while these same companies have deeply enshittified traditional search engines?
Because people used to really buy into the hype of computers and a Silicon Valley sense of excitement about possibility?
Big tech is currently brutally strip mining our optimism with one of these earth strippers as if it didn’t leave a barren wasteland behind and wasn’t utterly unsustainable.
It isn’t because ChatGPT is making money that is for sure.
We can be anticapitalists, and still comprehend people love the idea of an extortionist sycophant that answers your every whim and curiosity.
Tis why djinns, fae, and Dolus exists in folklore.
Maybe get off your personal bubble, touch grass, and talk to normies.
