A huge amount of people on social media are conditioned to hate everything AI to the point where even asking a genuine, non-critical question gets you downvoted. A large part of this is people who haven’t really thought deeply about the subject - they’ve just absorbed the popular sentiment from the spaces they hang out in. AI is often seen as a symbol of big, greedy, unethical corporations, so any engagement with it is treated as suspect by default.
On top of that, there’s also a kind of tribal signaling at play. Being anti-AI has become a way for some to show they’re on the “right side” of issues like workers’ rights, art ownership, or tech overreach. So even curiosity can be read as siding with the enemy.
Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because it’s one thing to not shame ignorance, and quite another to entertain people who are being deliberately obtuse.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
It’s certainly reasonable to offer a charitable interpretation of the question. Rather than assume mal-intent.
“What would it take for an AI to be given governance over the world?”
Toes@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah that’s pretty much what I was going for.
Kinda surprised about the downvotes but glad people came out to comment about it anyways.