Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy

lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just like how the radio would cause children to stop reading, television would rot your brain, and video games cause you to kill your family.

  I’m not even pro AI, but all this whining from grumpy old men is annoying.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Actually, it seems like the grumpy old men are the ones zealously advocating for AI, and most of the people complaining are younger and take issue with the labour and artists rights, as well as environmental, problems that it causes.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m very in the middle, I don’t like to use the AI features that are being shoved into everything, because they rarely do what I need effectively, but there are functions of AI that are very useful in specific cases.

      We should be talking about the effects of AI, the good, the bad, and the impact it will have on other fields. AI is happening, and it should be guided on the most positive path possible, but the stance of “AI BAD!” is just as useless and ignorant as trying to shove AI functionality into a gumball machine.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        When the most important things to zoomers and gen alpha, and still most millennials, is to prevent climate catastrophe the thing that’s sucking down, and will suck down, most of the world’s electricity to do a few small things that you can do for yourself just as easily, all in the name of productivity and profit for the capitalist machine that is destroying the world. Well, can you see how that would drive many to just say “AI BAD!”?

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  • lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right. Cool bro.

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see less about petrochemicals here than AI, and I’d say that’s #1 by a long shot. At least, in terms of climate change. You’d think it’d be much larger.

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  • lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not a mutually exclusive misery contest. You can despise and speak out against both. Lemmy has a heavy focus on tech due to its userbase so it’s always going to be more geared towards those interests.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I suppose you have a good point, AI is more tech related I suppose than plastics.

      And yet, doesn’t that make more the point why more attention should be brought to things like microplastics in toothpastes and chewing gum? Either way, there’s significant overlap between people who dislike AI because of data center pollution and environmentalism

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      • lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So submit more articles about those topics then. People can (and do) care about both.

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