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Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Whether intentional or not, this is gaslighting. “Here’s the trendy reaction those wacky lemmings are currently upvoting!”
Getting to the core issue, of course we’re sick of AI, and have a negative opinion of it! It’s being forced into every product, whether it makes sense or not. It’s literally taking developer jobs, then doing worse. It’s burning fossil fuels and VC money and then hallucinating nonsense, but still it’s being jammed down our throats when the vast memory of us see no use-case or benefit from it. But feel free to roll your eyes at those acknowledging the truth…
What is the gaslighting here? A trend, or the act of pointing out a trend, do not seem like gaslighting to me. At most it seems like bandwagon propaganda or the satire thereof.
For the second paragraph, I agree we (Lemmings) are all pretty against it and we can be echo-chambery about it. You know, like Linux!
But I would also DISagree that we (population of earth) are all against it.
It seems like the most immature and toxic thing to me to invoke terms like “gaslighting,” ironically “toxic,” and all the other terms you associate with these folks, defensively and for any reason, whether it aligns with what the word actually means or not. Like a magic phrase that instantly makes the person you use it against evil, manipulative and abusive, and the person that uses it a moral saint and vulnerable victim. While indirectly muting all those who have genuine uses for the terms. Or i’m just going mad exaggerating, and it’s just the typical over- and mis-using of words.
Anyhow, sadly necessary disclaimer, i agree with almost all of the current criticism raised against AI, and my disagreements are purely against mischaracterizations of the underlying technology.
Are you honestly claiming a shitpost is gaslighting?
What a world we live in.
It’s just a joke bro.
<.< The person I replied to was joking? Because it definitely doesn’t come off that way.
I was talking about how shitposting on reddit became a cesspool because people started to post actual shit takes and then claim “it’s just a joke bro” when called out on it. I’m starting to see the same thing here in Lemmy; this post being an example. I’d rather this community didn’t get overrun by chuds.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
it’s literally making its users nuts, or exacerbating their existing mental illness. not hyperbole, according to psychologists. and this isn’t conjecture:
psychologytoday.com/…/can-ai-chatbots-worsen-psyc…
rollingstone.com/…/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroy…
futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-healt…
archive.is/Tv4Rr
futurism.com/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686326/
lavocedinewyork.com/…/when-the-machine-takes-over…
bytefeed.ai/…/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-induced-…
papsychotherapy.org/…/when-the-chatbot-becomes-th…)