They also mindlessly broadcast whatever lies the CEOs of the big tech company’s are telling. Do you complain about that pattern too? No? You just don’t like anything negative about AI? Interesting.
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Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right, I see a handful of articles about the same handful of people. The hysteria is the media. Absolutely floored how no one else sees that the media is driving a weird campaign against AI. It’s creating opinions.
Feyd@programming.dev 2 days ago
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
They also mindlessly broadcast whatever lies the CEOs of the big tech company’s are telling.
LLMs? Want to give an example of this? When ChatGPT 5 came out I asked it what the “thinking built in” means and it told me it’s probably just a marketing term.
Feyd@programming.dev 2 days ago
Mainstream media. For instance when Dario Amodei says AI is going to replace x% of jobs by 2027 the media prints it and doesn’t ask why he thinks that or ask where the numbers come from. It’s wild speculation and it does not get treated as such.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t care.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fear mongering at its best but honest, the fear of AI is warranted. Especially when goat fuckers like Musk are central in their creation.
Grok anyone?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yea I agree fully that having individuals that own the one or two platforms is bad.
I don’t think much of the fear and panic is warranted though.
Honestly view these headlines the same way you’d view headlines about any other bullshit hysteria that media drums up. It’s all so weirdly familiar.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 days ago
This is so similar to crypto to me. The base technology and idea is great but many of the implementations are problematic and I have high hopes for it with free software, not for profit, and more boring uses around it.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ok good example. The left took a hard stance. The right adopted it. A lot of right wing people made a lot of money with it regardless of its practicalness. They used that money to invest in each other.
The left somehow has become Luddites and they’re falling behind yet don’t see how that mentality is holding hobbling their progress
devolution@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The media hasn’t been legitimate since 2010.
Example: CNN = Breaking News! Cow sneezes on side of road.
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I don’t necessarily think the MM is intentionality going against AI, they’re just following what drives engagement and the mainstream tide is turning against AI (again, AI winter 3.0, here we go).
However, I did see that “AI causes delusions” article in the NYT together with the very hilarious conflict of interest notice: “The NYT is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.”
So who knows? It is entirely in the MM’s interests to both write about AI (hot topic, much engagement) and also to make the AI companies look incompetent, reckless, and dangerous because that bolsters their cases against them.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
no one else sees that the media is driving a weird campaign against AI
Media criticism tends to fly out the window the moment the narrative aligns with someone’s personal views. Echo chambers can be hard to recognize once you’re inside one. If I didn’t come to Lemmy, I’d barely even know that there are people who’ve made hating AI their whole identity - they seem to be nowhere to be found in the real world.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right most people I meet day to day are maybe a bit interested but don’t care much.
To me this is a chicken vs egg situation. I think a lot of people see this as the media responding to people.
I think it’s the other way around and I’m trying to understand why. To me, it looks certain that the media is agenda setting with AI. I watched this with the war on terror, anti immigration views, Ebola, imaginary waves of crime that never existed. I can see the headlines, the tone, the framing are all so similar. I just don’t understand why.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
it’s creating opinions
Yeah, just like AI, thats what the article is about
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Why is the media reporting on a thing that’s happening?
Why are multiple sites writing about the same topic?
Must be an anti-AI conspiracy.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
This is the same line of thinking that MAGAts have. “Why is all the media against Trump? There must be a conspiracy against him!”
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s happening in the same as that caravans of illegal immigrants are approaching the border
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Did your LLM tell you that?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I know, trump supporters say the same shit when you tell them they’re acting like clowns too