Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds

Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• iopq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The vaccine saved millions of lives, yet people will be cynical despite reality

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like anti-vaccine groups have been around for a good chunk of time, but they certainly seemed to get a boost from the internet.

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    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There has been anti-vaccine groups since the invention of vaccines.

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      • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shit, there were people killing doctors over getting sick since there were doctors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera_riots

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the only boost they would get

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      • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

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    • rayyyy@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn't help that big corporations promoted 100% hydrogenated Crisco as a healthy alternative to lard or the drug Thalidomide that caused horrible birth defects.
      People need to be informed but many are swamped with the task of making a living and constant social "guidance".

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  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, anti-vaxxers probably know more death among their family and friends making them cynical.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If more of your family and friends are dying why would you avoid the ounce of prevention? That doesn’t make sense

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      • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They wouldn't attribute it to the virus but something like 5G radiation.

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• raktheundead@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's also worth noting that the same VCs who backed cryptocurrency have pivoted to generative AI. It's all part of the same grift, just with different clothes.

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  • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most major companies didn’t touch crypto with a 10ft pole, but they’ve leapt at the chance to use AI tech. I don’t think it’s the same grift at all personally.

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    • raktheundead@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of companies investigated cryptocurrency obliquely; "blockchain" was the hype word for several years in tech. And several of those companies had a serious sunk-cost fallacy going when they perpetuated their blockchain projects, despite blockchain only at best being a case of Worse Is Better, where a solution that sucks, but exists can be better than a perfect option that doesn't.

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      • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I agree with you that blockchain and cryptocurrency is a scam and has no uses, and I know that several tech companies sprung up to try to make a profit/scam people with “blockchain” tech. But Google/Microsoft/etc never went for those, whereas they are using AI tech. I don’t think LLM’s/AI’s are a fad or a scam, I think there’s genuine use cases for them.

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• Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am really dissapointed that crypto became synonymous with speculative “investing.” The core blockchain technology seems like it could be useful for enhancing privacy online. However, the majority of groups loudly advertising that they use crypto are exploitative money grabs.

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• kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t hurt that the same companies that did all the things that made people cynical about technologies are the ones perpetrating this round of BS

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