Comment on Why do people hate AI so much?
Oka@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Imagine a shitty robot was just made available for free.
The shitty robot replaces you at work. It performs way faster with worse results, but the company hires a robot “expert” that fixes the results just enough that the product appears to be working. (Its not). You are now starving.
The shitty robot tells your kids that porn is a viable career path. And that they should kill themselves.
The shitty robot starts showing up everywhere, in advertising, TV shows, customer support lines, schools.
The shitty robot makes shitty art really fast, which people can sell or use how they want. Artists are now starving.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Think of how shitty and scam filled the early internet was. Did we abandon it because of how shitty it was at first, or did we develop it and tweak it to it’s full potential?
I mean, even Linus Torvalds acknowledges the benefits ffs
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
It wasn’t though… That was mid to late term internet
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
This clearly shows that you are willing to talk out of your ass. The early Internet was filled with some of the smartest people alive, the mass of shitty content did not arrive yet because it wasn’t accessible to the masses. At the beginning, the Internet was literally only scientists. A little later, it was only very open people not scared to try something new and excited about the future and about foreign cultures, with corresponding amazing content.
Only after this initial period, when the internet became commonly used, did it turn shit. Stop trying to manifacture arguments for your position and truly do what you acted like setting out to do, understand other people’s concerns.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 13 hours ago
You’re acting like we are at the “beginning” of AI, when the early days of AI happened around the same time as the Internet started.
In any case, your argument is less of an argument against AI and more or an argument against mass adoption and co-optation of technology by corporations. See enshittification.
ylph@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I have been on the internet since 1992, and the internet today is by far the shittiest and most scam infested it has ever been in my time (and I doubt it was worse in the 80s)
Few things make me more depressed than thinking about the evolution of the internet, from where it started to where it is today.
I don’t doubt AI will follow a similar path, except somehow it is already starting in a much worse place than the internet ever did, and the downside potential is far greater and frightening.
JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
We did exactly the opposite of what you say, we monitized the scams and turned to entire internet into an scam-ad infested wasteland of the greed of 10 people at the cost of driving the rest of humanity to mindless addictions, grooming, and manipulating human psyche to eek out more money and mass-propagandize.
The majority of the internet is 10x worse than it was 10 or 20 years ago.
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
You are a fucking idiot
rabiezaater@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Oh, ok. That really makes me think AI is the villain and the fediverse is the bastion of morality and civility. /s.