I don’t think people hate AI per se - they hate big tech, and what big tech is doing with it. That’s a legitimate gripe, but it’s not the same thing as the technology being bad.

AI used well can be genuinely useful. I’ve dropped a couple of examples in other threads I won’t rehash here, but the short version is: there are real world uses for this tech (world modelling, medicine, robotics).

Hell I built clinical notes pipeline that takes the tedium of charting from 15-20 mins down to about 3, with a policy gate that rejects LLM output before it ever reaches me if it fails criteria I defined. None that looks anything like the slop-firehose corporate rollout most people are reacting to.

lemmy.world/post/42920187/22058968

lemmy.world/post/44188294/22635793

Worth noting too: taking a black-and-white position on anything is just less cognitively expensive than arriving at a nuanced one. That’s not a character flaw, that’s called “being human”. But that doesn’t mean the nuanced position is wrong.

PS: The electricity/water data centre stuff is maybe more complicated than the headline takes suggest. This might be worth actually reading before treating it as settled.

blog.andymasley.com/…/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversat…

YMMV and ICBW