Roughly 50% of transgender and/or non-binary people are software developers and roughly 50% are furry artists, so it makes sense we would be more wary of AI.
I use arch, btw.
Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows
Submitted 5 hours ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
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svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 minutes ago
seralth@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
Never anger the cook, the janitor, or the handyman or some such.
But also never anger the gay bi sexual half kitsune half dragon werewolf that controls your access to the internet.
DO provide them with warm rocks to bask on and loads of weed and warm blankets. Bonus points if you can provide these things with out having to have direct communication and tire their social battery out.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 59 minutes ago
Smart bunch it would seem.
Fuck AI
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Only corporate executives benefit from AI.
Everyone else is harmed, both directly and indirectly, and it makes the customer experience far worse because workers are replaced by chatbots that are incapable of understanding.
From what I’ve seen, the only people that have a positive view of AI are those who see themselves as the master of others. The trans, nonbinary, & disabled people in this study are very unlikely to fit that mold.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Sorry cis male here I find AI negatively. This article is bullshit trying to separate us. We should all be appalled by AI.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
The survey concludes that transgender, non-binary and disabled people tend to view AI more negatively than others. Nothing about this statistical result implies that there aren’t plenty of people in other groups, like you, who view AI negatively. It makes a claim about statistical trends.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
“more likely”
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 hours ago
God, the number of people here who don’t know what “more likely” means is insane. Just because you aren’t trans, enby or disabled doesn’t mean the study is bullshit because you hate AI. It means that if you walk up to a random person and ask them about AI, they’re more likely to hate it if they exist in one of those groups.
Secondly, studies like this have value because they can clue people into issues that a community is having. If everyone is neutral about a thing, except for disabled people (who hate it), then maybe that means that the thing is having a disproportionately negative impact on disabled people. Studies like this are not unlike saying “hey, there’s smoke over there, there might be a fire.”
paultimate14@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The thing is, EVERYONE hates AI except for a very small number of executives and the few tech people who are falling for the bullshit the same way so many fell for crypto.
It’s like saying a survey indicates that trans people are more likely to hate American ISP’s. Everyone hates them and trans people are underrepresented in the population of ISP shareholders and executives. It doesn’t say anything about the trans community. It doesn’t provide any actionable or useful information.
It’s stating something uninteresting but applying a coat of rainbow paint to try to get clicks and engagement.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
No, it’s interesting.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
Oppressed people don’t like the walled garden information tools made and profited from by the people using them as a scapegoat distraction for their fleecing of society?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 hour ago
ITT: “this study doesn’t say anything interesting about ME, it must be bullshit!!”
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Trans lady here, appalled by AI! A lot of the middle management I work with are eager for it, and since I work in M365 administration, my boss keeps compelling me to flip the CoPilot switch to “on” for people.
I hate it.
Sertou@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Human being checking in here, I am appalled by the current usage of AI.
This study is bullshit.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Why is a statistical survey bullshit because of your personal view on the matter? Where does the survey conclude that no one is appalled by AI? Where does it imply that transgender, nonbinary and disabled people are the only ones who dislike AI?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Because it singles people out for no reason. There is absolutely no reason to do a study like this that focuses on marginalized groups. Does this study make these marginalized groups lives better somehow by putting this information out there? Not a chance.
Research for the sake of doing research is assinine, and its rampant in academia. We have a publish or perish attitude in academia that is so pervasive its sickening…ask me how I know that (my partner is a professor)
And we basically all but force people to write papers and try to come up with novelty to justify their existence as a professor.
AI is a scourge on this earth in how we use it today. We didnt need a study to tell us that, much less to single out a few groups of people, who frankly dont need to be singled out anymore than they already have been by the Trump administration.
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
The whole thing is done is bad faith to make a correlation that isn’t there. I just conducted a study that says people are always cats. My study doesn’t show any actual correlation but I think I once heard that a cat man exists so there is potential for study.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It does feel a bit like the magazine is gunning for the “Don’t like AI? What are you, queer?” angle.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
“more likely”
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
it's because we actually listened to the plot of the matrix
poke@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I wonder if the correlation is that these groups tend to be more informed.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
No, it’s that AI has a white male bias.
db2@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m none of those things and so-called AI is utter shit.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Same way the other way around. Remember when grok went full mechahitler?
morto@piefed.social 3 hours ago
That's interesting. I feel like a lone voice in my university, trying to explain to people that using LLMs to do research tasks isn't a good idea for several reasons, but I'd never imagine that being disabled would put me into a group more likely to think like that. If I had to guess, I'd suggest that there's possibly a strong network effect being abused in our social environment to make people get into the AI hype, and we, the ones who live less connected to the "standard" social norms, tend to become less vulnerable to it.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
It may also be that disabled, transgender and nonbinary people are more aware of:
- The use of AI to reduce people’s employment opportunities, which are already tough enough for people in these groups.
- The tendency of AI to reproduce the prejudices present in its training materials. If everyone’s relying on AI then these prejudices are going to be perpetuated just because LLMs are regurgitation machines.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Hi. Haven’t read the article. Straight middle aged white guy here. I too also view AI negatively.
If trans, nonbinary, or disabled people view AI negatively, it’s not because they’re trans, nonbinary or disabled. It’s because AI is terrible, and threatens (and already is proving to) make all of our lives terrible for the sole sake of giving billionaires a few extra pennies.
Though I will say, if trans, nonbinary and disabled people have any extra issues with AI making their life specifically worse, that’s not caused by AI itself. It’s caused by the wealthy CHOOSING to use AI to make their lives worse.
This doesn’t need to happen. None of this needs to happen. Google doesn’t need entire campuses dedicated to AI with special power requirements. This is all bullshit.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
The survey discovered that people in those groups are more likely to view AI negatively than those in other groups.
If trans, nonbinary, or disabled people view AI negatively, it’s not because they’re trans, nonbinary or disabled. It’s because AI is terrible, and threatens (and already is proving to) make all of our lives terrible for the sole sake of giving billionaires a few extra pennies.
People in these groups may have different or additional reasons for viewing AI negatively that are not common to other groups. It’s a question for further research why they tend to view AI more negatively. It might very well be because they’re trans, nonbinary or disabled - perhaps for conscious reasons or perhaps because of other factors. The survey shows that there are more questions to be asked and that it would be worth paying attention to the experiences of these groups.
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
TIL, I am transgender, non binary and disabled. That is why I hate AI slop.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You are committing a logical fallacy called “affirming the consequent”.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 57 minutes ago
Makes sense.
These systems exist to sand off the rough edges of real life artifacts and interactions, and these are people who’ve spent their whole lives being treated like an imperfection that just needs to be smoothed out.
Why would you not be wary?