I wonder if the correlation is that these groups tend to be more informed.
Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows
Submitted 8 months ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
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poke@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No, it’s that AI has a white male bias.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which the minority groups are more informed about…
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
No, it’s interesting.
morto@piefed.social 8 months 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 8 months 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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
As an autistic bastard I just think it’s shit, though I will say that I do partake in the guilty pleasure of Two Scuffed and DougDoug. But I wouldn’t feel particularly bad if every bit of generative AI spontaneously corrupted and could never be replicated, generally feels like a money sink for dipshit corporations at this point.
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m none of those things and so-called AI is utter shit.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Human being checking in here, I am appalled by the current usage of AI.
This study is bullshit.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“more likely”
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 months 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?
Keyboard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m a cis white autistic girl I should say a 7 Thanks for the sharing very interesting
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It does feel a bit like the magazine is gunning for the “Don’t like AI? What are you, queer?” angle.
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 8 months 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.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 8 months 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.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Plenty of non-chatbots applications that do help the regular user though. Even if most of it is corporate bullshit, some of it isn’t.
Like for example VLC using it for subtitles on any video you have, in any language you want and automatically synced correctly. That they hallucinate a couple of times doesn’t really matter in that context.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sorry cis male here I find AI negatively. This article is bullshit trying to separate us. We should all be appalled by AI.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re probably overthinking this. To me it shows that this technology, which is often advertised as a tool to level the playing field and “democratize” industries is viewed as doing the exact opposite. Those who should benefit the most from it feel threatened and it looks like we’re moving closer to techno feudalism by the day as LLMs are squeezed into everything without thought. Fascists tend to love AI, use AI and advance AI. That makes the technology a natural enemy of many minorities.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“more likely”
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 months 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.
Sertou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Possibly… However, AI will be use to discriminate them as America ramps up their concentration camps for the undesirables.