I work in the AI world and understand a lot of reasons to hate AI (like how every company is trying to ram it down people’s throats). However I am genuinely curious why the hate is so popular, and what arguments/opinions people have, and would like to hear the discussion.
Even advertising, which is forced on everyone and disliked, doesn’t seem to get as vocal a response for hate.
Why do you hate AI? Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?
After reading comments:
I am thinking it’s simply:
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Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list.
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Be forced into everyone’s life and media constantly.
Like a similar psychological phenomenon to when Nickelback was hated, but magnified by being more serious and grounded.
I think that we should also be careful with where the hate is directed, since modelling learning of distributed systems at scale is very essential science and technology to be able to understand biology, physics, neuroscience, etc. The only way humanity currently scales new technologies unfortunately is through the capital machine, and the scale is a necessary component of this science.
I don’t hate AI as a technology/tool. I hate cloud-based and corporation driven/controlled AI. I hate that companies are shoving it down our throats and implementing it in the least useful and most destructive ways possible.
if I could get (for a reasonable price) a computer powerful enough to actually use some light agentic ai locally I could probably find a bunch of shit it would be genuinely helpful for. however, due to the current state of it all you can really do in most cases is rip off art or almost get a straight answer on a simple question, and it always goes through a massive datacenter halfway across the country (or globe, depending on where you are).