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I mean, I was a massive AI enthusiast before the hype, playing with GPT-J, GAN models and such.
...And AI is definitely a bubble that's going to die. It's completely ridiculous.
It doesn't mean it will go away, but tech bros have hyped it way beyond what it actually is: a set of extremely useful tools.
You are kinda right, Lemmy (and the left wing) is pretty extreme on the machine learning hate, but "AI" is like 95% fud right now.
Yeah... I think most people mistake hating ai from hating the way it is implemented.
There are plenty of really good reasons to hate ai for the way it is being implemented (plagiarism for one). Or shitty companies replacing good employees that do a better job than an ai just for cost saving (short term profit, shareholders above anything).
I believe ai can be usefull especially for doing menial repetitive tasks. And it should be possible to implement ai in an ethical way so it can benefit anyone and not just leech.
But currently big tech is implementing it in a shitty way and they will find a way to enshittify ai (just like they did with social media).
Everyone is being lured in with "free" queries and when everyone is "addicted" and all of the competition has either gone bankrupt or bought they'll start charging money and make the service worse.
Another thing is people focusing on the "AI vs anti-AI" argument and overlooking the "open source vs close corporate AI" war going on.
There's a very narrow window to solidify "personal" AI before the giants capture the market and snuff everything else out. Its future is either useful tools you run on your phone/PC (or maybe in P2P swarms or among highly competitive API hosts), or it's what you described: shitty, unethical, corporate UIs that ruin everything.
Lemmy vs Reddit (and simply being 'anti-Reddit' obscuring that) is an apt analogy.
It's why, to be blunt, the broad liberal "anti AI" stance really annoys me. It feels like everyone shooting themselves in the foot.