Soatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

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Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

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Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
(Before anyone complains about the goatse with incorrect numbers of fingers: The other obvious parody of OpenAI's logo is a hate symbol and I didn't want to go with that.)
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
Oops.
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
Hacker News and its vaunted "meritocracy", folks:
Show threadHeathen 🐈May 5, 2025
@soatok
I take a lot of people MORE seriously when I know they're a furry. It usually means they're not trying to sell me (or a venture capitalist) on some baseless bullshit.
Show threadcrypticcelery 🔙 EH23
@heathen_cat @soatok yeah.
In most cases, I would even say this about most people who are fine with being (some form of) openly "different" (or weird, in the positive sense, or ...). Usually a good sign when they don't put up façades or wear (metaphorical) masks.
Also relaxing to encounter these people, at least for some you can feel it too, that feeling of them not expecting you to pretend too.
May 5, 2025 at 7:18pmWeb