Has there ever been a sustained backlash and doubt about a new big technology like what we are seeing with AI? Where the most vocal critics are tech people?

It's similar to bitcoin, to NFTs...

It's also similar to the internet-connected device trend, though I don't remember the resistance and doubt to that being as intense. I was mostly very excited about "the internet of things" I still put wifi in places where it doesn't belong with the most flimsy of excuses.

It's just really unusual to hear some of my biggest "early adopter" friends filled with bile for AI. And well I'm right there with them. I'm irritated most by the dishonesty of the claims about what it can do. With "internet of things" the objection was not "you can't track your water bottle on the internet, it won't work the way you describe" it was more like "why would you want to do that?" and "your data will be sold to companies, you will be spied on"

Both proved to be correct.

@futurebird I like the idea of my things talking to each other. It’s the talking to the corporation in the middle that bothers me. It’s like they are selling man in the middle attack as a service.

@pdkoenig

MIM attacks as a service?

@futurebird Server in the middle to make it work also gets your data.