rabiezaaterWhy do people hate AI so much?
https://piefed.social/c/nostupidquestions/p/1890446/why-do-people-hate-ai-so-much
Kills the planet
Steals from artists
Widens inequality
Puts people out of work
Reinforces prejudices
Makes us stupid
Makes everything generic
Blows up the economy
Supports oligarchs
Can’t be trusted, hallucinates and lies
Overhyped
Again, this is a lot of hyperbole.
Is AI killing the planet, or is capitalism and addiction to fossil fuels? If AI was 100 renewable and run based on community consent, would it still be “killing the planet”?
In what way does AI “steal” in any way more significantly than an artist uses another artist for inspiration or a coder uses another open source project for their code?
How does AI widen inequality worse than it has been already, and is that solely the result of AI or is it just a product of capitalism?
I could go through the entire list, but you get the idea. A lot of the “evils” of AI are actually just symptoms of deeper systemic issues that have nothing to do with AI itself.
Thanks for your reply. Here are my rebuttals:
Is AI killing the planet, or is capitalism and addiction to fossil fuels?
Capitalism was already killing the planet, but the rush to invest in AI has demonstrably accelerated it.
If AI was 100 renewable and run based on community consent, would it still be “killing the planet”?
No. But thats not the scenario we are in.
In what way does AI “steal” in any way more significantly than an artist uses another artist for inspiration or a coder uses another open source project for their code?
Because artists are people with consciousness and feeling and the capability for novel thought. AI is not. Believing it’s doing the same thing as human thinking is being suckered by the hype.
How does AI widen inequality worse than it has been already, and is that solely the result of AI or is it just a product of capitalism?
This is a big one, but without guardrails it’s definitely poised to hurt working people and enrich the powerful, which therefore drives further inequality (which yes, was already bad as a product of modern capitalism). And those guardrails are not in place, and will not be put into place if we just follow along as they want us to.