botwiki.org4d ago

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116553522656332225

It is true. It is hard to overstate how unpopular this technology is outside of its dedicated userbase, and tech bros trying to hype it up.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-generative-ai/#consumer-sentiment

#AI #GenAI #enshittification

Show threadtangerine_sedge4d ago
@botwiki She's not wrong though - it's impact will be akin to the industrial revolution. One only has to see how the internet has fundamentally changed society in numerous ways, and AI will have a similar maybe even bigger impact. Whether you like AI or not, it will impact you, the question is - how are you preparing for the change.
Show threadTraiken3d ago
@tangerine_sedge @botwiki Just the framing alone is an issue, that "AI" is some inevitable force, and not a series of choices made by people out of ignorance, greed, or most destructive of all, a combination of the two.
Show threadtangerine_sedge
@Traiken @botwiki Those choices are being made whether we like them or not. AI is being rolled out whether we like it or not. Businesses will downsize whether we like it or not. Jobs will change whether we like it or not. Just stating that AI is stupid and wrong will not stop any of that happening. At this point, there is so much money invested in AI, that it will be implemented regardless. There will be change, there will be societal winners and societal losers, but it is coming whether we like it or not.
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Show threadStefan Bohacek3d ago

@tangerine_sedge

"whether we like it or not"

That's a very defeatist attitude. You might want to learn more about successful labor, environmentalist, feminist, and other social justice movements.

@Traiken @botwiki

Show threadtangerine_sedge3d ago
@stefan @Traiken @botwiki less defeatism and more realism. It's happening already.
Show threadTraiken3d ago

@tangerine_sedge @stefan @botwiki And it should stop. It deserves to be called out as the monstrously inhuman bullshit that it is. What's you goal, here? To acquiesce to a mass-polluting, water-wasting, billionaire-backed, art-stealing, slop-churning idiocy machine? Why spend your finite time on earth doing that?

If my voice does nothing but add a single decibel to the chorus shouting that AI sucks, I'm proud and happy to scream that righteous opinion in its entirely human-generated glory.