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No, I don't think it's really bad. Most of the world doesn't care. Only in a small tech niche on the internet do they care a lot.
by aurareturn 11mo ago
No, I don't think it's really bad. Most of the world doesn't care. Only in a small tech niche on the internet do they care a lot.
- isodev 11mo agoAre you sure? Because most of the world also doesn’t know how “this cloud thing” works… I think we need global, EU style consumer and data protection constraints before stepping into LLM-powered ads through personal assistants.
- LastTrain 11mo agoI just got back from Thanksgiving holiday with my family. Grade schools kids all the way up to great grandparents up to 81 years old. Engineers, active military, a nurse, high schoolers, two in college. Both coasts represented and Texas. Republicans, Democrats, and in-between. The one and only thing every single person had in common was an utter hatred of AI. And it wasn’t for a lack of understanding of how it will be used.
- fn-mote 11mo agoHatred of AI won’t stop others from steamrolling them and their jobs using AI. At this point, I have stopped hoping that LLMs will become vaporware.
- lII1lIlI11ll 11mo agoI wouldn't bet on LLMs steamrolling jobs of a nurse or military personnel any time soon.
- LastTrain 11mo agoThere are so many more reasons to hate AI than just “it is taking my job”. But even if we’re just sticking to that, some people don’t like that it will replace their co workers, neighbors or family members job.
- LastTrain 11mo agoI found myself thinking AI would make the perfect scapegoat for an enterprising political party. There is a lot of animus to tap into there.
- senordevnyc 11mo agoHow do you reconcile this with: 1. The absolute explosion of AI usage (revealed preferences) 2. The polling on AI, which is mixed and reveals lots of pessimism and fear among a slight majority of Americans, but hardly universal “utter hatred”. My guess is some combo of: your family is not representative, the hatred was not as universal as it appeared (bandwagon effect), or your own hatred of AI caused you to focus on the like-minded opinions shared and ignore any contrary evidence.
- LastTrain 11mo agoI don’t reconcile it, I was giving an anecdote, one that would seem to easily fit in with your personal summary of some poll you read about.
- senordevnyc 11mo agoNo, the polls I’ve seen are more like 50/50, not the kind of universal utter hatred you’re portraying here. Color me skeptical.
- LastTrain 11mo agoWhat polls are you referring to? We did a non-anonymous poll at work which went something like “has using AI tool X made you more productive”, and the results were something like 50/50. If you asked my thanksgiving holiday crowd something like that you might get mixed results. If you asked them is AI an agent of good, do you trust what is happening with AI it would all be negative. People don’t like it.
- senordevnyc 11mo agoJust one example: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/ https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans... Again, more pessimistic than not, but hardly universal hatred
- array_key_first 11mo agoThe part of the world who have experienced genocide because of Meta and their ad model cares.
- footy 11mo agomost of the world not caring doesn't mean it's not bad.