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Have you been on Reddit recently? Anti-AI sentiment isn't limited to technical communities, but engaged with platform-wide. The hate is the content; apart from

by poly2it 5mo ago

Have you been on Reddit recently? Anti-AI sentiment isn't limited to technical communities, but engaged with platform-wide. The hate is the content; apart from the rampant anti-intellectualism there is very little engagement with any material discussing the technologies in and of themselves.

greggoB 5mo ago
I don't think you know what "mobilized" means - at least, it implies an actor with ulterior motives is driving this response in people. Usually political actors or the media are accused of this. What you're describing on Reddit sounds like a broad-based antipathy to AI, which is just... how a lot of people are feeling? You can criticise their motivation being based in emotions or vibes instead of facts and thoughts, but unless you have evidence to the contrary, it sounds like this is just where people are at on this topic.
- poly2it 5mo ago
  Of course I know what mobilised means, but with these social medias, the platforms themselves are at play in shaping the conversations. To clarify, I think this type of anti-AI sentiment should be studied as part of a the baseline social culture of the platforms. I do not have a good answer to why it flourishes on them, other than the generic framing. Perhaps its a new type of technological conservatism?
  - greggoB 5mo ago
    Some ideas for why people might be feeling this way: 1. People are naturally scared of major change. 2. AI has been pretty aggressively thrust on people, whether they like it or not. 3. There is a legitimate concern about widespread job loss, some companies have already claimed AI is the reason for mass layoffs. 4. Deepfakes, scams, cyber security risks, people AI psychosis or using it to commit suicide, etc - no doubt none of this helps with general public opinion. 5. Cannibalisation of the rest of the economy, e.g. RAM and GPU prices making gaming machines unaffordable, non-AI startups unable to get funding in this environment. 6. Hype fatigue - we've recently been through this with crypto. So to me the evidence points to anti-AI sentiment being more of a reactionary response to the current status quo, rather than some proactive effort to negate the technology.

by poly2it 5mo ago

greggoB 5mo ago

I don't think you know what "mobilized" means - at least, it implies an actor with ulterior motives is driving this response in people. Usually political actors or the media are accused of this. What you're describing on Reddit sounds like a broad-based antipathy to AI, which is just... how a lot of people are feeling? You can criticise their motivation being based in emotions or vibes instead of facts and thoughts, but unless you have evidence to the contrary, it sounds like this is just where people are at on this topic.

poly2it 5mo ago
Of course I know what mobilised means, but with these social medias, the platforms themselves are at play in shaping the conversations. To clarify, I think this type of anti-AI sentiment should be studied as part of a the baseline social culture of the platforms. I do not have a good answer to why it flourishes on them, other than the generic framing. Perhaps its a new type of technological conservatism?
- greggoB 5mo ago
  Some ideas for why people might be feeling this way: 1. People are naturally scared of major change. 2. AI has been pretty aggressively thrust on people, whether they like it or not. 3. There is a legitimate concern about widespread job loss, some companies have already claimed AI is the reason for mass layoffs. 4. Deepfakes, scams, cyber security risks, people AI psychosis or using it to commit suicide, etc - no doubt none of this helps with general public opinion. 5. Cannibalisation of the rest of the economy, e.g. RAM and GPU prices making gaming machines unaffordable, non-AI startups unable to get funding in this environment. 6. Hype fatigue - we've recently been through this with crypto. So to me the evidence points to anti-AI sentiment being more of a reactionary response to the current status quo, rather than some proactive effort to negate the technology.