After watching what they did with social media you'd think everyone would give a bit of pause before swallowing another load from big tech but the people are guzzling it down, I have zero interest in being a beta tester for this dumb technology or talking to a machine.
I wish I could ask chat bots important questions and trust them. It would be really helpful.
I just think it's funny that "AI" (which is "artificial intelligence" not in the sense of "human-made" but in the sense of "fake") is contemperaneous with Trump.
This is going to go down in history (if humanity survives long enough) as the Idiot and Lunatic Age.
Right, I see a handful of articles about the same handful of people. The hysteria is the media. Absolutely floored how no one else sees that the media is driving a weird campaign against AI. It's creating opinions.
I'm not saying AI is great. But I am saying fucking media is doing a thing and more people should be asking why
They also mindlessly broadcast whatever lies the CEOs of the big tech company's are telling. Do you complain about that pattern too? No? You just don't like anything negative about AI? Interesting.
They also mindlessly broadcast whatever lies the CEOs of the big tech company’s are telling.
LLMs? Want to give an example of this? When ChatGPT 5 came out I asked it what the "thinking built in" means and it told me it's probably just a marketing term.
Mainstream media. For instance when Dario Amodei says AI is going to replace x% of jobs by 2027 the media prints it and doesn't ask why he thinks that or ask where the numbers come from. It's wild speculation and it does not get treated as such.
Don't care.
Fear mongering at its best but honestly, the fear of AI is warranted. Especially when goat fuckers like Musk are central in their creation.
Grok anyone?
Yea I agree fully that having individuals that own the one or two platforms is bad.
I don't think much of the fear and panic is warranted though.
Honestly view these headlines the same way you'd view headlines about any other bullshit hysteria that media drums up. It's all so weirdly familiar.
This is so similar to crypto to me. The base technology and idea is great but many of the implementations are problematic and I have high hopes for it with free software, not for profit, and more boring uses around it.
Ok good example. The left took a hard stance. The right adopted it. A lot of right wing people made a lot of money with it regardless of its practicalness. They used that money to invest in each other.
The left somehow has become Luddites and they're falling behind yet don't see how that mentality is holding hobbling their progress
Falling behind in what way? Financial advantage? I’m not sure that the left have ever had that. How would adopting AI aid the left’s cause?
He's correct. Leftists and Liberals (myself included) see the dangers of A.I. and have been hardcore against its current stage of implementation while moderates make shitty AI cat videos and MAGA use it for deepfakes and other means of misinformation at the touch of a button.
Yeah, I agree that the left and liberals are broadly opposed to AI, and the right dove in headfirst. I just don’t get how lacking the ability to spew shitty cat videos and deepfakes means we on the left are hampering our own progress.
One of my buddies hates everything AI because it "impedes the integrity of art." Went on a tirade about AI art being shit and everyone who uses it being shit as well.
(This as I made an AI threesome of Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin. I also made a ladies night with AOC, Hilary, and Kamala.)
But realistically, many on the lefts deal with AI is one part virtue signaling and many parts against how AI is being used to displace white collar workers with substandard service (Expedia, health care, etc).
Yeah its very similar to graft and extortion in that way. The left really needs to get onboard.
Extortion? How so?
something like have your media do a hit piece on my opponets son or I won't release the aid that im legally obligated to release.
The media hasn't been legitimate since 2010.
Example: CNN = Breaking News! Cow sneezes on side of road.
no one else sees that the media is driving a weird campaign against AI
Media criticism tends to fly out the window the moment the narrative aligns with someone’s personal views. Echo chambers can be hard to recognize once you’re inside one. If I didn’t come to Lemmy, I’d barely even know that there are people who’ve made hating AI their whole identity - they seem to be nowhere to be found in the real world.
Right most people I meet day to day are maybe a bit interested but don't care much.
To me this is a chicken vs egg situation. I think a lot of people see this as the media responding to people.
I think it's the other way around and I'm trying to understand why. To me, it looks certain that the media is agenda setting with AI. I watched this with the war on terror, anti immigration views, Ebola, imaginary waves of crime that never existed. I can see the headlines, the tone, the framing are all so similar. I just don't understand why. It's a powerful tool, my default opinion is always that this technology does balance some power in society and so by keeping it as a tool of the rich while the rest reject it is important culturally.
I don't necessarily think the MM is intentionality going against AI, they're just following what drives engagement and the mainstream tide is turning against AI (again, AI winter 3.0, here we go).
However, I did see that "AI causes delusions" article in the NYT together with the very hilarious conflict of interest notice: "The NYT is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement."
So who knows? It is entirely in the MM's interests to both write about AI (hot topic, much engagement) and also to make the AI companies look incompetent, reckless, and dangerous because that bolsters their cases against them.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
