https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/12/18/the-dark-side-of-ai-tracking-the-decline-of-human-cognitive-skills/

Well, you can support anything, for example even the Nazis who shot Jewish children.

The only thing that awaits you is the consequences, the rest is not important, it is your choice.

You know it’s ok for everyone to dislike a thing if the thing is legitimately terrible, right? Like dissent for dissent’s sake is not objectively desirable.

Also pro-child-slavery. Women should be locked in boxes all day. Billionaires get to pee in everyone's food at the table.

These are the counterpoints that make a robust debate!

I'm not really pro or anti. I use it with appropriate skepticism for certain types of things. I can see how it is extremely problematic in various ways. I would prefer it didn't exist but it does provide utility and it's not going away. I find a lot of the anti crowd to often be kind of silly and childish in a similar way as the extremists in the pro crowd, you can tell they really want to believe what they believe and critical thinking doesn't seem to come into it much.

There was a very common consensus that television wasn’t bad because it hasn’t affected me. Or advertising isn’t bad because “people can make up their own minds”. So we let it go.

That letting it go allowed Fox News and Talk radio and online nazis to destroy American democracy in six months. Yes it took a few decades to get up to speed, but here we are now.

That’s what the AI discussion is like to me.

Well, yes, many people use it, you are right, and how can I say it... You can enjoy anything, even build houses from your hair, but when it is done for you, it is somehow boring, or something inside says: "yes, it is beautiful, but what is the point?" How can you value something that has no human effort or soul?

It's like you enjoy the slop like some guy eating pizza and drinking beer while watching a football match. It can be compared to fast food and tasty but unhealthy food.

Oh yes, soon we will live in techno-feudalism where we will return to our roots, so to speak. :3

And yes, you are damn right.

No, no, no. You see, you're just too "out of the loop" to appreciate that it's a part of our lives now and you should just be quiet and use it. Apparently.

At least that's a few people's takes on here. So weird.

Lemmy is a lost cause for nuanced takes on "AI". It's all just rage now.

I think framing them as "fears" is dishonest.

"yet this is what breaks this person's brain?".

"AI fears are so overblown".

"some people are really overreacting".

Sure this little subset of the internet is aware that LLMs arent going to cut the mustard. But the general population isn't, and that's the problem. Companies are forcing LLMs on staff and customers alike. Someone suggesting that this is being managed appropriately and sustainably is either ill-informed, or intentionally misleading people.