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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 118 points 2 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (56 children)

Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of LLM and Ai slop?

Ai is literally making people dumber:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/

They are a massive privacy risk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s

https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-data-about-you-from-all-your-devices-heres-how-to-be-aware-of-what-youre-revealing-251693

Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:

https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

And they are a massive environmental disaster:

https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/

Stop being a corporate apologist and stop wreaking the environment with this shit technology.

Edit: thank you to every Ai apologist outing themselves in the comments. Thank you for making blocking you easy.

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 127 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Now see, I like the idea of AI.

What I don't like are the implications, and the current reality of AI.

I see businesses embracing AI without fully understanding the limits. Stopping the hiring juniors developers, often firing large numbers of seniors because they think AI, a group of cheap post grad vibe programmers and a handful of seasoned seniors will equal the workforce they got rid of when AI, while very good is not ready to sustain this. It is destroying the career progression for the industry and even if/when they realise it was a mistake, it might already have devastated the industry by then.

I see the large tech companies tearing through the web illegally sucking up anything they can access to pull into their ever more costly models with zero regard to the effects on the economy, the cost to the servers they are hitting, or the environment from the huge power draw creating these models requires.

It's a nice idea, but private business cannot be trusted to do this right, we're seeing how to do it wrong, live before our eyes.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 36 points 3 days ago (12 children)

And the whole AI industry is holding up the stock market, while AI has historically always ran the hype cycle and crashed into an AI winter. Stock markets do crash after billions pumped into a sector suddenly turn out to be not worth as much. Almost none of these AI companies run a profit and don't have any prospect of becoming profitable. It's when everybody starts yelling that this time it's different that things really become dangerous.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

and don't have any prospect of becoming profitable

There's a real twist here in regards to OpenAI.

They have some kind of weird corporate structure where OpenAI is a non-profit and it owns a for-profit arm. But, the deal they have with Softbank is that they have to transition to a for-profit by the end of the year or they lose out on the $40 billion Softbank invested. If they don't manage to do that, Softbank can withhold something like $20B of the $40B which would be catastrophic for OpenAI. Transitioning to a For-Profit is not something that can realistically be done by the end of the year, even if everybody agreed on that transition, and key people don't agree on it.

The whole bubble is going to pop soon, IMO.

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (23 children)

The problem isn't AI. The problem is Capitalism.

The problem is always Capitalism.

AI, Climate Change, rising fascism, all our problems are because of capitalism.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lots of AI is technologically interesting and has tons of potential, but this kind of chatbot and image/video generation stuff we got now is just dumb.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

I firmly believe we won't get most of the interesting, "good" AI until after this current AI bubble bursts and goes down in flames. Once AI hardware is cheap interesting people will use it to make cool things. But right now, the big players in the space are drowning out anyone who might do real AI work that has potential, by throwing more and more hardware and money at LLMs and generative AI models because they don't understand the technology and see it as a way to get rich and powerful quickly.

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[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not all AI is bad. But there’s enough widespread AI that’s helping cut jobs, spreading misinformation (or in some cases, actual propaganda), creating deepfakes, etc, that in many people’s eyes, it paints a bad picture of AI overall. I also don’t trust AI because it’s almost exclusively owned by far right billionaires.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its true. We can have a nuanced view. Im just so fucking sick of the paid off media hyping this shit, and normies thinking its the best thing ever when they know NOTHING about it. And the absolute blind trust and corpo worship make me physically ill.

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Distributed platform owned by no one founded by people who support individual control of data and content access

Majority of users are proponents of owning what one makes and supporting those who create art and entertainment

AI industry shits on above comments by harvesting private data and creative work without consent or compensation, along with being a money, energy, and attention tar pit

Buddy, do you know what you're here for?

EDIT: removed bot accusation, forgot to check user history

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[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 days ago (38 children)

How people dare not like the automatic bullshit machine pushed down their troat...

Seriously, genrative AI acomplishment are :

  • Making mass spam easier
  • Burning the planet
  • Making people lose their job and not even being a decent solution
  • Make all search engine and information sources worse
  • Creating an economic bubble that will fuckup the economy even harder
  • Easing mass surveillance and weakening privacy everywhere
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[–] Mostly_Roblox@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (41 children)

I personally think of AI as a tool, what matters is how you use it. I like to think of it like a hammer. You could use a hammer to build a house, or you could smash someone's skull in with it. But no one's putting the hammer in jail.

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