• T3CHT @sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Here here. This place doesn’t have much rational thoughts on AI.

    I’m (a little) surprised how group think this place is on the topic - y’all are a serious echo chamber. This place is like rainbow flags and kill the bots central. Any pro AI counterpoint mentions bring pitch forks and hate. That’s not a good look.

    Maybe I’m an AI bro myself, but I’m also an experienced professional using it to do real work (and no, not taking any jobs, building new tools for a team that needs them). Linus is a real expert. But why listen to experience and expertise when you have an opinion and feel justified. It’s ok to be afraid, but when scary change comes wise folks listen and learn.

    Here we don’t worry about facts and reality, just get your outrage revved up. Social media is social media - and that’s scarier than AI, because it uses people to make the garbage.

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      4 hours ago

      My worry is that the people we need engaged on AI because they have a healthy mindset to question and wrangle it, are instead being forced to ignore AI or pledge to be anti AI by their social circles and customers.

      So instead we have absolute Kool aid drinkers driving the AI adoption.

      We went through this with the internet but I think a lot of folks now are too young to remember it and unsurprisingly the people who were anti internet didn’t store their concerns and complaints in the currently used modern repository of all knowledge.

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
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        2 hours ago

        “are instead being forced ot ignore ai or pledge to be anti ai by their social circles and customers.”

        umm. im pretty sure you don’t need to worry about that.

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          39 minutes ago

          Why? I consistently see these anti AI purity tests come up.

          We need people who are skeptical to engage on AI.

          People hate technology and change. Before AI it was smartphones. Before smartphones it was photoshop/digital art and CGI. Before CGI it was the Internet. Before Internet it was TV. Before TV it was cars. Before cars it was industry. Before industry it was books.

          Someone probably was anti cave paintings because it ruined the skill of passing down the stories by word of mouth.

          Something is always coming along that is both horrible for society as it is and something we come to accept as common place. You can want to return to our roots but even that I guarantee you would still pick some level of technology you don’t want to do without.

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            24 minutes ago

            because people with a healthy mindset are not going to influenced or coerced by social circles. maybe their customers but that only applies to that customers deliverable.