• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Hank Green has earned the right, with me anyway, to have his point of view heard. And frankly he has more credibility with me than the garden variety pitchfork-wielding anti-AI mob. I think Hank is a person who finds AI interesting and sees upsides as well as downsides. But the aforementioned mob is not interested in anything other than the emotional catharsis of railing against something they hate.

    Now ask me if the mob is in the room with us, because it probably is.

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      5 days ago

      His AI use caused him so many problems in his private life that his family had to intervene. His point of view is “This technology has had a negative impact on my life and the lives of the people I care about”.

      Your pro-AI spiel is a bit tone deaf here

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        5 days ago

        But they didn’t say anything pro-AI. At most they were anti-anti-AI mob, which is just reasonable, as is with any “mob”. And I read mob here as mindless parrots that keep repeating talking points and hating for the sake of conformity.

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          5 days ago

          Being anti-anti something is being pro-something. That’s the beauty of the double negative.

          Also that’s just a very pro-AI user, so the intent can be inferred

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            3 days ago

            Being anti-anti something is being pro-something.

            Blatantly reductive. “Anti anti AI mob” means to be against the mob that is against AI, not to be for AI. Regardless of whether or not AI is a net harm, moral panics certainly are. You can oppose the moral panic while being for, against, or neutral towards AI generally.

            If you need to fuck around and misrepresent your opponents’ arguments, you’re not doing it right.

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            5 days ago

            You’re conflating two different somethings. Anti-AI mob is not the same as AI. Being against mob mentality doesn’t make you inherently pro AI.

            It’s possible to be pro or anti mob mentality and AI in various different combinations.

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            4 days ago

            I’m anti anything mob. The fucking groupthink on certain issues is real.

            I’m also anti people who make shit up and then try to sell it as a long strings of “inferences.”

            And after having AI shoved down my throat at work for two years while my teammates get laid off, I’m pretty anti AI too. At most I have direct experience with it that teaches me it has some uses, like summarization.

            You’re full of shit. You’ve been told. And you know it by now. But you’ll probably bleat on with more of the same because it’s all you know how to do. Proceed, I guess.

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            5 days ago

            That’s… Not how any of that works?! You can be anti chat bot llm, anti anti ai mob hater, and pro llm science and research bot.

            There’s more to the tech then just the chat bots the anti ai mob dipshits all seem to think of when llms come up.