Of course everyone hates AI. For most people, it's actively making their lives worse, not better.<p>AI is a really effective technology when used with restraint, in appropriate places. But it's rarely being used with restraint, and it's being inserted just about everywhere.<p>If you're trying to work in AI on a product related to education, you've got a really high bar to clear to prove that you're actually helping students learn better, and teachers teach better.
No saying you're wrong but how is it making their lives worse?<p>Most people know use AI for basic applications and seem to enjoy it while the people I know who hate it all seem to be idelogically motivated (seemingly this is a cause de célèbre on the left right now?)
My partner cried the other day because her long-planned PC upgrade is now an order of magnitude more expensive than she budgeted for pre-AI-boom.
> No saying you're wrong but how is it making their lives worse?<p>Data centers and their side effects (higher electricity prices, etc) and job layoffs attributed to AI; plus a bunch of industry specific objections (like say, how it's currently destroying the educational system).<p>> Most people know use AI for basic applications and seem to enjoy it<p>Not sure what crowd you're running with. Myself and coworkers use AI and are generally positive about its effect on our productivity. But I don't think they'd say they 'enjoy' it, and we're probably the _best_ case. Who in the world 'enjoys' using AI?
The AI slop that's everywhere is making it worse. Even if someone doesn't care about AI, their feeds (YT, Instagram, LinkedIn) is now filled with AI slop
Everyone I know loves AI. It is actively making their lives better. All kinds of people, all kind of ages - universally love it and use it every day for all kind of stuff (shopping, health, learning, home improvement, etc, etc).
You must live in a bubble; 14% of Americans think AI is making their lives better, the remainder are evenly split between not knowing and disliking it.<p>It's still inevitable, but people aren't dumb, and they know that it's only going to help those who manage to escape the permanent underclass. It'll be amazing for the people on the rising edge, who manage to avoid the worst of it, though.
The only thing more annoying than ai boosters is aai self-haters. Either use it and shut up or don't use it. It's like when people are all like 'oh I know that I should really be vegan but im not mentally strong enough'
> Either use it and shut up or don't use it.<p>Many people do not have a choice to not use it at their jobs due to internal mandates. Regardless of their own use, many people are subjected to externalized cost of AI proliferation (data centers, layoffs, electrical bills, etc).<p>One cannot choose to not be affected by it. But even if one were personally not at all affected by it, it is still reasonable for someone to push back against what they see as a negative effect on society, even if it's not hitting them personally. Climate change's effect on me personally is pretty minimal, and I still deeply care about it.
I think this is the wrong attitude to have. There is moral complexity in these topics and it's better for people to openly share their concerns rather than pick a side and "shut up". Yes you might find it annoying, but that's really your problem, not theirs.
AI is awesome as a consumer. You can just build whatever bespoke thing you want. It can walk you through a myriad of home improvement projects.
> I want to figure out how to use AI in ways that protect human creativity, autonomy, and problem-solving<p>I think this is an admirable goal but I'd be curious how the author plans to even begin approaching it. It seems to me that this ship has sailed. Generative AI is here now, which is seems like it will lead us down a lowest common denominator path, not an enlightened one. How do we "protect human creativity, autonomy, and problem-solving" in the face of technology that is undermining all three, and it's too late to get out in front of?
This just reads like a poor attempt at convincing themselves that they didn't become what they hate.<p>I hate AI and I work on an AI project. I use it only where there is no viable alternative and where it is safe and sensible, which means it's just another tool, not some sort of oracle used to supposedly solve everything. That makes me not hate AI in the context of this project.
My FIRST question when anybody brings up scientific/software ethics is:<p>Whose ethics? What are the axioms? What are the exceptions? How do you handle paradoxes?<p>Most of the time, it's just some shitty corporate "ethics" with: make money at all costs but don't let the company look bad.