Comment by kevinsync

I can't tell how widespread any of is, to be honest.. mostly because it's anecdata, and impossible to determine if what I'm seeing is just ragebait, or shallow dunks by reply-guys in comment sections, or particularly-loud voices on social media that aren't representative of the majority opinion, etc

That said, the amount of sort-of-thoughtless, I'm-just-repeating-something-I-heard-but-don't-really-understand outrage towards AI that I'm seeing appears to be increasing -- "how many bottles of water did that slop image waste??", "Clanker"-adjacent memes and commentary (include self-driving + robots in this category), people ranting about broligarchs stealing art, music, movies, books to train their models (oddly often while also performatively parroting party lines about how Spotify rips artists off), all the way to refusing to interact with people on dating apps if they have anything AI in their profiles hahaha (file "AI" alongside men holding fish in their pics, and "crypto" lol)

It's all chronically-online nonsense that may well just be perception that's artificially amplified by "the algorithm".

Me, I have no fundamental issue with any of it -- LLMs, like anything else, aren't categorically good or bad. They can be used positively and negatively. Everything we use and consume has hidden downsides and unsavory circumstances.