Comment by wvenable
3 days ago
As a software developer and human being, I know people often say they prefer one thing while actually preferring something else. That's human nature.
People have strong feelings about AI in general and that can definitely cloud what they will say about it. Everybody hates AI but, like CGI in movies, they only likely hate the AI or CGI that they notice.
Believing that, say, the use of AI will primarily enrich billionaires that are already doing societal harm is not clouding one's view of AI. It is one's view of AI.
To say otherwise is to say that worrying about lung cancer is clouding one's view of smoking.
> they only likely hate the AI or CGI that they notice.
No, this is simply not true at all. I dislike use of AI even more when I don't notice it. My goal getting on the Internet is to connect with other actual people and their creativity. I want actual people to be more connected to each other, and AI makes that worse, especially when it's good enough that people don't even realize their are being intermediated by corporations pumping out simulated humanity.
> Believing that, say, the use of AI will primarily enrich billionaires that are already doing societal harm is not clouding one's view of AI. It is one's view of AI.
That's fine. Nobody is forcing you to use AI. I dislike it when people force their ideas onto others.
> My goal getting on the Internet is to connect with other actual people and their creativity.
It's too bad your goal doesn't include interacting with people who don't speak your language and use AI to translate for them. Or people who struggle with writing in general. I don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be.
> Nobody is forcing you to use AI. I dislike it when people force their ideas onto others.
I'm still being forced to live in a world filled with people who do use it and whose behavior affects me.
We had the President of the United States posting AI-manipulated propaganda on social media. Millions of voters saw that, regardless of whether or not I happen to personally use ChatGPT.
It doesn't matter if I light up a cigarette myself if I have to spend all day in a crowded bar where everyone else is smoking.
> I don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be.
I'm not saying it's black and white. All I'm saying is that your description of someone's strong feelings about AI as "clouding" their stance is incorrect. You can be clear-headed about feeling something is a large net negative for the world.
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