Comment by ronnier
1 day ago
Generally the comments are heavily anti AI to the point where it almost seems like it’s a foreign adversary trying to mold the public opinion to be anti ai to slow the progress of AI advancement in the USA
1 day ago
Generally the comments are heavily anti AI to the point where it almost seems like it’s a foreign adversary trying to mold the public opinion to be anti ai to slow the progress of AI advancement in the USA
I think this is some sort of built-in bias we all have. I'm pretty bearish on AI, and to me I get the impression that generally most comments are heavily pro-AI, or pro-OpenAI/Anthropic. I think we're just biased to see and remember what we disagree with.
Especially since these anti-AI comments completely disappear in posts about Chinese AI progress.
This is total bollocks. The skeptics are all present and just as forceful in any AI thread.
Give a single post as an example where the anti AI comments are prevalent?
Just subjectively making it up, but my feeling is that people are not so much against AI in principle as they are against the american-capitalist approach to it: steamroll its rollout everywhere, risk the entire economy (both jobs and stock market), for dubious net benefits to anyone but the wealthy.
The US earned themselves very little goodwill from the world (and many of their own citizen), to the point that people even in the West are happy seeing China challenging the US on the AI front. Whether China is wielding AI for better or worse outcomes than the US is up for hindsight.
Possibly the only more totalizing steamrolling approach to development than the American-capitalist is the socialist-big-push. This complaint is nonsense.
I thought the opposite. I've sensed the gravitational pull from 2 trillion-dollar companies that are hoping to IPO in the near future
That is the most bizarre leap given that the best models bang-for-buck right now are Chinese.
The real issue here is the death of critical thinking.
I'm not anti-AI; I'm anti-centralization of power. If the Chinese models were closed source and developed with the same strategy as the US labs then I'd be rooting against them, too.