AI has already and is actively making a substantial chunk of things worse.
OpenAI has made war crimes legal
Youtube is a sea of slop
Book industry is drowning
FOSS is being openly robbed while also drowning under slop
Anti-AI paranoia is really ratcheting up and its also being exploited by AI. USAA the military savings bank has a flood of AI bots accusing humans of being bots to stifle criticism of the bank enshitifying itself. Meanwhile pre-AI video reposts have people screaming “That’s AI slop!” In other places, too thorough of a text post is probably AI but it also might just be some poor neurodivergent person who is an actual expert on the subject and is excited to share.
Then there is all the layoffs and firings.
Health insurance scams are using AI to target those who are less lightly to appeal.
Stuff like the people shut out of part of the job market because an AI decided they had been rejected from too many prior applications.
Oh and the computer electronics parts market is fucked. I have a few spare DDR5 memory sticks that would now pay for a third of what my current computer cost me! Never mind the NVME spares I have on the shelf.
Actually most of the consumer electronics market is fucked. Didn’t they postpone the next play station while Valve is trying to figure out if people will be cool donating a kidney or part of their liver for the VR goggles and the steam console box.
Only saving grace for me is my spelling and grammar skills seriously atrophied after using grammarly for a few years so most people look at my writing and never think “This sounds like AI!”
I bet that 16% have already let AI talk them into some really awful financial decisions
I hate how tech bros make people hate all sorts of artificial intelligence by naming their fucking large language models AI. Without machine learning, I would have had to type this text all by myself. But look at me, speaking into a microphone. On the toilet! 😭
Fuck tech bros. Love tech. If it’s the good kind of tech. The one that doesn’t drink all our water and doesn’t consume all our electricity. And fucking graphics cards!
It’s probably an llm doing the speech to text on your phone.
They’re actually kickass for low stakes translation of natural language.
It’s fucking stupid to use them to generate computer code listings based on pretending you’re talking to a person.
Might be, but then it’s still open source and local on my hardware.
They were originally developed as translation software, after all.
The way we live is completely wrong for a human being. Wasting our lives for numbers in a computer, just enough to pay bills and waste another month.
16%? They’re called grifters and robber barons.
And me!
The environmental issues with AI are solvable (e.g. , solar powered, replace water with air or keep recycling the same water, etc).
The issue with taking jobs is not an issue because the government can create state-owned businesses that return a revenue (creating a net profit to tax-payers) to create jobs until the unemployment rate is stable. If it replaces all jobs, then we can put everyone on universal basic income and distribute everything to anyone who needs it (socialist utopia).
Little that happens in this country has a positive impact on society. The only positive things that have happened during my lifetime were the ADA in 1990 and legalized gay marriage between 2003 and 2015.
The global results from the dissolution of USAID suggests that had a major positive impact.
The ACA was pretty good. Not nearly good enough, but I really like not being on the hook for preexisting conditions
the only problem is now they just deny you after taking your money instead of before
The 16 percent represents the billionaires that stand to lose their ass if the bubble bursts
The US wouldnt be an oligarchy if 16% were billionaires.
That 16% has investments in it.
It doesn’t matter what Americans think about anything. In fact, they DON’T THINK. Imagine someone thinking and deciding that any idiot can have a gun. Or someone thinking and deciding that the width of a man’s thumb at the base of the nail or the length of three dry, round barley grains placed side by side is a basic unit of measurement? That’s not thinking, that’s idiocy.
Yeah and everyone knows that every American must agree for a law to be valid, which is how we know that this describes every American
16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact
Going to need this group cross-referenced with the percentage of Americans who enjoy CSAM.
CSAM numbers (intentional viewers, not incidental stumbling upon it) are probably closer to 1/3-1/2 of that.
16% is the same amount that approved of Trumps stupid birthday bash, though. And the same percentage that say the economy is doing great currently. And the same as people who have invested in bitcoin. I’d expect a high rate of overlap in those 16%s.
I love AI. It DOes all kinds of things NOT just make pictures. TRUST me I us ai every day. THE example I like to share is how it let’s me research different types of MACHINES.
AI can have a positive impact on society, but not in it’s current form. We need things that can help us make sense of large data sets, we also could use things that help automate really tedious, menial tasks. We do not need or want industrial grade slop generators.
Yeah!? So, shut up and stop ramming it down our throats. We know where to find it, if we want to use it.
It’s not a car. It’s a crutch. It’s not a computer application. It’s a crutch. It removes skills because people stop flexing their skills.
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There’s no link in the article to the Pew Research study they’re supposedly citing and they write it out as if all Americans participated. Why do people cite polls as if they’re accurate? I’ve never participated in one and with all the propaganda Americans are fed I don’t see how any of them are believable.
Because polls exist to try and get a representative sample, and they bank their whole reputation on it.
Just because you’ve never been polled doesn’t mean they don’t exist or work.
The first part of what you said I understand. The second part is just an example of one perspective to take on the legitimacy of polls. Besides that I still wouldn’t ever trust one with all the propaganda going around and hope that others don’t either.
