So, why are there so many posts asking ‘Can I do this with AI, can I do that with AI’ popping up on here recently? I thought most of the Fediverse would’ve been anti-AI based on its general demographics.
Even if most of the fediverse is against it, doesn’t mean the minority who is interested can’t make enough posts to be visible. The majority of the Fediverse is also not rightwing, but conservative communities keep cropping up, too.
Wouldn’t the simplest explanation be that your assumption was wrong?
And their other assumption is wrong too - just because i don’t like the existence of ai doesn’t mean I’m not gonna use it.
If I had a button to make ai go away forever then i would hit that button, but unfortunately that’s not possible. Pandora’s box has been opened and ai isn’t ever going to disappear, so might as well use it to get its upsides since we’re forced to deal with its downsides anyway. Not using ai won’t cause ai to go away
Just because AI is bad in majority of situations, doesn’t mean it’s bad in all situations.
The way it’s being pushed into everyone’s lives is bad.
True, that negates all circumstances where AI is an effective tool.
Except environmentally
I have found it somewhat competent at bash scripting
I barely see a single post like this.
Maybe Lemmy.org is federated with some different folks, but where are you seeing them? From here, it even seems super rare even in places you might expect, like self-hosted or the dbz0 tech circles.
Here’s two, one I scrolled across and one that came up in a search.
https://lemmy.org/post/1996107 https://lemmy.org/post/1929831
To be blunt, two doesn’t seem like a lot to me.
And one of those is on the LocalLLaMA community, which is for people running LLMs locally, so it’s a pretty safe bet that they aren’t going to have any fundamental ideological problems with LLMs. If you go to !localllama@sh.itjust.works, !imageai@sh.itjust.works, or similar, it’d be very surprising if you found people who had an issue with generative AI.
That one kind of reminds me of when I first showed up here and was using kbin, which puts random posts in the sidebar to encourage discoverability. Both myself and another new kbin user wound up in some thread on a pawb.social community. The other guy — who probably didn’t understand the structure of the Threadiverse or where he was commenting — was complaining about “all these furries” in the thread.
+1 to tal, that’s not a lot.
However I do see a lot of the first post ‘type’ on Reddit. There a lot of that spam in /r/localllama.
But it’s not AI specific, as I see a lot of that in technical forums as well: just some drive-by poster briefly asking for help, with no details, and never bothering to reply in the comments.
We are not to be spared the buzz marketing.
I’ve been middle of the road in AI for years. I think it’s fascinating. I love it as a toy. But LLMs have a lot if limitations and they can’t be overcome through more compute or better training—mitigated but not overcome.
But man I’ve seen AI do some shit lately. Claude 4.5, Cline and an imagination can get shit done. Not “sell this to customers” shit but definitely “I know what I’m doing but I have an afternoon, not weeks — I’ve got you, bro” shit.
Definitely, “I’ve looked through this code and I want you to analyze it and tell me what you find so I can compare notes in case I’ve missed something.”
Last night I had it tell me “I’m a little confused about this point. I thought I understood it, but maybe not. Can you go over it again?” What the actual fuck? Anthropic has taken this shit way further than I thought possible.
So then I explained it and it builds a whole thing. It needed tweaking. Whole thing was like $10 in API costs. But it saved me so much time and my position pays enough that saving me 10 hours of time makes that a steal.
The AI didn’t do it in its own, for sure, but it saved me way more time than I thought it could. You’re still fucked if you don’t know how to do the thing, but I’m impressed.
Baseline for what hobbyists are going to be able to accomplish is going way up in the future.
They don’t know what automation is and think its ai.
I’ve seen quite a few ai products that are just if/then statements ducktaped together that say they have “ai”.
Can I ask ai this question to get an answer?
There’s a loud minority of anti-AI people. Most people don’t reflexively hate it, though.
Gonna call bullshit on this one, bud.
I’m going to call bullshit on your bullshit unless you’ve got some data to back it up. Why do you think most people “reflexively hate it”?
I reckon I have the same amount of data against AI as anyone has for it.
By which do you mean “nothing but vibes?” I’m not trying to support a particular position here, I’m just challenging yours. If you’ve got nothing to back it up then you’re just throwing your own personal opinion into the ring and that’s not really worth much.
Fair enough.
Nah, most people hate AI for one (or more) of a few reasons:
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Billionaires own it, if it takes off it exacerbates wealth inequality.
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It’s burning our planet down.
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The data centers are using entire communities water.
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The AI is ripping off human artists.
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People are getting obsessed with it, and the more they use it the less capable they are without it.
I have no idea where you’re spending time that you think most people here like AI…
Those are reasons you hate AI, perhaps. But on what basis do you say “most people” hate it? Have you seen a survey, or are you simply assuming that most people agree with you?
Social media is extremely “bubbly”, and I’ve found the Fediverse to be bubblier than most in my personal experience. I suspect it’s because the individual communities tend to be so much smaller in population than corresponding Reddit ones, it’s easier for those loud voices to shout out and dominate conversations.
I have no idea where you’re spending time that you think most people here like AI…
He didn’t say “here”. The truth is, most people aren’t against AI. Fediverse users are not an accurate representation of the public at large. Get out more.
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It’s the case with much of popular views one sees on social media, especially the extreme one. I don’t meet people in real life holding the views I see represented daily on Lemmy. For example I don’t know a single person whose strongly against AI.
