I don’t hate AI itself, but the amount of AI slop ruining the internet gives me a negative feeling about it whenever I see it. I used to enjoy fucking around with the early pre-2021 GANs, diffusion models and GPT3 playground before ChatGPT was around and actually liked the crazy dreamlike nonsense they made, but now it all feels like dead soulless crap getting used to replace humans. Probably going to get super downvoted for admitting to ever liking AI image gens lmao
Machine learning software in general: great. A really useful technology for getting a generally good answer where programming a perfect answer isn’t possible.
Generative software like LLMs or image generation: I think they potentially have positive uses, and could end up being a positive thing overall.
The main problem is the current companies. They’re putting this software where it shouldn’t be, dragging in huge amounts of power and water for their data centers, and encouraging people to use their product to spread disinformation and replace their brains in general, all in the name of getting money from investors.
As often happens, the problem isn’t a specific technology. The problem is capitalism.