I hate the endless grift that “AI” exists.

As far as technologies that are called “AI”, it’s just like any other technology. The usage determines the value. Under capitalism all technology is used first and foremost to violently enforce capitalism. This has already become apparent.

For example, while I enjoy generated art (apart from the environmental destruction), it’s not the same thing as murdering palestinian children. The conflation of the two is grifter pseudo-science in service of evil.

I do not hate AI, because it doesn’t exist. I’m not delusional.

I do resent the bullshit generators that the tech giants are promoting as AI to individual and institutional users, and the ways they have been trained without consent on regular folks’ status updates, as well as the works of authors, academics, programmers, poets, and artists.

I resent the amount of work, energy, environmental damage, and yes, promotional effort that has gone into creating an artificial desire for a product that a) nobody asked for, and b) still doesn’t do what it is claimed to do.

And I resent that both institutions and individuals are blindly embracing a technology that at every step from its creation to its implementations denigrate the human work — creative, scholarly, administrative and social — that it intends to supplant.

But Artificial Intelligence? No such thing. I’ll form an opinion if I ever see it.

AI could be fine, except that in a capitalist society it’s going to be used by corps & govt as a weapon against labor, a surveillance technology, and a way to plagiarize the hard work of artists.

I hate LLMs because their use leads to less human creativity by pushing artists out of creating art, and lowers the quality of the art available to everyone. Not to mention they were all created in a highly unethical manner.

The rest of the slop going on with it is just a sideshow in my opinion. Replacing the very things that make us human with something artificial and ‘cheap’ is atrocious and I struggle to understand why everyone is going along with it.

I hate it because LLMs are not AI; they’re statistical models that will never achieve true intelligence. It’s hallucinations all the way down, regardless of accuracy.

I hate all of this Generative AI trash.

AI has been a concept in one way or another for a long time. The idea of ai is fine, this current state of slop machines and chat bots being pushed can suck my ass.

If you’re talking about reading machine generated text then I’m to fucking old to eat a corporate propaganda. What’s difference between AI and TV ? You can’t turn off AI without turning off TV these days.
That’s sad.

If we take the forum title here, the “fuck” is directed at the people in charge of so-called “AI” companies. The technology has value. It’s just being forcefed down our throats in ways that remind us of block chain and whatever happened to block chain?!

Well I hate LLMs

I don’t hate AI, I hate the system that’s using AI for purely profit-driven, capitalism-founded purposes. I hate the marketers, the CEOs, the bought lawmakers, the people with only a shallow understanding of the implications of this whole system and its interactions who become a part of this system and defend it. You see the pattern here? We can take out AI from the equation and the problematic system remains. AI should’ve been either the beginning of the end for humanity in a terminator sort of way, or the beginning of a new era of enlightenment and technological advancements for humanity. Instead we got a fast-tracked late stage capitalism doubling down on dooming us all for text that we dont have to think about writing while burning entire ecosystems to achieve it.

I use AI on a near daily basis and find usefulness in it, it’s helped me solve a lot of issues and it’s a splendid rubber ducky for bouncing ideas, and I know people will disagree with me here but there are clear steps towards AGI here which cannot be ignored, we absolutely have systems in our brains which operate in a very similar fashion to LLMs, we just have more systems doing other shit too. Does anyone here actually think about every single word that comes out of their mouths? Has nobody ever experienced a moment where you clearly said something that you immediately have to backtrack on because you were lying for some inexplicable reason, or maybe you skipped too many words, slurred your speech or simply didn’t arrive anywhere with the words you were saying? Dismissing LLMs as advanced autocomplete absolutely ignores the fact that we’re doing exactly the same shit ourselves, with some more systems in place to guide our yapping.

I hate that a market hype bubble has been forced onto us. LLMs are being shoehorned into tasks that they fundamentally can not actually do, they’re just pattern recognition engines, they have no intelligence. Despite their lack of intelligence they are sucking up energy, municipal water, a massive amounts of compute so they can be forced onto us.

I don’t hate AI as much as I hate the nonexistent ethics surrounding LLM’s and generative AI tools right now (which is what a lot of people refer to as “AI” at present).

I have friends that openly admit they’d rather use AI to generate “art” and then call people who are upset by this luddites, whiny and butt-hurt that AI “does it better” and is more affordable. People use LLMs as a means to formulate opinions and use as their therapist, but when they encounter real life conversations that have ups and downs they don’t know what to do because they’re so used to the ultra-positive formulated responses from chatGPT. People use AI to generate work that isn’t their own. I’ve had someone already take my own, genuine written work, copy/paste it into claude, and then tell me they’re just “making it more professional for me”. In front of me, on a screen share. The output didn’t even make structural sense and had conflicting information from the LLM. It was a slap in the face and now I don’t want to work with startups because apparently a lot of them are doing this to contractors.

All of these are examples that many people experience with me. They’re all examples of the same thing: “AI” as we are calling it is causing disruptions to the human experience because there’s nothing to regulate it. Companies are literally pirating your human experience to feed it into LLMs and generative tools, turning around and advertising the results as some revolutionary thing that will be your best friend, doctor, educator, personal artist and more. Going further, another person mentioned this, but it’s even weaponized. That same technology is being used to manipulate you, surveil you, and separate you from others to keep you in compliance with your running government, whether it be for good or bad. Not to mention, the ecological impact this has (all so someone can ask Gemini to generate a thank you note). Give the users & the environment more protections and give actual tangible consequences to these companies, and maybe I’ll be more receptive to “AI”.

No. Copyright should be consistently enforced, pollution should be taxed, privacy should be protected, sites shouldn’t be DoSed, but other than that I think it’s kinda nifty on its own.

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I didn’t hate AI (or LLMs whatever) at first, but after becoming a teacher I REALLY FUCKING HATE AI.

99% of my students use AI to cheat on any work I give them. They’ll literally paste my assignment into ChatGPT and paste ChatGPT’s response back to me. Yes, I’ve had to change how I calculate grades.

The other super annoying part of AI is that I often have to un-teach the slop that comes from AI. Too often it’s wrong, I have to unteach the wrong parts, and try to get students to remember the right way. OR, if it’s not technically wrong, it’s often wildly over-complicated and convoluted, and again I have to fight the AI to get students to remember the simple, plain way.

The other thing I’ve heard from peers, is that parents are also using ChatGPT to try to get things from schools. For example, some student was caught cheating, got in trouble, but the parent was trying to use some lawyer-sounding ChatGPT argument to get the kid out of trouble. (They’ve met the parent before and the email seems wildly out of character.) Or in another instance, a parent sent another lawyer-sounding ChatGPT email to the school asking for unreasonable accomodations, demanding software that doesn’t even make sense for the university major.