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Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much (futurism.com)
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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 17 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t particularly hate the snake oil, I hate the salesmen.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 28 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I hate both.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

I’ll paraphrase something I saw a few weeks ago and now cannot find, sums up my feelings pretty well.

The people I love hate AI, and the people I hate love AI. But the things that intrigued me about technology in the first place also intrigues me about this technology.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 18 hours ago

But if we got rid of the salesman, just imagine how much snake oil we could drink! We could open ethical snake butchering farms, democratize where we dump the poisonous runoff, and send some of it to Africa - they're so unsnakeoiled over there.

And surely only the current crop of salesmen are the bad guys, right? There couldn't possibly be a new villain waiting to pick up where Elon and Jensen left off.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I mean. There would be no salesman if the snake oil didn’t exist.

Also snake oil refers to a fake product. Why would you “not hate” the fake product? At its foundation the sole purpose of the existence of snake oil is to be disingenuous and scam customers.

Hate the game not the player.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

I think you’re taking my comment a bit too literally. My big problem with AI is who is pushing it and how much they’re pushing it.

[–] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I disagree. If not snake oil it would be something else. There are certain personality traits salesman seem to all have. I would describe it as a comfort with being disingenuous. Say or do anything to get money. Its often portrayed as "hustle culture" and praised. We should be condemning those traits not praising them.