I don't know man Tech CEOs keep talking about their latest shit will replace people's job jee makes me wonder why?
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
You know what I HATE?
Look at the FUCKING SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF THE ARTICLE!
It's written by FUCKING AI!
I think what's worse is the fact that it's destroyed our trust in one another, causing us to believe things to be AI even if they are not. I ran the article's text through several AI detection services, and while not entirely reliable, they all say it's 100% human written.
"Everything I don't like is AI"
im not pro-ai but I really doubt that there's nearly as much "negative sentiment" regarding it as these articles getting spammed makes it seem. it'd be great for the bubble to pop already but nearly all the people I know either dont care or actively use it. im starting to feel disconnected from reality on lemmy as it actively turns into Facebook
Yeah, they didn't really cite anything showing a deep hatred for AI like you see here on lemmy, alls they gave was:
As one Pew Research survey from 2025 found, about 60 percent of respondents said they’d like “more control” over how AI is used in their lives, while only 17 percent are “comfortable” with AI remaining in the hands of a few tech billionaires.
Which yeah, most people want more control over how they use anything, that doesn't mean they hate the thing. Same with anything "remaining in the hands of a few billionaires" you could say that about nearly any industry under capitalism, doesn't mean they hate that industry, it may mean they hate capitalism though...
The integration of AI into regular, deterministic software bothers me a lot. As a developer, I want my IDE to be consistent so I can feel comfortable that autocompletion and other functions do what I expect. But recently, and at an accelerating rate, I find the IDE to make inconsistent autocompletions - often suggesting a lot more code, which often contains errors and non-existant references.
I could use AI every now and then for work, but I wish it only helped when I'm explicit about it. Currently, it kills workflow and sucks out energy both from me and the grid.
Talking to AI is sort of like talking to a neurotypical person, in that they make up half of what they think I said.
If you talk to AI and feel like you're going insane...that's what talking to you without understanding your facial expressions is like. Half of what people say has nothing to do with what I said, and you expect me to just fill in the blanks with your eyebrow movements or something.
Edit: Non-autistic people communicate entirely through inference and body gestures. When I say one thing, non-autistic people think I'm secretly saying some other thing that they imagined. That's sort of how AI is, it will take a small comment and blow it our of proportion or infer meaning that isn't there. That's what talking to most of you is like.
It's the same with evangelists. They say society hates god, but what it really hates is assholes who won't leave them alone.
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The opinion of anyone confused as to why ‘AI’ is hated should be summarily ignored.
Boom? If it were a boom, everyone would be prospering by it. It is a money and energy sucking wealth generator for the already very rich and nothing else. It doesn't even do anything reliably after stealing the world's cache of information to "train" it.
It doesn't even generate wealth, either. It just denies money to labor and that's it.
AI
- Added zero actual value to humanity
- Can do any task about 70% correctly about 70% of the time
- Drove up electricity demands through the roof
- Gave humanity the option to make childporn from their armchair
- Is generating such hardware shortages that computer hardware prices have doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and more to come!
- Increased misinformation by factors of thousands, if not more
- Broke CAPTCHAs for good, thanks for that
- Caused wild random growth of super datacenters that pollute like crazy and take away all the groundwater everywhere
- Steals all data from everyone everywhere with impunity
- Highly confident in giving the wrong answer
- Literally made ma y people lose their mind into AI psychosis
- Do I still need to continue?
AI tech bro's look at that list and ask: why do people not like AI?
You could say the same about the Internet for nearly all those points.
You really couldn't.
I'll believe CEOs are actually confused or offended the day business articles start giving equal time to labor and capital voices
The lies don't work as manipulation when purchasers and other dumb execs actually use the tools and see what their uses and limitations actually are vs what they are sold to be able to do. So they switch to how could you or it's not good now but next quarter fomo.
"We are working on a technology that will accelerate climate change while hopefully making most of the population unemployed in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life, if even that! What? Why are you all booing?
But but don't you understand, AI will allow them to reduce spending, if you only look at wages paid to humans and ignore the material costs of all the infrastructure and propaganda about how great it is
“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang in a January interview about the “battle of [AI] narratives.”
Isn't admitting you are confused and hurt by why customers don't like a product tantamount to admitting complete incompetence as a CEO?
I hope they're fucking hurt.
Fuck the people who peddle this shit in such an evil way. They want to replace us and pocket the profits.
I don't think these people are capable of feeling pain.
No, this isn't an accident. It's a PR ploy, and done entirely on purpose. The idea is to push the people who aren't critical towards AI to their side. By being confused and not understanding why people are so mad at these innocent little men just doing their best to bring something good to humanity, they're humanising themselves. Most anyone can relate to fears of having their hard work rejected by others, and they're playing on that.
I wish people would stop platforming this nonsense.
They regard themselves thought leaders. They are confused why their thoughts aren't being followed en masse.
EDIT: just explaining their logic as I suspect it, not condoning anything here :)
They all think they are Steve Jobs, and while he certainly isn't anywhere close to the genius messiah they believe him to be and was also a giant asshole, he was also far more on the pulse of what people want and don't than any of these absolute fools.
Why would it be? None of the critics are his customers. He sells hardware to Altman, Nadella and the other Koolaid drinkers that run the slop infrastructure.
The handful of people that privately buy NVIDIAs incredibly overpriced GPUs for their private gaming PCs aren't the focus anymore.
He sells hardware to Altman, Nadella and the other Koolaid drinkers that run the slop infrastructure.
He gives money to Altman so Altman can use that money to pay for Nvidia purchases... totally sustainable and normal business model
NVIDIA is one of the biggest AI investors on earth. They own more of this than just about anyone. They are paying their customers to buy their shit.
When your job is to play golf and post your Philosophy 101-level "deep thoughts" on Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing that LLMs can do real work.
I bet AI would do a better job.
"We're only trying to make all of your jobs obsolete while paying politicians to not tax us, making all consumer electronics outrageously expensive or inaccessible, getting obscenely wealthy by stealing your works of art, making your power bill more expensive, consuming all of your water supply, and accelerating climate change. Why aren't you clapping?"
Jensen can suck my Huang for being such an idiotic shill of vaporware tech that is simultaneously undermining something like 30-40% of the fucking GDP at this point. Fuck you, dude. You’re actively accelerating us towards an economic depression that is going to fucking dwarf 2008.
Jensen can suck my Huang

If I was in charge of coming up with ironic punishments, I would lock him in a data center with the cooling turned off. Let's see if he or his chips give out first.
The meatbag would fail first; the hardware would probably limp along and thermal throttle for a good stretch of time before fully cooking itself and getting bricked.
That said, conducting the experiment would confirm these assertions, so it’s probably still worth doing.
Everyone understands the Tech CEOs bonuses depend on AI replacing human employees. Or at least the ones with rights.
Aww, did we hurt the poor CEOs fee fees again? 🥺
I always get psyched to read articles like this and too often they're just little stubs. I feel like the second this one gets going it just ends.
Yeah, I feel you.
It makes me crave analysis like Cory Doctorow often does when covering this stuff on his blog. Fuck performing some misplaced notion of "neutral reporting" — the matter at hand is far from neutral, so let's be honest and call these abominable turd crumpets out for what they are
They are confused about much they are very much not at all connected to the average person.
This product is going to take your job, bit to make it work we need to use all the electricity and water, making them more expensive. We also need to steal all the user data in the world. Why does nobody like it?
"I can't believe how ungrateful they are that we found a more efficient way to kill them!" Paraphrasing here.
They’ve definitely got a marketing problem at the very least. What is the value of AI to an individual that does not correlate to creating more value to their workplace? That needs to be the focus. While there are arguments for and against the value of AI in increasing productivity, at the end of the day, I don’t fundamentally care about my productivity level unless it creates some form of incentive for me. So I’m not being paid more but I MAY produce more. Yay??? What’s the sell here? Why as a standard human would I value this to the point that they value it? I see it negatively harming the things I like such as the internet, music, political discourse, books, and television. What’s the benefit that I personally see? Unless they can drill that value into the masses, they are going to have an image problem.
I don’t particularly hate the snake oil, I hate the salesmen.
I hate both.
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.
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.
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.