Because we got the dystopian AI and not the utopian AI.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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"Everything" was supposed to mean chores, not art and all the other stuff that makes life worth living.
Also, there's this whole "having to earn a living" thing that we haven't gotten rid of yet.
Because AI doesn't do shit for you, not in reality.
The fantasy was a world in which all needs are met because of AI.
The reality is AI is massacring jobs and being put in charge of systems it is fundamentally unfit to work in. Its also poisoning our environment, skyrocketing energy costs and computer parts, while also being used for mass surveillance.
What is with all this bullshit pro-AI slop propaganda I've been seeing on Lemmy, lately? Been seeing lots of mfers invade these communities and spread bullshit.
What is with all this bullshit pro-AI slop propaganda I've been seeing on Lemmy, lately? Been seeing lots of mfers invade these communities and spread bullshit.
I don’t know about Lemmy specifically, but in my experience, unskilled people who love AI are extremely vocal about it, to the point where some would go as far as to denigrate actually skilled people.
My hypothesis is that AI exacerbates the Dunning Kruger effect.
What is with all this bullshit pro-AI slop propaganda I’ve been seeing on Lemmy, lately? Been seeing lots of mfers invade these communities and spread bullshit.
By the way, it's interesting that these aren't always bots, sometimes they're just brainwashed people. Although I am not sure, all this is complicated, it would be interesting to know in more detail what is going on in the minds of such people, because they sometimes resemble some kind of sectarians or drug addicts.
I mean, it was a fantasy.
In the fantasy, AI would be doing the stuff you DIDN'T want to do. Any time it freed up meant you'd get paid the same, just work less.
Obviously the second point was obviously not how it'd pan out... but in the fantasy it did.
When the rubber hits the road, the reality crushes the fantasy. A lot of the work it's doing is stuff people were passionate about doing. And obviously the tooling is being used to buttfuck everyone on the planet to enrich like 1000 people.
For a great many things and people, the fantasy is better than the reality. It's the same general concept of life lessons like "Don't meet your heros" and "You can never go home". I'm frankly envious of people who are confused by this.
My hope was that we'd have UBI before AI/immersive VR got too good, because otherwise we'd get the dystopia. When I said hope, I didn't mean i expected it; I was just hoping against the terrifyingly more likely outcome.
I'll only be happy when they make an AI powered robot that can do the dishes and laundry for me
The best solution is to create such a robot with AI yourself and configure it as needed.
You're right, making a robot that's more advanced than anything currently available, sounds like a nice and simple weekend project 🙈
I can't really get behind a "do all robot" that wanders my house fully autonomously.
What I would prefer is single purpose robots, mounted or bolted in place, designed to do one thing well.
For example, robot arms that put laundry into the laundry machine, or robot arms that do the cooking in the kitchen. Something similar to how Tesla had that autonomous plug in "snake" charger once you parked in your garage.
Having a fully autonomous robot walking around the house is somewhat unnerving to my TBH. Even so if it were fully locally controlled I might still have hesitations. Think the short TV series Cassandra (2025)
I’ve seen a LOT of dystopian sci-fi with ai robots and not a lot of utopian sci-fi (even a struggling utopia) sort of at all, so yeah, hard agree on the single-purpose non-ai non-IoT robots. We already have so many of them, they just aren’t able to load themselves yet, though many can turn themselves on when programmed.
Also just massively easier to make, fewer things to go wrong. Locomotion, for one. If it never really has to move, or never off track, that massively simplifies the design and maintenance. Now it just needs proximity sensors instead of whole-area mapping technology.
What’s IoT?
IoT is internet of things, a semi-derisive term (in my experience, mostly used by tech people) for internet-connected devices that really don’t need to be connected to the internet at all, like toothbrushes, knives, washers, etc.
I think its referring to the fact that you, the user, do not access the internet through it, it accesses the internet semi-autonomously to do whatever it does, like a bot. Thus an internet made of things, not people.
Oh, good looking out. I actually recognize the term I just don’t believe I’ve ever seen it in shorthand like that honestly
Internet of Things
Sam Altman: and I think we can pay people in compute power. Like they'll get tokens that they can then use on the intelligence.
Thats why tho
I mean that american billionaire says that doesn't mean the tech behind it is bad.
AI isn't closed, there is a huge open source community
That’s true! There are plenty of other reasons why the technology is bad.
People don’t yet understand this very simple fact
I run my own models, on my own hardware. There’s nothing tech-bro about it
People dont care. When the man being thrown billions and asking for trillions is saying he wants to bring back company scrip, thats gonna piss people off. And it should.
And Flock is building a surveillance state by using cameras, do people get pissed of at concept of cameras? No so why is AI special?
Yes people should get pissed off, at the billionaires, at the government, but why at the tech itself?
Because of all the other stuff connected to "AI" that pisses people off. Deepfakes, slop, interview algorithms, threats to livelihood, big data mass surveillance, autonomous weapons used for human rights violations, ...
You can try to convince people not to hate the technology itself, but you'd be putting the cart before the horse. We need to deal with the cause of the problem first.
Nobody said cameras were going to take all your jobs and then acted upon it. Seems not comparable.
Ah the luddite argument.
I'm quite happy AI is taking my job, now all I have to do is supervise a bunch of AI agents who do the work for me while I can do things I actually enjoy doing.
And my boss likes it too because things that used to take an day now take at max an hour.
Yeah except most people get fucking fired and not a nice relaxing day. I dont think defending the arts is a Luddite argument. Yes, use it on your boring ass spreadsheets. Let's not replace actors with AI. Theres a place for humans in existence.
The problem is that, to most people, the idea of AI doing their job seems like a threat to their livelihoods given the current system. And it's a reasonable concern to have.
Unfortunately, big tech soured the entire field. Your fight is with them, not with regular people having imperfect yet understandable human reactions to that.
Oh that’s cute - THIER fight is with techbros. I’m just having an awesome time playing with new technology
Everyone gets so upset these days
This statement remind me of cryptocurrency
They're basically the same "adapt or be left behind" hype
I think the problem is that people are just dreamy jerks who ignore reality, because it's more pleasant and easier.
Although I am no better, I confess that I also decided to believe in lies, and now I have to pay for my naivety and stupidity.
Idiots listening to CEOs telling them the great things AI can do, like buying AI stock will make you money and AI will be your chat bestie never telling you anything you don’t want to hear. But the leopards are waiting to eat their faces.
Subscriptions for AI access, AI inserted into everything, wrong answers, humans being laid off, water resources being consumed rapidly, higher energy prices… and people will be unhappy, forced to pay their AI access fee to ask AI why things suck. And AI will lie.
Subscriptions for AI access, AI inserted into everything, wrong answers, humans being laid off, water resources being consumed rapidly, higher energy prices… and people will be unhappy, forced to pay their AI access fee to ask AI why things suck. And AI will lie.
This is the funniest thing.
The AI people imagined was a lot more competent than LLMs ...