Unpopular Opinion

Well let's see, we have a new technology that:

• Is made possible only through massive amounts of plagiarism and IP law violation, the same IP law that corporations weaponized against regular people for decades but are okay with breaking it now because they think they will benefit from this breaking of IP law.
• Takes this massive body of stolen works and regurgitates average output from it.
• Allows idiots to generate massive amounts of outputs that everyone else has to sift through and figure out what to do with, overwhelming anyone unfortunate enough to be subjected to it and creating a maintenance nightmare.
• Makes it easier than ever to generate fake videos, voice clips, and scams.
• Is being used as an excuse by scumbag CEOs to lay people off and force the remaining employees to take on extra work.
• Is central to a new push for heavy global surveillance by the epstein class because of its ability to search through massive amounts of data, even if the results can often be incorrect.

Logically, there are a lot more downsides than upsides to this technology. Tools can bleat "it's just a tool" all day long, but then so are torture devices.

I don't think people are ready for the job losses that are coming due to AI. It's going to be everyone, in every industry

To give an example about how this harms the artists, take a look at David Revoy comics. He get accused of being AI artist Every time one of his comics get posted on social media(Reddit and other social websites) or chat spaces(despite being one of the rare artists who create open-source comics)

Hold up. This is super illogical. Dave Revoys art was scrapped for training datasets, just like every other artist who had their work used without consent to produce cheap imitations of their work. You're cherry picking pretty hard to focus on his harm while ignoring the harm caused to the entire field of those making a living from producing media. Artistic labor was stolen all to make a product which can reproduce then in mass.

We already called them starving artists. Who pays for a commission now when you can instead pay pennies to Google for a similar product. The harm of being falsely accused of using AI is dwarfed by the artists who had their livelihood decimated.

pushing your government to regulate them is more productive

Existing companies with a budget to spare love regulation. It protects them from a potential future competitors.

Generative AI produces artificial 'art' pretty much by definition. It's a capitalist weapon that's the end-goal of the algorithmic fuckery that companies like spotify, netflix etc promote, consistently producing increasingly inane beige crap so they can stop offering you a choice and start telling you what they want you to consume without the annoyance of having to use actual artists for actual art. Nothing truly original, dangerous or challenging can be produced via gen ai and all we'll end up with is art that's the equivalent of listening to an Imagine Dragons elevator music tribute band on endless repeat whilst data centre's destroy what's left of the natural world.

Fuck your opinion OP. Good job, upvoted.

This posts clanks.

In all seriousness, I wouldn’t hate AI as much if it wasn’t forced down my throat literally everywhere all the fucking time.

Quit down voting him because you don't agree with his opinion, THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF THIS COMMUNITY.

On an unrelated note, I completely disagree with your clanker-ass post OP, which means it's a great post. Excellent work, never speak to me again.

Creating AI free spaces without a need does not benefit anyone.

Why exactly do we have to bear all the low effort slop posts in the selfhosted community? There's so much spam coming in. I've tried, just for shit and giggles, to install a few projects. And they all don't work.

And then all our instances are being hammered with crawlers. And we have Anubis and worse, Cloudflare popping up everywhere, wasting a bit of my battery... Making the Fediverse dependent on a big, nasty, central company.

And our mods and admins are having a bad time, too. They need to delete all the fresh accounts promoting some nonfunctional bullshit. Or we'd be an advertising platform in no time. Reportedly in some places of the Fediverse, we already got most newly created accounts be advertising bots.

So... This seriously a good thing? Or are we maybe at the receiving end of something which just isn't so nice for us?

But with the memes community: We have so many of those... I'm sure you'd be able to find one which allows AI images.

It's hard to push your government to regulate when the quickest way to a candidate's ear is money. The elective process has been subverted by the very big businesses the government should be regulating here. Every few months we get to see some new Congressional hearing with someone in Tech spouting lies in front of the policymakers whose pockets they line.

For me, the part of my views on the 'AI boom' that makes me seem irrational is the ethically dubious development of certain strains,coupled with that I absolutely lack the mental capacity to sort through all the noise and determine what parts are ok and what parts or not. Due to the marketing push, everything AI has melded into one giant glob of stuff that I am required, by the weakness of my flesh, to take or leave as whole.

A more nuanced approach is better if the resources are available to pursue it. I do not think it is fair to expect such an approach from any given individual.

I agree. Every time I hear someone complain about AI, I have this vision of people with horses complaining about cars.

Hey, fuck yo-

Oh, it's in /c/unpopularopinion. sigh. upvote.

One factor is "AI" has become synonymous with OpenAI UIs or maybe Gemini apps, and similar corporate junk, to the general public.

...Along with their terrible repercussions. Altman is, literally, a sociopath.

You’re preaching to the choir here. I’ve been playing with LLMs since GPT-3 in 2020, GANs before that, as an intense hobby and for work, and the anti AI “hysteria” is depressing to me.

But if OpenAI all the average person has exposure to, I can’t really blame people for it. It does smell like shit. It does seem like everything it touches is the devil! It’s everywhere. Why wouldn’t they ban it from communities, then?

Same if David Revoy posts on Twitter. Social media is a toxic engagement farm, so of course it’s going to boost the anti AI accusations; if he doesn’t like it, unfortunately he shouldn’t post there.

And it’s not reasonable for people to learn a bunch of technical textbook stuff of how they work and what kind of resources they consume or what it was actually designed to do before all these grifters blew it up. Laymen were never supposed to in the first place.

EDIT:

I will say:

• …I expect better from the Fediverse. TBH, this place has a huge “bandwagoning” and extremism problem in general, exacerbated by people reposting stuff from corporate social media. Part of it is structural too, as Lemmy’s structure is killing small communities. Anti AI is just the latest manifestation.

• My big fear is that Big Tech is going to weaponize the AI Haters into banning local ML. This would be akin to the anti-social-media supporters banning the Fediverse and Reddit because “only Facebook and X are safe.”

That’s where the red line should be, IMO: don’t shoot down open source machine learning if you want any digital freedom in the future.

Thinking about the creation process of any media piece rather than the quality of it seems also stupid.

the way any piece of media is created is directly responsible for its quality, it's impossible to consider one without considering the other. people make things good by thinking about them, spending time on them, focusing on the details. ai cannot make art because the part where making art happens is exactly the part that ai eliminates

But haven't you heard?! AI consumes an ocean of water every time it's used! And that water just disappears forever, never to return. Also, it uses all of the electricity, and it's impossible to use renewable energy sources for it. Also, it steals art from the world, just gone, stolen and irretrievable. And, and when it makes anything it's an exact copy of the art it stole, but also somehow it's slop that is made out of hallucinations. And it will make you so lazy you forget how to breathe! You'll suffocate because you're so used to relying on the AI that you won't know how to do anything for yourself! And, and, and data centers are absolutely one hundred percent required for anything AI related! It's impossible to run models locally, or even train them without a data center.

Turn away from the "sloppers" and join us, the "Luddites." Only we, the angry mob, can decide what technology is worth pursuing and we've decided that AI is evil.

No one here has ever used AI and we never will.