There’s a lot of anti-AI propaganda coming from the same AI corporations and governments trying to push for regulations that will grant them a monopoly on this tech and limit the development and usage for people. Many brought up multiple reasons why they dislike AI, the same arguments could be used for other technologies and services but personally i’ve never seen anyone here on lemmy picking a fight against military data centers or videogames industry for causing pollution.

The most upvoted comments hint at big techs being a problem but seem to fail to acknowledge that issues caused by “AI” are mostly caused by the corporations and evil characters behind these.

You do realize that the vast majority of people hate LLMs right? They are power, water resource hungry worthless things that have yet to prove any worth to the human race.

Nuclear power can make energy.

Nuclear power can eradicate the planet and leave areas uninhabitable for untold years, and those it doesn’t vaporize are altered for the rest of their lives. And sometimes they aren’t aware until years after.

AI has good uses when applied carefully, such as in medical research.

AI is also being used as a reason to replace workers, it consumes massive amounts of energy, it creates sound and infrasound destroying environments around it, it consumes massive quantities of drinking water from surrounding areas, and is ultimately spurring on a society of wealthy ruling class who view humans as cattle, out in the open, and no one is stopping them.

Is it any wonder why people hate these things? But yes, a tool is a tool. It’s the people using it that hate should be properly directed towards. Unfortunately, those same ruling class epstein elites dismantled education over decades, so it’s harder for people in this day and age to think dialectically. It’s easier to think in black and white, in extremes, just like media would have you believe, just as the culture wars have taught us for decades.

Its a massive theft machine destroying the earth in an attempt to eliminate labor value with no benefit to anyone in the long run other than the ultra rich. AI isn’t for you, its for rich people to get richer so they dont have to pay humans to do work.

Fuck AI. LLMs can be interesting but the atmosphere that is “AI” is a net bad on society.

This isnt even mentioning how fucking boring and generic its output is.

Because it’s trendy and it’s a new thing people can feel outraged about together.

I like computers and now can’t easily afford to do the projects I’m interested in. I get very little value from AI and it destroyed my hobby. It also is a massive bubble that will hurt the majority of the world once it pops. It’s dumb.

Assuming you’re talking about generative AI and most (or all?) chatbots - the only people who ‘like’ it are the rich, the elderly, the tech illiterate, and the right-wing. None of these has any presence on Lemmy. Or on reddit, for that matter. AI sentiment is pretty much the same across the two platforms, from what I’ve seen.

The only places where I’ve seen any kind of unironic pro-AI content is Facebook and LinkedIn. So basically platforms filled with the aforementioned groups.

Why are there so many people on Lemmy asking this same question over and over again. This has got to get over ten now in the last week.

I don’t hate AI, I hate how much it’s shoved down my throat every day. If it was used in appropriate use cases and not injected into everything because profits then I wouldn’t care so much.

I don’t even really care about AI art so much as we’re just accelerating full retard into literal extinction event AGI at top speed with pretty much no regard for safety.

This is ending the human race now, in realtime and it’s pretty much too late to stop.

Under capitalism, LLMs are used purely for the benefits of the capitalist class, spying on all of the working classes and enabling immense repressions. It isn’t a tool without any and all merit, but under capitalism it will always be used against our best interests.

Game communities I used to love browsing have become inundated with low-effort, vibe-coded crapware. It’s now 20 times harder to find anything good. Hardware is 20 times more expensive. My insurance company is using AI to deny me medical help. A skill I spent 25 years developing suddenly is full of morons who think they know as much as I do because they can have Claude vomit out something resembling software.

There is A LOT to hate.

There’s a variety of reasons, but the biggest is that Lemmy as a whole is FAR more class-conscious than the average populace, or even that average internet user, and generative AI has been developed by the wealthy and powerful, as a tool to oppress everyone else.

It’s a hammer being sold as a replacement for builders. I don’t hate AI, rather than all of stuff that’s called “AI” these days is being sold as something more than it is.

Just listen to Jensen, the token salesman, of Nvidias fame.

If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed

This is what I hate. The mad greed of these companies; the blatant disregard of everyone that these CEOs are displaying; the blind rush without a thought about consequences. “AI” is just the latest fad that got ruined by good old capitalism.

I’m curious why this question gets asked on lemme so often.