Eine KI-Hasswelle ist da

Should’ve started earlier, if you ask me

Most other political divisions in the US are Left/Right. There are urban/rural, racial, and gender divisions between the camps, but importantly there is a mix of both common people and elites representing both sides.

AI, however, seems to be an issue which is uniquely split not Left/Right but Top/Bottom. The majority of elites on *both* Left and Right see AI as a tool that increases their own wealth, power, and influence, while the majority of common people (again, both on the Left and Right) are increasingly wary of its impact on their jobs, welfare, and outsized power of the elites over their lives.

So the dynamics are going to play out differently. The common people don’t have much elite champions representing them, and since neither Party’s political machine (heavily influenced by lobbyists and other elites) is interested to pursue an anti-AI stance, the issue will be buried at the political level no matter how much the masses are concerned about it (at least not until and unless it reaches a full-blown political crisis level). This will play out less like standard political conflict and more like a brewing non-partisan popular revolt.

CEOs are using AI as an excuse for mass layoffs, even when AI has nothing to do with it. The remaining employees are being given mandates to use LLMs even when it serves no visible benefit other than to increase adoption rates so executives can justify their spending.

And those same CEOs are predicting mass unemployment due to AI, with massive changes in quality of life and career trajectory for the rest.

There are also things like building massive datacenters, which impact locals, against local citizen and even government wishes.

Is it any wonder there is a backlash?

Maybe the worst part is there are a ton of very useful aspects of AI (especially garden-variety ML) getting grouped together with LLMs under the umbrella term „AI“ that cast the whole field in a bad light.

Is here? It’s been here, son.

AI has its uses and place. Stop shoving it into everything and it wouldn’t get a fraction of the hate it currently gets. 

To me hating technology / AI just puts the target off of the billionaires and actual humans screwing us

lol just wait for the AI heat wave

„Wave“ makes it sound like it’s temporary. We’ve seen your product and we think it’s both shit and in no way worth its costs, tech industry.

Im so tired of this shit being forced down our throats. The company I work for doesn’t even have to answer to shareholders and they are still trying to force it. We now have an “AI goal” per employee…

Glad to hear this growing, for real. Just to split some hairs, though…  I don’t exactly hate AI,  I hate the transparently evil push from the billionaire class to use AI to steal skills, knowledge and power from normal people. Definitely that *is what AI is for,* and sometimes even that’s what it is good at, but if it were only permitted in a democratized structure, more work completed per person has the potential to be a good thing all around. As designed, however, it ain’t „all around“. It’s centralizing all that capability into the hands of trillion dollar corporations who have colluded to steal the underlying information, with this new stealing technology. It’s napster for billionaires.

One formative  idea for a reform law is that you could require to have workers whom you pay to decide how much of the work would be done by an AI. Where there is a union, the current and former union members should own the AI…  It’s stolen intelligence as much as it is artificial intelligence. My off the cuff ideas need work, for sure. I just want us to seek out new structures that identify and eliminate the evil consolidation of powers ahead of eliminating the raw/hypothetical capabilities. 

I really am enjoying seeing these AI companies spend money on advertisements only to see a whole comment section shitting on them. Really warms the heart.

I work in AI, and I hate it. There’s very little to like about it. It’s just Tech Bros solving problems for Tech Bros while telling the rest of the World they „have“ to use it and „have“ to pay for it.

Weird way to say billionaire hate but I understand.

Its been here since the beginning

> Why it matters: The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment.

Haha, ironic from Ai generated article

I’ve applied to probably a thousand jobs as a product designer with 15 years of experience. It’s never, EVER been this bad.

Turns out people hate forced adoption of technology designed to replace us in a world where your life is tied to how much money you make. Who would have guessed? Jensen said himself that he sees just a handful of employees and millions of AI agents. So what do all these replaced workers do to survive in this capitalism attrition simulator?

We’ve hated it from the beginning

*Gif of Donald Glover saying „GOOD“*

AI seemed fun when it was mostly memes and information. Since then it has incorporated every facet of my daily life and only like 3 people own it.

Cause it sucks. We don’t want it.

I for one am looking forward to the next Luddite rebellion