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It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness
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Can you name a single technology or human endeavour that doesn't have negative side effects or potential for abuse?
The rise of anti-AI sentiment isn't based on objective measurements of societal harms, it's a meme because it's new and popular and, like all memes, some people feed on the outrage-based reinforcement generated by social media interactions.
I'm not saying that there are no problems with AI. I'm saying that people are treating it as if it were a massive problem because their perception is warped by social media.
I believe there are significant downsides to AI because of my understanding, not because the internet has told me to. The flip side of this conversation is people who do not understand, or choose to downplay, the downsides and who inflate the benefits through ignorance or vested interest. Of course all change has to be balanced against both good and bad consequences but to me it reads as though you are discounting valid criticism of AI as groupthink, when just as much happens in the opposite direction.
You sure your understanding isn't even a little bit based on things the internet told you?
Like, did you get all your knowledge about AI from offline?
Because I highly doubt it. Especially since you are on Lemmy on a post about AI.
Sure, discourse I've read on social media has encouraged me to go and do further reading and educate myself. You got me?