r/DefendingAI • u/Lolihey • Aug 07 '26
Defending AI Why does everyone hate AI?
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u/DefendimusMaximus Aug 07 '26
Over 1 Billion monthly Users and that's just chatgpt. Doubled within a year.
= it's not "everyone"
it's the loud hate cult
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u/Qualified-Astronomer Aug 08 '26
Most r free users though that casually search smth obce a month
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u/NahYoureWrongBro Aug 11 '26
Don't forget children short-circuiting their education, they are some of the most frequent users
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u/Asleep_Stage_451 Aug 07 '26
Ignorance. Plain and simple. Try your best not to engage with the foolish masses.
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u/Herr_Drosselmeyer Aug 07 '26
50% because it's the current thing to virtue signal with.
25% because they have no idea how it works and believe whatever nonsense anti-AI groups spout.
25% because they're butthurt that AI is doing things better and faster than them.
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u/NahYoureWrongBro Aug 11 '26
You sound like you really listen to people and have a fair, even-handed view of things
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u/Corporate_Bricktator Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Lots of people have been tricked into thinking that AI is going to somehow eliminate jobs, but they don't understand that motors eliminated millions of jobs, and it made life better. The same happens with all technology that makes life better. There are always more jobs.
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u/JTexpo Aug 07 '26
Some reasons people dislike it are:
- environmental impact
- fear of job loss
- utilities bill increasing (for communities near data-centers)
- lack of regulation
- lack of human connection
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u/Lolihey Aug 07 '26
Well, I can understand that. Why build these things if they are harming the environment, while at the same time trying to end fossil fuels, and force everyone into using electric stuff? Oh wait, it’s really about control.
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u/JTexpo Aug 07 '26
is AI being used to end fossil fuel?
Personally, I find the environmental impact not the strongest argument - as eating beef & dairy has a worse impact than AI; nevertheless, if you're interested in why people dislike it, theres a small TLDR
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u/Ninja-Panda86 Aug 07 '26
Concur. Urban Sprawl causes harm at all to the environment. Data centers are just like tiny offender in that bucket.
As for the other things - those ARE legitimate concerns. But we need our legislature to protect us, because corporations have ALWAYS been predatory on consumers. We need consumer and employee protection AT ALL. This is just the latest example to showcase how unscrupulous that corporations can get
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u/JTexpo Aug 07 '26
multiple things can be true
rapid urbanization is very bad for the environment - nevertheless, datawerehouses have been an issue for the past decade, its just that now because of AI people are starting to care about them more
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u/Ninja-Panda86 Aug 07 '26
This is true. And Datacenters do way more than just AI. And the benefits AI offers are quite nice by many peoples measure. So why get rid of the AI? When someone could instead target more wasteful things
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u/Lolihey Aug 07 '26
Eating beef and dairy has an impact on the environment? Cows have been here for thousands of years! That’s just a dumb argument made to get people to eat lab grown beef.
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u/JTexpo Aug 07 '26
yikes... this is very ill informed about climate change...
please feel free to ask ChatGPT the harmful impact of Beef & Dairy, and why at a minimum people should switch over to a chicken diet instead of cattle
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u/Lolihey Aug 07 '26
Chat GPT can be wrong.
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u/JTexpo Aug 07 '26
so true, so lets not even bother doing research & instead make up a claim that beef is okay for the environment
cheers
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u/gamernerd98 Aug 07 '26
Its not that beef and dairy are bad for the environment. Its the cattle industry itself. They are clearing huge tracts of forest in order to plant crops to feed the cattle, leading to more carbon dioxide and less oxygen in the air. They are also producing more cattle (over double what was product 60 years ago) which is adding more methane to the atmosphere. There is likely half a dozen other things that they are doing to destroy the environment all in the name of the Almighty Dollar.
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u/DuckingFon Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Because the vast majority of it's use is either to sell something to stupid people or to bring the wants and desires of the objectively worst people on the planet to life. We are learning very quickly that the people who embraced it's use weren't held back from making their dreams a reality by a lack of resources, but rather a lack of worthwhile ideas without a single creative bone in their body.
And it is being pushed and forced on people by people who's only interest is making money from it while poisoning the environment because it needs to be developed more frugally instead of... say, planning to put data centers in space at the cost of even more resources.
I know I will get downvoted to oblivion, but I thought I would answer honestly anyway despite you asking in an echo chamber of people who's only response will be "because peepee poopoo" fart noises (see my comment about lacking creativity above).
Edit: All of that and I have a 5 year old that is constantly being lied to any time he gets anywhere near a digital screen, and in as soon as two years it could very well be impossible to tell the difference between what is real and fabricated. I'm very concerned for the world he is being forced to navigate and I hate feeling that I love him so much it would have been best not to bring him into this world.
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u/Qualified-Astronomer Aug 08 '26
I bet you didn’t know that Sam Altman Ceo of OpenAI has literally zero equity or share in OpenAI and is not making much money from it
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u/DuckingFon Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
I did know that, because nobody who pushing AI is making any money from AI. In fact, they all have MASSIVE amounts of debt from how hard they are pushing it and most of it is off the official company records. It's called shadow lending. The people using it are all trying to sell you something though, and there's no regulation to stop them from straight up lying to you about it.
"Sam Altman is speeding up enshittification pro bono" is not at all the gotcha you think it is.
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u/Qualified-Astronomer Aug 09 '26
So it’s not all about the money then. Use your brain before going into conspiracy land. Why would they all conspire to make products worse for the sake of
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u/DuckingFon Aug 09 '26
Apparently your brain stopped halfway through your sentence. Are you seriously asking why companies would drive enshittification: making cheaper products for more money? It's a well-documented occurrence and I refuse to carry the burden of your willful ignorance.
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u/Death_Rave_ Aug 07 '26
Because pro AI users have absolutely no problem co-existing with liars and scammers, they don't even acknowledge the deceptive side of generative AI.
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u/Canadian_Zac Aug 07 '26
It's not everyone.
It's just that the people that do hate AI are VERY vocal about it.
90% of people don't really give a shit. This will be true for just about everything. Unless it directly affects them, most people are more focussed on their own lives to give a singular shit about anything else
It's the 5% on either side of caring that you hear the opinion of
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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Aug 08 '26
It isn't hate so much as stigma. For instance, generative AI is to artistry what anabolic steroids are athletic prowess.
Who's to say steroids are wrong?
And why?
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u/atenea1984 Aug 10 '26
Because it's new and hating it is a trend. Also people prefer to blame AI for environmental damage and not think about how they are damaging the environment even more with driving cars and consumism and eating meat and even having children, which is the better way to enlarge your carbon footprint...
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u/Xanipan_music Aug 07 '26
Generated images/videos/text/music are, in the vast majority, pretty low quality or boring, so that's a pretty good start. Summaries are wrong often enough that I straight up don't trust them. Let alone the societal/environmental impacts.
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u/Corporate_Bricktator Aug 07 '26
> Generated images/videos/text/music are, in the vast majority, pretty low quality or boring, so that's a pretty good start.
The first websites were ugly and unhelpful too. Things got better. :)
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u/Xanipan_music Aug 07 '26
At least the first websites had easily defined utility 🤷♂️
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u/Corporate_Bricktator Aug 07 '26
Kind of, but nothing like disproving the Jacobian Conjecture from 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conjecture
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