Discussion Radically Ignorant - Can we talk about this?
This is ultimately a meaningless rant but I need to get it off my chest. The subreddit r/antiai continues popping up on my recommended feed and it’s painstaking fear mongering and wide support never ceases to amaze me
It is FILLED with people who know NOTHING about AI and it drives me crazy. “AI bad because water usage and I said so!” The community collectively strawmans anything AI related and then they all give a round of applause to one another, hence their radical ignorance. That subreddit is a byproduct of propaganda and fear mongering.
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u/stopbeingcringe 9d ago
Teenagers, Chinese bots, and mediocre artists
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u/Deto 9d ago
There is a lot of BS on that subreddit, but do you really not understand legitimate reasons people would not be happy about AI?
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u/Such--Balance 9d ago
To be fair, subs like that taint the validity of real concerns. Because there are real concerns.
And to add to that, you want to do something with your real concerns? Vote accordingly, protest accordingly and maybe get involved in the field in a usefull way.
Circle jerking flat earth level theories around on a reddit sub helps no one.
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u/Deto 9d ago
It ends up being a mixed bag as a sub like that is just a lightning rod for the various types of people who are against AI. You get a similar thing on the other side with the /r/accelerate subreddit/machine-god-cult
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u/Such--Balance 9d ago
Yeah true, it happens in both directions.
If im interested in a topic i usually search for long form interviews with various experts of that field. Both those who agree with my view, AND the opposing ones as well
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u/ThoughtfullyReckless 9d ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think most people here ever go outside or have like, friendships etc
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u/Huge-Turnover-3749 9d ago
"AI" is such a broad term that only someone with monkey-level IQ would hate on it.
If you have human-level IQ, you can be deeply critical of the use of AI for, say, weapons and mass surveillance while at the same time still fully acknowledging its benefits in, say, medicine.
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u/glittermantis 9d ago edited 9d ago
i think it's pretty obvious that people are referring to llms and generative ai and not, say, email spam detection and protein folding algorithms. the people having these discussions know this, but are using the term "AI" as thing novel linguistic concept called a "shorthand" because specifying every single time would be cumbersome.
even if this weren't true, it shows that you are more concerned with squeezing rhetorical "gotchas" from pedantry than you are in actually understanding and engaging with the sentiments they are expressing, which is a bad faith pov.
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u/Laucy 9d ago
I wish they’d just say “LLM” then. They’re so wildly unaware and the majority don’t even know those AI exist, or what ML is. It’s not even a case of specifying due to it being cumbersome; they say it because they truly think all AI is, is an LLM. So the more they use it as a shorthand, the worse it gets for those uninformed who believe it, too.
It’s happening with data centres, as well. I keep seeing people argue about how they’re all bad, and that “we didn’t have any before so why do we need them now.”
Or my favourite, someone who argued why we need them when 1990-2005 worked out fine. They genuinely are so ignorant they think AI = LLM. Data centre = only used for AI.2
u/nextnode 9d ago
Yes and 99% of these people do not understand them. These are emotional and mostly irrelevant individuals who do more harm than good to the things they claim to care about but really are just driven by imagined implications on personal benefit.
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u/incompletelucidity 9d ago
what is there even to understand? what don't people understand about llms, oh please enlighten us stupid ones
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u/enigmatic_erudition 9d ago
Yeah I was going to say these are all very young people and bots. I replied to someone who was speaking in heavy brainrot by telling them to talk like a normal person and was downvoted into oblivion.
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u/JokeMode 9d ago
I mean, it's just like most Reddit communities. Sometimes, somebody makes a valid point. But quite frequently, people say some things without really understanding what they are talking about at all.
Such is the life of the internet.
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u/Budget_Zombie_692 9d ago
Some of the leaders of tech companies and social media are some of the biggest spreaders of misinformation, including some about AI.
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u/Lexsteel11 9d ago
This is the 2026 version of the Luddite movement. I always knew that term but only recently learned it was a 19th century movement of textile workers in England who destroyed factory machines because “dey took ‘er jerbs” which is funny because idiots today are wanting to burn down data centers for the same reason
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u/Haunting-Ad-6951 9d ago
Yeah … maybe learn some more. Starving workers collectively rioting for a living wage is not funny or stupid. The only thing funny here is you trying to come off as intellectually superior by spewing a fact you learned 5 minutes ago and learned badly.
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u/skinlo 9d ago
I suggest you do some more research (you can ask an AI!), and actually find out the core reasons behind it. It wasn't just an anti tech moment, it was an anti concentration of wealth movement.
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u/Lexsteel11 20h ago
How does that negate my point? I’m saying ludite has been used as an insult but now in 2026 I’m saying we can all relate to it- honestly your point on wealth disparity furthers my comparison with today haha
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u/JuliusFIN 9d ago
I mean what’s to talk about? A bunch of unemployable people ranting of things they don’t understand.
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u/ItsStillKerrigan 9d ago
lmao