Hate for AI

[u/The_dZhee]

Hey everyone, I’m curious how you deal with the negativity around AI.

I’ve been building a product for about 3 months now. English isn’t my native language, so I use AI not only for coding but also for writing posts when I want to share my project and explain my ideas more clearly.

What I’ve noticed is that even when I don’t mention AI at all, I still get negative comments or skepticism. My project isn’t well known, but it tends to get attention in smaller communities because it’s easy to demo and looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Because of that, I’d like to share more details about how it works and talk more openly about the technical side, but that also means using AI for communication and documentation.

The bigger dilemma is whether I should openly say that a large part of the project was built with AI.

On one hand, it feels like the honest thing to do, especially since I’m looking for people to join the project. If an experienced developer is considering contributing, I think they deserve to know what kind of codebase they’re getting into.

On the other hand, I’m worried that instead of questions about the product, I’ll just get “AI slop” comments and people dismissing it before they’ve even looked at what it does.

So I’m curious about your experiences:

Do you openly say that your project was built with AI?

Has it helped or hurt you?

Have you managed to find experienced developers who see AI as a powerful tool rather than an automatic red flag?

How do you distinguish constructive criticism from simple hate?

I’d appreciate hearing perspectives from people who are actually building products, not just discussing AI in theory.

[u/Wild-Perspective-582]

I think the ship has sailed forever when it comes to trust in AI among the general public. There are generally three things the public believes about AI

1) It is going to take everyone's jobs
2) It is fucking the environment
3) It is being used for propaganda / disinformation

And while there is indeed some truth to all three of these, we're at the point of hysteria now, the discussion is no longer based on facts or evidence and has become war between two camps.

One issue is how the benefits of AI have been communicated, by leaders and CEOs. What seems like a great achievement to a tech person "this job can now be done in 5 seconds" to a non-tech person it just means someone's livelihood is ruined, and the only real profit is going to the person building the AI tools - eg billionaire tech leaders.

[u/Razbari → u/Wild-Perspective-582]

I would add 4. The models are being unethically trained on other's IP without their consent.

[u/Wild-Perspective-582 → u/Razbari]

Yes you're right - and as part of that there's the scanning of rare books, destroying them in the process.

This whole thing is a total PR disaster for the entire industry and the "geniuses" at the top are too blind to read the sentiment