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Adam Conover: Here's Proof EVERYONE hates A.I. (Video) (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 64 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why is this community suddenly overflowing with AI fanboys? I'm sick of it.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Consider how much money is behind AI right now and it's a lot easier to understand.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is the implication here that the AI industry are astroturfing Lemmy/Piefed?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    1, I don't really believe lemmy is as inconsiderable as people like to think, but whatever.

    2, the money put into AI manifests in a ton of different ways. You've got people who like it because they want their stocks to go up, people who like it because their office pampers them for being a good sport about using it, people who like it because of the cultural osmosis of seeing it at the super bowl, as an ad between every 3rd and 4th reddit post, probably on the sidebar or whatever on polymarket, and you have people who like the fetishistic technofuturism of it all, a public image which is another product of ad agencies more or less.

    So, even if no one is astro turfing lemmy in specific, our culture is still being astroturfed out the ass.

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  • [+] -22 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    I don’t see “fanboys” here, I see more nuanced posts of differing views.

    Does the sub have a rule that its pitchforks and cheerleading only here? Sounds boring. It’s boring just like how reading the 1000th Lemmy comment that says “this is why I pirate on my Linux box.” Is boring.

    Shallow cheerleading won’t help the fuck ai cause, honestly.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Read the description, Sparky. Here, I'll help you out by highlighting the important part:

    A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype.

    Now go find a slop-gobbling group for your "nuance" (correctly spelled: "marketing bullshit").

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    i honestly believe it isn’t that everyone here is only pitchforks and cheerleading. i agree “fuck AI” on the surface, semantically is a gross oversimplification without nuance; but rhetorically this really means “fuck AI corporations and their cronies”.

    this community isn’t strictly fuck AI from a technology standpoint, but from the environmental and socioeconomic standpoint.

    the “fanboys” refers to are supporters of the massive corporations pushing their slop and enshittification, which i hope you despise as much as the rest of us

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You read a lot of your own bullshit into this choom. Don't put words in my mouth.

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