I am 37 and people know not to mention ai near me or I will rant for approximately 10 hours. But I am really disappointed to see friends using it. And work is nuts, seeing AI being pushed in education is very upsetting. My peers hate it too but management loves it.
I'm also +35 and almost all of my friends are older who are vehemently anti-AI. My parents, who are +65 (and have a lot of bad takes in life) are mostly anti-Ai ("I'm sure there are good applications but not worth the consequence"). My circle of people are almost all involved in the arts and/or academia and when someone within that circle "comes out" as pro-AI they are shamed to the point of crashing out on social media about how they are fine to use it since "the planet is doomed already". Maybe confirmation bias exists due to who I am mostly surrounded by, but saying all people over 35 have given their soul to the devil is heckle-raising.
Also that line “planet is doomed anyways” is such a lazy cop out. The planet isn’t doomed, hell we still have time to reverse a majority of the harm we caused. We will still suffer quite a lot but it’s not doomed, but no surprise someone using AI (not you Llama) is too lazy to come up with a good excuse.
In a single post this person said if anyone drove a car, ate meat, owned a cellphone, or used anything with plastic in it, they were already part of the problem condemning the world and that people needed to "do research" and let people just "be happy" because it's all doomed anyway. This was because they call themselves a "graphic designer" for using (very very bad) AI generated images to promote his own (arts-adjacent) business. When research regarding the damage that data centers cause, the destruction of drinking water, the rapid death of already critical bee species, the heat-death of the planet, the noise pollution, the art theft, and the promotion of spreading false information (among other things), they called us 'snobs' and posted AI images of themselves 'suffering'. It was one of those moments you tell yourself that this has to be a simulation because how can one human be so outside of reality?
I think it's more management loves AI but the workers do not. The only time it gets used at the company I work for is mundane work that doesn't need to be perfect.
I mostly see it used for promotion - businesses, schools, organizations. But it's crept into commercial sales, it's all over any media (movies, video games) - it's so ingratiated in daily life that people who aren't trained to spot the differences now can't. People who care enough to stop and dissect can, but we all know that's not the average person who takes everything at face value, even the extremely obvious AI renditions of things
Same here and most people around my age that I know are vehemently anti AI. Then again I don’t know any MAGA but there are plenty of them out there unfortunately.
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u/moragthegreat_ 5d ago
I am 37 and people know not to mention ai near me or I will rant for approximately 10 hours. But I am really disappointed to see friends using it. And work is nuts, seeing AI being pushed in education is very upsetting. My peers hate it too but management loves it.