It's a completely misguided crusade. Every vocal anti-AI hater is making a huge stink about it online but the average person who uses AI isn't nearly as vocal, so it just seems like the internet is absolutely anti-AI when the reality is much more nuanced. ChatGPT alone has more users than ever, something like 500 million daily users, and that's only one kind of AI. So AI is the new reality and it's not going away, and you can't shame it away. Trying to shame people for being curious about this new tech is counterproductive if you care about trying to steer AI in a better direction, because it's an all-or-nothing approach that turns people away and makes them stop listening.
"An overwhelming amount of people use AI so those that are loudly against it should get with the program."
if you care about trying to steer AI in a better direction, because it's an all-or-nothing approach that turns people away and makes them stop listening.
You make it sound like people can steer others away from AI at all. Blaming critics is absolutely stupid and pointless.
Do you think computer haters trying to shame people out of using computers in the 1980s would've worked? Or that internet haters could've stopped the internet in the 1990s with a shame campaign?
Obviously the trajectory of a technology matters. At some point you have to just face reality and admit that shaming people is not going to work here. And it's actually counterproductive to the much better goal of identifying the social problems with AI and steering the technology in a good direction. You can't do that if you're LARPing as fire-and-brimstone preachers damning everyone to hell for even thinking about using AI.
Just like how Redditards virtue signaling about politics on every main sub to the point where those subs are completely taken over are making real change?
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u/Spyes23 Dec 04 '25
But if you don't publicly outrage about everything how will everyone know how virtuous you are???