> The middle distribution of Gen-Z’s feelings about AI range from apprehension to downright hatred. Despite the fact that more than half of Gen Z living in the U.S. uses AI regularly, according to a recently released Gallup poll, less than a fifth feel hopeful about the technology. About a third says the technology makes them angry. And nearly half say it makes them afraid.
Gen Z went through a pandemic that destroyed their social lives, then AI comes in to destroy their professional lives (and also their social lives as well).
If anything, I’m surprised this is all that’s happened (so far).
Maladaptivism on
AI being used for mass surveillance, AI being used for military operations, AI being used for hacking, AI being blamed for people losing their job and AI doing a shitty job at anything the public can use it for.
Then they’re surprised people don’t like that the supposed quality of life improvements only lead to enriching people with more money than could be spent in a thousand years? Gee, I wonder if we can figure out how to solve this.
EDIT: Whatever country you’re in, make sure you vote. Only two things that will stop this, laws or violence. I hope for the former, but am unlikely to be the one to ultimately make that decision.Â
Pooch1431 on
They’re going to be building AI enabled drones for self-protection next.
ArchinaTGL on
Well, yes. People see that AI is literally just a grift that only benefits a couple sectors, all the funds go to people who don’t need more money and is at the expense of the entire populace.
People also realise that there is a higher chance of the elite class seeing us as a ‘burden’ after enough of us have been replaced and constructing a plan to rid us all rather than the UBI utopia we were given ideas about. so the backlash isn’t about people ‘not getting AI’ or ‘wanting to stay in the past’, it’s about survival and people not wanting wealth inequality to be taken to an even further extreme than it already is at.
SuddenValley1899 on
It is inevitable with the way we are rolling out Ai with no concern for consequences.Â
foo-bar-nlogn-100 on
Fuck Sam altman
Adlehyde on
Is it really that confusing that the generation that uses AI the most and therefore in general knows most about what it actually can or can’t do, is the angriest at the grifters claiming all these nonsense use cases for it that AI can’t actually do effectively or well? Especially since those claims seem to be convincing to a large subsection of employers that are actively pushing said generation out of the work force?
AI is just… bad. There’s some really specific niche uses cases where it’s been used well, such as medical research, but the vast majority of it has barely any meaningful use beyond novelty. It can barely google for you accurately, but it sure as hell can convince you that it can. Every where it gets tried in professional settings from basic computing, to facial recognition, it just fucks up too often. It is at it’s core a guessing machine. It’s not even on the right track to becoming the General AI these grifters claim it will become, and the fearmongers are scared it’ll become. It’ll never become Skynet. It’s not even the right foundation to transition to that. All it can do is continue to make guesses as to the correct outcome of a prompt. And all they can do to make it better is to just give it more and more processing power. They’re literally already reaching the edges of how effective that is too. This shit has diminishing returns.
This is something I don’t think most people actually even realize yet. AI progress is already slowing down. The updates aren’t changing very much about what it can do or do well anymore. But their CEOs insist it’s making massive leaps in progress and you’re just supposed to take them at their word. These big AI companies have already consumed the majority of useful data on the internet, so it can’t actually get that much “smarter.” It can just spend more energy computing the outcome of a prompt. That’s literally why they want to build more datacenters. Well that and the tax breaks. The demand for AI is not increasing, so there’s no demand side need for processing capacity. They just want it to give better answers so they can grift a little harder to the people investing.
/rant
PresentationSome2427 on
No it’s not. Lol
throwaway-plzbnice on
If you didn’t want people to be so radically angry about AI, maybe your CEOs shouldn’t have been on the news every day saying things like “our tech will make you irrelevant, it’ll take your job and ruin your hobbies and sleep with your wife and also it’s totally useless to resist.”
Simple_Assistance_77 on
Sadly ongoing to get worse. What would people expect when CEOs are repeatedly saying everyone is going to lose their jobs.
GreenFox1505 on
Either AI is a scam or it will destroy public order. Any world where AI is successful results in incredible harm to the vast majority of people.Â
Fake_William_Shatner on
Yes but gains are private, losses are public.Â
Knighth77 on
Thoughts and prayers.
freexanarchy on
It’s not AI backlash, it’s the way I’m which they’re being rolled out. It’s specifically from actions people are taking, not the AI itself.
DaySecure7642 on
Even magically all the CEOs of the AI companies suddenly want to slow down and examine the impact on jobs and the society, the government will have to force them to speed up the development. We have China on the other side of the planet firmly believe that it has the historical right of being the world no.1, and going berserk on catching up on AI.
We have multiple major (if not existential) risks related to AI, none of them are pretty:
1) The US goes too fast on AI and causes massive unemployment.
2) The US slows down a bit and gets caught up by China on AI. Powerful AIs are in control by authoritarian regimes using them for censorship, twisting reality and creating powerful weapons to overwhelm us.
3) Either the US or China goes too fast competing with each other, cutting too many corners for AI alignment, creating powerful rogue AIs having their own agendas.
I will be surprised and really thankful that humanity survives the next 100 years with a free and open society.
tylerthe-theatre on
We haven’t seen anything yet, if and when AI gets really capable…. this is the prologue
SoamesGhost on
Edinburgh city has banned data centre developments. May other cities across the world follow suit. We must protect our water.
letthetreeburn on
Nah, it’s not. This is the dude whose empire is built by people who believe in false flags. I’m gonna say it’s false flags till he is actually physically harmed. Just to piss him off specifically.
DJ_Femme-Tilt on
Finally, some good news
ChaoticSenior on
Whatever it takes. This shit is evil and needs to be shut down.
One_Whole_9927 on
I urge people to check out [quitgpt.org](http://quitgpt.org) . It’s a great resource for information on this topic.
anelectricmind on
What could go wrong….
I mean, instead of building a tool to help humanity and make their lives easier and use it purposefully, They are building it to replace humans and hoard shit tons of money while the poor majority is the one that will face the consequences of AI in their lives.
Instead of being philanthropic and humanitarian about it, they turn into dystopian megalomaniacs… Geez… No wonder the backlash…
eastcoastjon on
This needs to be more. And the crazy palantir guy saying AI will take all our jobs.
MysteriousDatabase68 on
All things considered there’s some sweet irony that statistically speaking some percentage of posts in these threads shitting on ai companies and ai executives… are ai.
meatybacon on
Butlerian Jihad time!
NoTourist5 on
Those data centers are the main source of operation for AI. Without AI and crypto data centers things would be very different
Lucasr6158 on
With how crazy ai is right now (*and by crazy i mean kind of stupid)* what’s going to happen when we get actual robots living day to day in most people’s homes it’s going to be so bad
No-Stick8191 on
AI needs to be stopped.
Social Media ruined Society.
AI will ruin Humanity!
Strict_DM_62 on
The article *almost* gets it all right. What it doesn’t mention, at least directly are two things:
1. Anger and frustration over what looks like a rushed rollout without any thoughts of the impacts; or worse those people advocating for slower are outright silenced.
2. The second is a general distrust of WHO owns the AI; a small, select group of billionaires who very much NOT like the rest of us, do not think like the rest of us, do not believe in the same things as the rest of us, and are forcing this technology down our throats for their own gains.
Fuck em.
mumwifealcoholic on
Honestly?
Fuck em. The Bros are keeping all the benefits for themselves and what ever evil regimes they paying off.
Bring back the guillotine.
Ayotha on
Oh no . . . anyways.
Would be a total shame to continue and I would totally be sad if people keep doing it
TransitionFar5835 on
As it should. They talk about how it will displace a ton of workers, why would we as a society embrace A.I.
joanna_smith88 on
From the constant AI slop and literal genocide of the working class, what is to be expected?
big_thundersquatch on
It’s ruining industries, destroying the quality of products, stealing art, stealing jobs, destroying the environment, destroying peoples’ way of life.
Nothing AI provides in the current corporate state benefits humanity in any meaningful way. Only hurts and hinders those below the 1% financial bracket.
I_AM_THE_NOISE on
Welcome to the second Renaissance
N3wAfrikanN0body on
Nah.
It’s just conmen facing the consequences of their con.
duketogo0138 on
Cool. Would be nice if backlash at emerging authoritarian governments would turn “revolutionary”.
Big_D0093 on
That’s what time it is.
Makapakamoo on
Let’s keep seeing more of these headlines please. Revolution is what I wanna hear
fredrichnietze on
their is a old African proverb that seems appropriate
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”
WarAndGeese on
Calling it AI-related is kind of misattributing it. It’s a standard class war more than anything.
EulerIdentity on
Perhaps even Butlerian . . .
Wonderful_Emu_6483 on
I’m not against using AI as a tool. What I am against, is AI stealing human art, literature, jobs, and greedy corps that are using it to replace people.
I don’t think individuals using AI to problem solve is problematic. Using AI to replace people is a problem. Unfortunately the current US government wants to make sure there is zero regulation or accountability for AI, which is the biggest problem.
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> The middle distribution of Gen-Z’s feelings about AI range from apprehension to downright hatred. Despite the fact that more than half of Gen Z living in the U.S. uses AI regularly, according to a recently released Gallup poll, less than a fifth feel hopeful about the technology. About a third says the technology makes them angry. And nearly half say it makes them afraid.
Gen Z went through a pandemic that destroyed their social lives, then AI comes in to destroy their professional lives (and also their social lives as well).
If anything, I’m surprised this is all that’s happened (so far).
AI being used for mass surveillance, AI being used for military operations, AI being used for hacking, AI being blamed for people losing their job and AI doing a shitty job at anything the public can use it for.
Then they’re surprised people don’t like that the supposed quality of life improvements only lead to enriching people with more money than could be spent in a thousand years? Gee, I wonder if we can figure out how to solve this.
EDIT: Whatever country you’re in, make sure you vote. Only two things that will stop this, laws or violence. I hope for the former, but am unlikely to be the one to ultimately make that decision.Â
They’re going to be building AI enabled drones for self-protection next.
Well, yes. People see that AI is literally just a grift that only benefits a couple sectors, all the funds go to people who don’t need more money and is at the expense of the entire populace.
People also realise that there is a higher chance of the elite class seeing us as a ‘burden’ after enough of us have been replaced and constructing a plan to rid us all rather than the UBI utopia we were given ideas about. so the backlash isn’t about people ‘not getting AI’ or ‘wanting to stay in the past’, it’s about survival and people not wanting wealth inequality to be taken to an even further extreme than it already is at.
It is inevitable with the way we are rolling out Ai with no concern for consequences.Â
Fuck Sam altman
Is it really that confusing that the generation that uses AI the most and therefore in general knows most about what it actually can or can’t do, is the angriest at the grifters claiming all these nonsense use cases for it that AI can’t actually do effectively or well? Especially since those claims seem to be convincing to a large subsection of employers that are actively pushing said generation out of the work force?
AI is just… bad. There’s some really specific niche uses cases where it’s been used well, such as medical research, but the vast majority of it has barely any meaningful use beyond novelty. It can barely google for you accurately, but it sure as hell can convince you that it can. Every where it gets tried in professional settings from basic computing, to facial recognition, it just fucks up too often. It is at it’s core a guessing machine. It’s not even on the right track to becoming the General AI these grifters claim it will become, and the fearmongers are scared it’ll become. It’ll never become Skynet. It’s not even the right foundation to transition to that. All it can do is continue to make guesses as to the correct outcome of a prompt. And all they can do to make it better is to just give it more and more processing power. They’re literally already reaching the edges of how effective that is too. This shit has diminishing returns.
This is something I don’t think most people actually even realize yet. AI progress is already slowing down. The updates aren’t changing very much about what it can do or do well anymore. But their CEOs insist it’s making massive leaps in progress and you’re just supposed to take them at their word. These big AI companies have already consumed the majority of useful data on the internet, so it can’t actually get that much “smarter.” It can just spend more energy computing the outcome of a prompt. That’s literally why they want to build more datacenters. Well that and the tax breaks. The demand for AI is not increasing, so there’s no demand side need for processing capacity. They just want it to give better answers so they can grift a little harder to the people investing.
/rant
No it’s not. Lol
If you didn’t want people to be so radically angry about AI, maybe your CEOs shouldn’t have been on the news every day saying things like “our tech will make you irrelevant, it’ll take your job and ruin your hobbies and sleep with your wife and also it’s totally useless to resist.”
Sadly ongoing to get worse. What would people expect when CEOs are repeatedly saying everyone is going to lose their jobs.
Either AI is a scam or it will destroy public order. Any world where AI is successful results in incredible harm to the vast majority of people.Â
Yes but gains are private, losses are public.Â
Thoughts and prayers.
It’s not AI backlash, it’s the way I’m which they’re being rolled out. It’s specifically from actions people are taking, not the AI itself.
Even magically all the CEOs of the AI companies suddenly want to slow down and examine the impact on jobs and the society, the government will have to force them to speed up the development. We have China on the other side of the planet firmly believe that it has the historical right of being the world no.1, and going berserk on catching up on AI.
We have multiple major (if not existential) risks related to AI, none of them are pretty:
1) The US goes too fast on AI and causes massive unemployment.
2) The US slows down a bit and gets caught up by China on AI. Powerful AIs are in control by authoritarian regimes using them for censorship, twisting reality and creating powerful weapons to overwhelm us.
3) Either the US or China goes too fast competing with each other, cutting too many corners for AI alignment, creating powerful rogue AIs having their own agendas.
I will be surprised and really thankful that humanity survives the next 100 years with a free and open society.
We haven’t seen anything yet, if and when AI gets really capable…. this is the prologue
Edinburgh city has banned data centre developments. May other cities across the world follow suit. We must protect our water.
Nah, it’s not. This is the dude whose empire is built by people who believe in false flags. I’m gonna say it’s false flags till he is actually physically harmed. Just to piss him off specifically.
Finally, some good news
Whatever it takes. This shit is evil and needs to be shut down.
I urge people to check out [quitgpt.org](http://quitgpt.org) . It’s a great resource for information on this topic.
What could go wrong….
I mean, instead of building a tool to help humanity and make their lives easier and use it purposefully, They are building it to replace humans and hoard shit tons of money while the poor majority is the one that will face the consequences of AI in their lives.
Instead of being philanthropic and humanitarian about it, they turn into dystopian megalomaniacs… Geez… No wonder the backlash…
This needs to be more. And the crazy palantir guy saying AI will take all our jobs.
All things considered there’s some sweet irony that statistically speaking some percentage of posts in these threads shitting on ai companies and ai executives… are ai.
Butlerian Jihad time!
Those data centers are the main source of operation for AI. Without AI and crypto data centers things would be very different
With how crazy ai is right now (*and by crazy i mean kind of stupid)* what’s going to happen when we get actual robots living day to day in most people’s homes it’s going to be so bad
AI needs to be stopped.
Social Media ruined Society.
AI will ruin Humanity!
The article *almost* gets it all right. What it doesn’t mention, at least directly are two things:
1. Anger and frustration over what looks like a rushed rollout without any thoughts of the impacts; or worse those people advocating for slower are outright silenced.
2. The second is a general distrust of WHO owns the AI; a small, select group of billionaires who very much NOT like the rest of us, do not think like the rest of us, do not believe in the same things as the rest of us, and are forcing this technology down our throats for their own gains.
Fuck em.
Honestly?
Fuck em. The Bros are keeping all the benefits for themselves and what ever evil regimes they paying off.
Bring back the guillotine.
Oh no . . . anyways.
Would be a total shame to continue and I would totally be sad if people keep doing it
As it should. They talk about how it will displace a ton of workers, why would we as a society embrace A.I.
From the constant AI slop and literal genocide of the working class, what is to be expected?
It’s ruining industries, destroying the quality of products, stealing art, stealing jobs, destroying the environment, destroying peoples’ way of life.
Nothing AI provides in the current corporate state benefits humanity in any meaningful way. Only hurts and hinders those below the 1% financial bracket.
Welcome to the second Renaissance
Nah.
It’s just conmen facing the consequences of their con.
Cool. Would be nice if backlash at emerging authoritarian governments would turn “revolutionary”.
That’s what time it is.
Let’s keep seeing more of these headlines please. Revolution is what I wanna hear
their is a old African proverb that seems appropriate
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”
Calling it AI-related is kind of misattributing it. It’s a standard class war more than anything.
Perhaps even Butlerian . . .
I’m not against using AI as a tool. What I am against, is AI stealing human art, literature, jobs, and greedy corps that are using it to replace people.
I don’t think individuals using AI to problem solve is problematic. Using AI to replace people is a problem. Unfortunately the current US government wants to make sure there is zero regulation or accountability for AI, which is the biggest problem.