What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

(Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

    • bollybing@lemmynsfw.com
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      15 hours ago

      If you get all your info from Lemmy you’d probably think that AI is a worthless hype bubble that can’t do anything right and will collapse and go away in a few years.

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        9 hours ago

        At this point I’d believe AGI already exists and “AI Slop” is just a psy-opp.

        Like how do people reconcile recognizing how AI is negatively effecting society but denying that it could get exponentially more harmful?

        AI-agents (not AGI) will change cyberwarfare like nuclear weapons changed convetional warfare.

        Meanwhile true AGI almost certainly presents an existential threat to humanity. If for no other reason than our own laziness.

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      19 hours ago

      Which seems uninformed and ridiculous as Deep Learning for classification and regression problems is an absolute valid tool that cannot be replaced anymore in many domains. I don’t care about LLM bullshit, but being “against Deep Learning in general” is stupid.

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        16 hours ago

        Nobody* is talking about machine learning when they say “AI” these days. They mean LLMs and generative AI and especially the way it is being forced into everything and destroying the environment to do so.

        * not literally; there is certainly at least one person out there who objects to machine learning, deep learning, or whatever you want to call it. However this is not the general sentiment.

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        18 hours ago

        I think the biggest issues Lemmy has with it, which are valid, boil down to environmental impact, AI being used to replace working class people instead of making their lives better, and the way it’s being used to erase art as a part of human culture. If those three things weren’t an issue I’d be less wary of AI.

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          17 hours ago

          It’s hard for me to feel that the environmental impact is the big reason, there are MUCH bigger fish to fry when it comes to the environment.

          Bitcoin ~65 Mt CO₂/year LLMs <10 Mt CO₂/year (est.) Holiday Flights ~900 Mt CO₂/year

          If the people crying about AI being bad for the environment isn’t also very upset about people taking flights to go on holiday or crypto, then that’s not really what they’re upset about.

          Look, to be honest I wish LLMs were never invented, because I think it will just strip more money away from the poor and feed the rich, but yea, cat is out of the bag. and AI is VERY useful, we can’t deny that.

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            8 hours ago

            This isn’t even taking into consideration eating red meat which has a far great impact than any AI query ever will, but most anti-AI peeps aren’t ready for that conversation.

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              Exactly, If caring about the environment is why you hate AI, but you still eat red meat and take flights on holiday you don’t have a leg to stand on.

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        18 hours ago

        Anti ai nowadays almost exclusively means the over insertion of llms into ordinary life and/or the over trust of a blackbox computer program. People aren’t throwing hands because of alphafold as much as they are a prime minister using a language model to make policy decisions

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      19 hours ago

      Are people anti non-generative AI? Or is broader AI just getting dragged in to the justified anti genAI sentiment?

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        19 hours ago

        I think it’s both. Some people dislike all AI because of generative AI like LLM’s, but many people seem to care about making the distinction between generative AI and traditional ML.

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          10 hours ago

          I suspect a lot of the former group is don’t that out of ignorance or forgetfulness - I do it all the time, because I often assume people are talking about GenAI. Which is probably a reasonable assumption about 90% of the time these days, but it is better to be clear about it.

          Also, a friend who has a background in AI draws a distinction between ML and non-generative AI: ML is basically tools for overpowered statistical analysis and pattern finding, AI is attempts to partially recreate aspects of intelligence, and can include evolutionary algorithms and stuff. Still not sure I see the distinction (and there is overlap), but they’re way more informed than me…

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        19 hours ago

        Are people anti non-generative AI? Or is broader AI just getting dragged in to the justified anti genAI sentiment?

        I formed this question to myself and was about to post it, but then I remembered Lemmy also hates self-driving cars which are likely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Recurrent Nerual Networks (RNN) which are not part of Generative AI at all.

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          16 hours ago

          I think the hatred there is completely disconnected from the fact that it’s AI.

          Both of them have in common that the technology is being forced upon us at the cost of lives, livelihoods, and the environment upon which we all rely to survive.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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            15 hours ago

            I’m not sure I follow your logic. Those reasons you give are still hatred of AI because of those results (job loss, etc). How is that not hatred of AI?

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              10 hours ago

              I agree with Hawke, I think people are against the use of technology in such a way that it exploits workers and customers, not fundamentally against the technology itself.

              Basically like the Luddites - they smashed weaving looms, not because the technology was fundamentally bad, but because it was being used by capitalists to worsen working conditions and destroy livelihoods.

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                8 hours ago

                I agree with Hawke, I think people are against the use of technology in such a way that it exploits workers and customers, not fundamentally against the technology itself.

                I agree with that statement too. Where Hawke and I are disagreeing is I believe Self Driving cars can be used to exploit workers and customers. We already have Waymo robot taxi cabs that are displacing human drivers.

                • naught101@lemmy.world
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                  5 hours ago

                  That’s not how I ready their statement… I think Hawke is saying that AI itself is not inherently bad, just that it’s being used for bad things. The bad things they identified are different from yours, but I think you’re basically saying the same thing over-all?

            • Hawke@lemmy.world
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              15 hours ago

              The self-driving cars are not hatred of AI. Nobody* cares that they use machine-learning to enable the cars to drive themselves.

              It’s not hatred of AI there.

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                13 hours ago

                It’s not hatred of AI there.

                I still disagree, but let me create another hypothetical example that may highlight where we might disagreement further:

                What if Deep Learning (not Gen AI) was used in missile guidance systems specifically to aim toward “people shaped targets”? Would the hate be for AI or just for missiles? If missiles is your answer, where is the distinction in your mind between that and the self-driving cars example?

                • naught101@lemmy.world
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                  10 hours ago

                  GenAI being used in missile guidance makes zero sense - the technology is not applicable there, because you need precision and reliability. Normal AI, sure.

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                    8 hours ago

                    GenAI being used in missile guidance makes zero sense - the technology is not applicable there, because you need precision and reliability. Normal AI, sure.

                    I specifically said “not Gen AI”.

                • Hawke@lemmy.world
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                  There is no relevant distinction.

                  I hate missiles for the damage they do regardless of the technology used to point them at the target.

                  I hate cars for the damage they do regardless of the technology used to point them at the target.

                  There’s a difference of intent (missiles get aimed at people while self driving cars hopefully get aimed away from people).

                  There’s a difference of failure modes (when a self-driving car fails it will often hit a person while a failing missile will miss a person).

                  But theres no reason to hate machine-learning for that, any more there is a reason to hate gyroscopes or lidar or other tools which are also used in guidance systems.

                  If someone had decided that a simple accelerometer were “good enough” to unleash self-driving cars on the general public without consideration for the damage caused, people would be upset and rightly so, but not because of the specific technology itself.

                  Edit: changed AI to “machine-learning”

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 hours ago

      Yes, a lot more compared to other social media. Especially LLM’s and other generative AI ran by big corporations. There are some AI communities on here, but they’re all mostly focused on hosting/running it yourself.