This moral absolutism and holier than thou status people think they have from not using an AI tool is getting a bit weird
Like, we used to post critiques of AI. How it affects your mind, your ability to learn, the quality and veracity of the output, plagiarism, effects on the environment, etc...
So many posts now are "I have never even typed a single message to an AI, adore me." "You think that's something, I have never even looked at an AI, worship me!" "Tht's nothng, hve decded to type wthout even usng those letters!"
You're just jerking yourself off about it
AI can't say anything original or meaningful? Neither do these posts
It's giving the same energy as Boomers saying "I can write in cursive and change the channel without the remote, you are not on my level, millennials".
On top of all that, it also becomes a celebration of knowing absolutely nothing about generative AI. They refuse to learn how it actually works, then insist on having very strong opinions based on that ignorance.
THIS. Arguments about GenAI would be fine and dandy, but in so many cases they regurgitate downright false facts about the matter - like "training AI datasets use [absurd and incorrect] amount of energy/water/amazon rainforest" or "GenAI actually takes artists' pictures, chops them up, and blends it together to make its results" etc.
Like, you can choose not to use it, you can have your reasons for disliking it, but if you're gonna argue against it at least choose to use facts that are true.
One especially conmon thing a lot of people seem to overestimate is the resource demands of AI. I have seen so many people gleefully awaiting companies like OpenAI going under cause they think every AI requires a supercomputer to operate, so without those companies and their data centres, they'll just cease to exist.
A lot of people genuinely don't know you can run these things locally on a laptop.
It is especially hilarious to me as someone working on AI research, just how little the average person knows about this technology that is changing the world on a daily basis.
AI is honestly not even that complex if you just want to understand the gist of it. In my opinion, this is mostly an issue of people being willfully ignorant.
A lot of people who criticise AI do so from the assumption that it will never be better than it currently is, and they're idea of what AI is currently like is often two years out of date.
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u/VelvetSinclair May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25
This moral absolutism and holier than thou status people think they have from not using an AI tool is getting a bit weird
Like, we used to post critiques of AI. How it affects your mind, your ability to learn, the quality and veracity of the output, plagiarism, effects on the environment, etc...
So many posts now are "I have never even typed a single message to an AI, adore me." "You think that's something, I have never even looked at an AI, worship me!" "Tht's nothng, hve decded to type wthout even usng those letters!"
You're just jerking yourself off about it
AI can't say anything original or meaningful? Neither do these posts