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In fairness one of those guys is literal Elon Musk. The others could hope for obscurity?

This is the first generation that's been able to put an actual face to the few who are openly intent on stealing their identity, privacy, creativity and purpose ... ... and no-one is shocked that they're all obscenely rich, racist, misogynistic white men. What's not to loathe?

Like wow, i'm sooo shocked everyone else is openly fantasising about killing you. the world is being turned into an open air prison where the most craven pedophiles are nakedly above the law and you're a big part of that plan, and people are getting...upset, maybe? that seems bad i think

It's a bit of both. AI is the newest scam to get fascism's foot in the door.

But it’s only because every single one of those tech CEOs is a creepy, greedy, socially maladjusted weirdo who is actively trying to bring about the end of the world in their own weird creepy way.

I would also like to believe this, but don't know how to reconcile it with the fact that Amodei's approval score is well under that of Zuck/Altman/Musk.

For most of history, the people systematically fucking everyone over, robbing us blind and polluting our world were content to be anonymous. These fuckers wanted to be famous and neglected to ask what that would mean, actually. Surprise.

The fact that they really do sound both stupid and evil helps too though.

The young aren't the only ones....

Yeah, if you're openly fascist you will anger a lot of people, it's not complicated.

It doesn't hurt that they're all sex criminals (allegedly!) either.

Given that "AI" depends on a lack of consent and carries a fundamental hostility toward workers and the very concept of the arts, it is deeply and I would say inevitably intertwined with neofascism, though.

I know that other topics are very important, but this one ignites ppl from both sides. It doesn't help Elon's corruption seeing a video of him laughing at ppl complaining abt their energy bills going up.

like, i believe only a deeply incurious person would think of building a model that can neither reason nor can be reasoned about

Yeah, no one who has seriously interacted with the latest models can refute their utility. I think people hate AI ceos (for good reason ) and would be much less anti-AI if open weight models had been the ones to become more capable first.

First response: “whoa, that’s wild. Super cool.” A few months later: “You’re doing what with it? Why would you do that? What’s wrong with you?” A year or two later “Oh neat, that’s a good idea.” I’m still cycling between these reactions now.

I really want to be able to like this tech, it should allow us to do really cool things while being regulated in a way that avoids the worst! Instead the worst people alive are dedicated to making it the worst-possible-thing-machine.

And also because the hype-masters just keep lying about capabilities that will never be there because both wrongness and prompt-injection are fundamental issues.

Evidence that the people obsessed with dismantling the regulatory state were actually benefitting quite a lot from the regulatory state.

I do wonder if it's possible to rehabilitate AI's image in the future given how its pretty much right-coded thanks to Big Tech allying with the GOP and the current administration using it to post memes.

If AI had the same populist optimist, unicorns and rainbows the internet did in the 80s and 90s, we’d love it. But it is controlled by people who are full of malice. And we know it. And they know it.

Could be the feeling that these people are taking their “inheritance” with seemingly little that can be done about it

all this plus "Sometimes I can tell when it's bullshitting me, but I have met enough of the general populace to appreciate that they will not be able to make that determination."

Not to mention the top down directives from execs to use it at every available moment. Don’t recall my boss grading my performance on whether or not I used eg. Excel

Yeah. The tech overlords bent over backwards to make clear, "no, we're not trying to build tools that make you more productive, make your life easier, or create shared prosperity. Our purpose is to enhance our wealth and control at your expense; we hope and expect AI to make you permanent serfs."

LLMs are a cool idea and could be a cool tech but every single tech CEO is a cartoonishly evil shithead who is desperately forcing LLMs on everyone in the most evil ways possible so I have no choice but to fucking hate it and hate them lol

You're not going to have jobs, you will not have any form of creative fulfillment, you're never going to own a physical object again, you will never have any privacy. We will turn the seas to acid, salt the earth, poison the skies, and make a garbage heap of the firmament itself. ...ISN'T IT GREAT?

The Roko's Basilisk true believer "futurist" cult and the ultra-capitalist tech company grifting currently propping up the "AI Industry" have a lot of overlapping interests with fascism, not least the gullible reactionary fanbase. Young people are noticing that it all depends on a few assholes.

Amodei/anthropic have publicly fought the administration. Elon Musk has actively participated in the fascism. These polls show Musk with higher trust 🤷🏻‍♂️

They’ve destroyed the kids futures with their greed / fascism - why wouldn’t you hate them?

that and the way prominent AI boosters basically threatened everyone with "we are inventing the machine that will make you lose your job and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it". AI is actually very popular in countries that don't speak English, lol

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I’m surprised that people who wake up every day, seemingly with the goal of proving they are the worst possible human beings in the world, for all time, are not more popular. We must just not appreciate their genius.

As much as I want to believe people truly deeply hate ai, it really is a lot less blunt than that. They’re annoyed about aspects of it, think the people in charge screwed up its potential, but still wanna hope it can come around in the future post crash.

Even if AI is cool I am not super enthusiastic about tech fascists' control of or plan for AI.

They're so scared they're building bunkers to hide from us. I *LOVE* this for them.

Then there must be reasons why they no longer feel that is necessary

Probably doesn't help that they're all very unlikeable on top of it, but keep putting themselves in front of people.

they're the same picture though

The kids are alright