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The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding (www.reuters.com)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 91 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is pro-AI propaganda disguised by a headline people will share...

They don't talk about the real reasons people hate AI, just imply it's because everyone thinks they can't compete with it.

Reuters is doing this, because theyve invested hundreds of millions into AI:

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2023/november/thomson-reuters-unveils-generative-ai-strategy-designed-to-transform-the-future-of-professionals

If people realize it's bullshit, they lose that money. And maybe all their companies.

So they know "people don't like ai" headlines will get shared by people and make their propaganda reach more eyeballs and make more people feel like AI is inevitable and they should invest

C'mon people, we need to start paying attention to this shit

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

But I can't compete with AI. It takes me much longer to delete mission critical data through stupidity than it does for AI.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Not with that attitude...

A human can use a drill thru an AIs hard drive, I haven't seen any AI do that yet

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You need to be more strategic in your deletions, friend. It's not a matter of how much you delete, but what you delete

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

At least in America, reading comprehension isn't very good

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

Are there any major news organizations that haven't made a deal with these so-called AI companies that we should start calling llms? Cuz they are not artificial intelligence, not by a long shot. The guardian made a deal with them. Obviously the New York Times that is cursed by both man and God has made a deal with them.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They're booing but they still use it

[–] teft@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This comment has real “you live in a society” vibes.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I mean this is an extreme case. The booing warms my heart but everyone I know who is in teaching is either 100% on the Kool Aid IV drip or absolutely crashing out over what they feel is the end of organized society.

An old friend of mine was a younger, well liked middle school teacher who was very motivated to get the kids interested in actually wanting to seek out more stuff and to nurture that, since our curricula here are ancient. She quit this year. Outright. Mid fucking year. She says that in French the chatbots are even more repetitive and every student from the most inattentive to the “best” seems incapable to hand in any essay without at least running it through the slop machine for good measure.

The infinitesimally thin silver lining is that I’m not just hearing of AI fatigue online.

But the kids call it lies, they say “that’s AI” to mean that’s a hoax, they call their memes brainrot, so the self awareness is there. Then they completely fall apart on writing and researching. I was a dreadfully unfocused categorically shit student with a bad work ethic at school and even I’m offended

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 3 days ago

Not really. The people criticising society are doing so because they want to live in a society but a better version of it. The alternative of building another society is monumental.

The people booing AI seem to fundamentally oppose what it has done, what it is doing and what it will do. But they choose to directly support this product through contributing to the user count, funding, data collection, imrpvoement, normalisation. The alternative is them losing next to nothing by ignoring it. They probably even gain by not using ai.

But comment was not about the audience specifically because I'm sure some of them avoid ai. It was directed at the article claiming that young people hate AI and me saying but they use and they do have a very high adoption rate. If I recall its something like 80% use it weekly highest of any age group.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And some don't have a choice if they want to keep the lights on and feed their family. Fuck capitalism. Basic income would solve so many of societal ills that I'm starting to get suspicious why it hasn't been implemented yet, now that we are constantly throwing around meaningless words like "billions" and "trillions".

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 days ago

Bro there is no one that has to use AI to keep the lights on. You're cooked.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

But probably not for worker suppression, propaganda milling, and mass surveillance.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding

wake me up when they replace booing with rioting

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gen Z might be the only one who can generally recognize just how limited the technology is but are also moving into a world where finding a well-paying job is not a guarantee even for those with experience and training.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

They know they don't get a piece of the pie.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Graduates might be wise enough to boo, but I know too many in the same age group who use it. The parents, of course, do not supervise their device use adequately when they were growing up and the evidence shows in other areas of their lives.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

The same reuters articles just this morning, which I just read when I woke up, have it all broken down by age groups and race who uses AI how much, and it's a lot more than I would have hoped. I believe us in the never use it are like 19%

[–] BaroqBard@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I have to say though, that last graph about "Views on AI Improve with Use" seems extremely disingenuous. It's just indicating that those who use it more tend to have a positive opinion of it, not that "Views Improve". Naturally AI fans are going to use the damn thing. I can only hope that the propaganda doesn't take hold and that the zoomers continue rejecting "AI" normalization.