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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

AI is absolutely going to be transformative but a lot of the hate right now isn't the technology itself but the way companies are jumping on it and forcing it down the throats of people who don't want it, in a way that worsens their customer experience. Yes, let's force AI into every software product. Yes let's take away the humans you used to talk to and make them all bots instead.

Even from within tech itself there is huge resentment because you've got corps pumping billions into AI while at the same time slashing their workforce to afford those billions, with no clear return in sight.

Tech is treating AI as the next dotcom boom and pumping everything into it, but just like it did then the bubble of investment will burst, and there will be losers as well as winners.

I'm running self-hosted LLMs at home and I'm having huge fun experimenting with their capabilities. I just wish LLMs could have been implemented in the real world with space for ethics and the human factor, not the pure profit chasing bullshit we actually got.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AI is absolutely going to be transformative but a lot of the hate right now isn't the technology itself but the way companies are jumping on it and forcing it down the throats of people who don't want it, in a way that worsens their customer experience.

Exactly.

We did the same shit with mobile apps in 2009 - there was a mobile app - that no one wanted - being pushed hard - for every imaginable purpose.

I do still use mobile apps.

But I don't have a dedicated mobile app installed for buying socks for my pets.

AI, today, is burdened with the same shit. It'll calm down, after failing to deliver the vast majority of what is currently being promised.

[–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I agree, but I think there is no around this forcing down the throat, slashing people in favour of barely functioning product. Don't get me wrong, I wish it was done the right and fair way, but realistically no one with any power wants it done in a fair way.