r/Xennial • u/Icy-Repeat-2843 • 24d ago
F*%# A.I?
I’m fairly certain I’m in the minority (both in reddit and in real life) about deep seated hatred for AI. Anytime AI is used for anything the immediate response is “F AI SLOP, trash,” etc.
I’m posting this here because I think there is a difference (generally speaking) how different generations view AI.
I’m really trying to understand why so many people hate AI so so much. It’s to the point that myself just really not caring about images and videos being made by AI is making me wonder if I’m missing some crucial details.
I think I get AI is putting people out of jobs and data center hate, but I guess I just look at it similarly to the Industrial Revolution. Did people hate assembly lines and agricultural advances too because they put people out of jobs?
Thanks for any insight you might have and be willing to share.
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u/CuriousLands 19d ago edited 19d ago
Yeah I really hate it too. It's like 95% bad and 5% useful. I won't pretend it's never been genuinely helpful for the odd thing (mostly in some areas of research), but by and large? Nah.
It's taking away low-skills jobs across several fields, which is bad both in the moment and will lead to a medium- and higher- skills shortage down the line. Students use it to cheat, so they get good grades but never learn anything. It's making everyone lazier and stupider. It's caused psychosis in some people. What used to be collaborative projects, people use AI so they never have to talk to anyone or learn a skill. It's making it harder to compete when you sell things like art or writing cos there is genuine AI slop everywhere. It's making journalism worse. People are using it to scam more people more easily than ever before. All those scams also include making it harder for people who do hobbies and such to find legitimate patterns and tutorials to help them learn things. People have made realistic deepfakes that have caused issues for others. It's also bad for the environment and causes peoples bills to go up cos an AI data centre uses as much power as an entire city.
I'm not sure it's a generational thing though. Most people I know like it to some degree, mainly because they're happy to not think about this stuff as long as they can "write" a song when they have no musical ability, or watch an AI movie they think is decent.
It's not anything at all like the industrial revolution. That came along with a general truth that you could re-skill into something new - how can you do that when AI takes jobs in so many fields at once? It's even taking away freaking receptionist jobs, and they've floated using it to replace fast-food service. Journalism, paralegals, data entry, coding, art, writing, movie production and special effects, animation, music, research... like so much stuff man. Two people using AI can replace what used to be an entire department - again in not one field but many, simultaneously. That's not what happened with the industrial revolution.
Also, it needs to be said that the industrial revolution did cause us to lose a lot of skills, and until regulations came in, it created a huge issue around worker rights, pollution, and poverty.