Unpopular Opinion
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I agree there's a bandwagon effect here but it's not age-related. I'm one of the older members you're lumping together and I unashamedly use AI and I don't participate in the rampant downvoting or raging against AI here. I simply feel you can't fit this behavior neatly into one bucket.
Sorry I didn't mean to lump all older folks of Lemmy. Although sometimes background has influence on the view of a person. I am young and more receptive to new experiences. So maybe that is one reason why I am relatively open to using AI.
Nonetheless, I spoke to older folks about AI outside of Lemmy, they work in IT too like many Lemmy users are, but they recognise the potential of AI despite the current models being overrated. Never mind the negative ecological and social impact of AI, but it's only with Lemmy I see that they think AI will never improve technical wise and think rocks have more consciousness. So this gives me the impression that a combination of demographic background and the feeling of uncanny valley are the reasons for the pure dismissal of technical potential and capability of AI. Which makes me wonder, are we seeing the onset of AI and robo-phobia that are depicted in stories such as Astroboy, iRobot and Detroit: Beyond Human?
Regarding IT, I think the reasoning for them being against AI as a whole is the fact that they are being employed at this point to train AI so that it can replace them and put them out of work.
I just happened to watch a video of the Nvidia CEO stating that if an employee that they paid $500,000 annually did not use $250,000 worth of tokens in a year, that he would be alarmed and would feel that person didn't belong to be employed in that position. So when you look at it in that regard that these employees are being pushed incredibly hard to use AI in ways it doesn't benefit them and doesn't make sense in their job so that it can learn at a faster rate and put them out of work, I can completely see why the sector as a whole isn't hot to use it.
That's an excellent point that I hadn't considered before. I suppose since AI could affect the personal well being of a person, especially IT workers, it leads to complete disdain on the technology.