They regard themselves thought leaders. They are confused why their thoughts aren't being followed en masse.

EDIT: just explaining their logic as I suspect it, not condoning anything here :)

No, this isn't an accident. It's a PR ploy, and done entirely on purpose. The idea is to push the people who aren't critical towards AI to their side. By being confused and not understanding why people are so mad at these innocent little men just doing their best to bring something good to humanity, they're humanising themselves. Most anyone can relate to fears of having their hard work rejected by others, and they're playing on that.

I wish people would stop platforming this nonsense.

Why would it be? None of the critics are his customers. He sells hardware to Altman, Nadella and the other Koolaid drinkers that run the slop infrastructure.

The handful of people that privately buy NVIDIAs incredibly overpriced GPUs for their private gaming PCs aren't the focus anymore.

When your job is to play golf and post your Philosophy 101-level "deep thoughts" on Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing that LLMs can do real work.

I bet AI would do a better job.

You know, in my days when I learned economics I was taught to come up with a new plan if the business doesn't work and the customer does not buy/pay. Else I have failed.

And not whine about things hurting...

They're fueled by hopium and shit out false dreams. Basically they're the Boiler Room or pinksheet Wolf of Wall Street, trying to trick as many investors as they can to swallow their shill.

Although some may actually believe their own hype in a deeply egotistical way, like Jared Leto's character in the Blade Runner sequel.

You know what's extremely hurtful??

Get something that does not work being forced down your throat.

I hope they're fucking hurt.

Fuck the people who peddle this shit in such an evil way. They want to replace us and pocket the profits.

Why the fuck should we care about their 'feelings' when their rapist mentality fucks up the world. Lie, steal, cheat for a solution in search of a problem so they can make money by making people lose money and become unemployed.

But but don't you understand, AI will allow them to reduce spending, if you only look at wages paid to humans and ignore the material costs of all the infrastructure and propaganda about how great it is

...in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life...

Ssshhhiiiiiiiiiiii, even with employment you can't pay for basic necessities. Shit's so fucked!

More like "We are throwing cartloads of money at technology at the expense of actually meaningful improvements. Oh, and shedding jobs as well. Gotta make the lines go up. Oh, and we don't care at all for the environment, and this technology just so happens to be terrible af towards it. Oh, and don't expect getting a new ram stick in the next 2 years at the very least"

Spot on, Dude over a 100 upvotes, I think this is the most upvoted comment I’ve ever seen on Lemmy, ha.

Jensen can suck my Huang

If I was in charge of coming up with ironic punishments, I would lock him in a data center with the cooling turned off. Let's see if he or his chips give out first.

In June 2008 SP500 was 1361 points before it dropped to 700 points in February 2009 so 48%. Now SP500 is 6943 points if it drops by 48% that be 3610 points. It's only drop to state from October 2022. I don't think it would change much. We need to go deeper.

Don't forget the big one. These massive data centers only have 1 real use case. SURVEILLANCE.

You could say the same about the Internet for nearly all those points.

Don't forget that the Internet is currently ruined by AI-slop that is continuously flooding once interesting human-created content. This is probably my biggest gripe of AI. I've significantly reduced my screen-time, basically stopped coding in my free-time because of this sloppy mess that we call Internet right now...

Nah I'd still hate AI because it's trash

There was absolutely no reason for AI companies to go batshit crazy. This was pure supply shock. Each level assumed 10x exponential growth. A sane 2x or 4x would have been manageable for all suppliers

It doesn't even generate wealth, either. It just denies money to labor and that's it.

Key difference, what is called AI in science fiction isn’t the same as the AI we see today. These companies just adopted the term AI from science fiction as a marketing strategy. Not because it’s actually representative.

Some people are now having to clarify AGI, rather than just AI, because the term has got so diluted.

This would be the first good reason I've learned to use so-called AI for everything.

Calculating and immoral

Yes, this I feel is the crux of the situation. The industry is trying to hammer a probabilistic solution into deterministic holes. I mean, it’s no wonder people keep fucking up their shit with openclaw. If have an agent, it should do exactly what I tell it.

Talking to AI is sort of like talking to a neurotypical person, in that they make up half of what they think I said.

If you talk to AI and feel like you're going insane...that's what talking to you without understanding your facial expressions is like. Half of what people say has nothing to do with what I said, and you expect me to just fill in the blanks with your eyebrow movements or something.

Edit: Non-autistic people communicate entirely through inference and body gestures. When I say one thing, non-autistic people think I'm secretly saying some other thing that they imagined. That's sort of how AI is, it will take a small comment and blow it our of proportion or infer meaning that isn't there. That's what talking to most of you is like.

I’m reminded of flight school. To finally fly solo, it’s not enough for a student pilot to fly well and know the rules. My instructors make it clear - it’s the consistency that’s important. Getting into a rhythm and consistently executing maneuvers in the same way every time is key.

It’s only a matter of time until someone attempts to shove AI into airplanes. If it can’t replicate the same results every time, that’s a massive problem.

I think what's worse is the fact that it's destroyed our trust in one another, causing us to believe things to be AI even if they are not. I ran the article's text through several AI detection services, and while not entirely reliable, they all say it's 100% human written.

I think the world is ready for me to start my blogging again. Complete stream of consciousness garbage no AI could replicate 🤣🤣🤣

AI: "Hating AI? So hot right now! Brb – writing an article."

Even though AI is an ideal replacement for manual labour, if workers are out of a job thus broken, I can't see how this would be an advancement of the society. Products don't matter. Distribution of products does.

I hate both.

I mean. There would be no salesman if the snake oil didn’t exist.

Also snake oil refers to a fake product. Why would you “not hate” the fake product? At its foundation the sole purpose of the existence of snake oil is to be disingenuous and scam customers.

Hate the game not the player.

Ok, but you should hate it though. AI, as implemented by capitalism, is downright detrimental in so so so many ways. Even if we set aside the huge environmental costs, energy and water price hikes in communities near data centers, loss of jobs due to AI, theft of IP, and sloppification of the internet, it is also doing things like convincing my friend with bipolar that they should attempt suicide.

AI is being used to generate videos of minorities breaking laws and rioting. That is its purpose

Me either, well knowingly and willingly outside it appearing in searches.

Are we rare?

they just have to lay enough people off, to see thier profits rise.

Yeah, I feel you.

It makes me crave analysis like Cory Doctorow often does when covering this stuff on his blog. Fuck performing some misplaced notion of "neutral reporting" — the matter at hand is far from neutral, so let's be honest and call these abominable turd crumpets out for what they are

I'm in a similar boat, my company isn't pushing it too hard but they are definitely on the AI train and I truly haven't found a great use for it yet. Everything it puts out still has to be double checked so it seems like if I'm doing the work anyways I might as well just do it right the first time.

Yeah, they didn't really cite anything showing a deep hatred for AI like you see here on lemmy, alls they gave was:

As one Pew Research survey from 2025 found, about 60 percent of respondents said they’d like “more control” over how AI is used in their lives, while only 17 percent are “comfortable” with AI remaining in the hands of a few tech billionaires.

Which yeah, most people want more control over how they use anything, that doesn't mean they hate the thing. Same with anything "remaining in the hands of a few billionaires" you could say that about nearly any industry under capitalism, doesn't mean they hate that industry, it may mean they hate capitalism though...

I think the sentiment is there, especially about other people's use of AI. So many video feeds are stuffed with stupid BS that is AI generated. So many articles that were annoyingly pointlessly verbose are now even worse and more prolific with LLM word generations.

Also, generally douchey tech bros that don't need AI to be reviled double down and play the victim complaining how hurtful it is that people have only made them many billions of dollars. The face of AI advocacy is generally just the most unlikeable, most entitled folks.

All while declaring stuff like 'this year all white collar jobs will be gone thanks to AI', which is how half the population currently makes their living, with rarely a word about how to make those affected have a better outcome, with the closest being that those white collar workers just need to go do some manual labor instead. Further if you work for a larger company, they have likely already declared some intent to draw down your specific workforce thanks to AI, because investors absolutely demand that right now, and if they say the words then they must follow it with action relatively soon unless the bubble pops.

Rural communities also getting big 'screw yous' as tech companies come in and with the help of local leaders just bulldoze a communities concerns and put electrical and water strain on a small community with no jobs and a blight of some big ugly buildings to show for it, likely with a hit to local air quality owing to gas generators.

So yes, I think there's a lot of very real negative sentiment and for very good reasons.

I really doubt [...] as these articles getting spammed makes it seem.

I mean... have you tried asking around? You can ask family and friends, sure, but that's biased. You can also ask strangers in the street, shops, etc. It's awkward but it's more representative. Sure there is again a bias based on where you live but if you don't trust media (which is fair, even though they do cite a Pew Research survey) nothing is preventing you from conducting your own survey.

FWIW I did and I won't share my outcome (as it might bias your answer or process to possibly replicate, more importantly, it's not the point) and it lead to interesting discussions. I try to do that from time to time about other topics too.

Just owning a house in some areas will give you that net worth. It’s not like you don’t have to work full time and you’re just jet-setting around the world all day.

It’s basically what we used to call “middle class.” Not even upper middle class.

AI would be fantastic if we used it to remove the menial, backbreaking jobs that destroy people. Instead, they’re trying to remove the artists, writers, musicians, editors, etc.

LOL you shouldn't speak for everyone using 'we' is a bit much, as I hate AI and what it represents. I would love it to see the whole AI thing fail so hard, that it goes back to be what all the science fiction stories warned us about. The torment nexus shouldn't be given an quasi-existence in this world. Currently there is no AI in this world, there are only gassed up LLMs that the techbros misrepresented the capabilities of and dubiously called "AI" to improve their odds of fooling the masses.