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    Now see, I like the idea of AI.

    What I don’t like are the implications, and the current reality of AI.

    I see businesses embracing AI without fully understanding the limits. Stopping the hiring juniors developers, often firing large numbers of seniors because they think AI, a group of cheap post grad vibe programmers and a handful of seasoned seniors will equal the workforce they got rid of when AI, while very good is not ready to sustain this. It is destroying the career progression for the industry and even if/when they realise it was a mistake, it might already have devastated the industry by then.

    I see the large tech companies tearing through the web illegally sucking up anything they can access to pull into their ever more costly models with zero regard to the effects on the economy, the cost to the servers they are hitting, or the environment from the huge power draw creating these models requires.

    It’s a nice idea, but private business cannot be trusted to do this right, we’re seeing how to do it wrong, live before our eyes.

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    Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of LLM and Ai slop?

    Ai is literally making people dumber:

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/

    They are a massive privacy risk:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s

    https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-data-about-you-from-all-your-devices-heres-how-to-be-aware-of-what-youre-revealing-251693

    Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:

    https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

    And they are a massive environmental disaster:

    https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/

    Stop being a corporate apologist and stop wreaking the environment with this shit technology.

    Edit: thank you to every Ai apologist outing themselves in the comments. Thank you for making blocking you easy.

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      Ai is literally making people dumber:

      And books destroyed everyone’s memory. People used to have fantastic memories.

      They are a massive privacy risk:

      No different than the rest of cloud tech. Run your AI local like your other self hosting.

      Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:

      Hitler used radio to push fascism into every home. It’s not the medium, it’s the message.

      And they are a massive environmental disaster:

      AI uses a GPU just like gaming uses a GPU. Building a new AI model uses the same energy that Rockstar spent developing GTA5. But it’s easier to point at a centralized data center polluting the environment than thousands of game developers spread across multiple offices creating even more pollution.

      Stop being a corporate apologist

      Run your own AI! Complaining about “corporate AI” is like complaining about corporate email. Host it yourself.

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        Run your own AI!

        Oh sure, let me just pull a couple billion out of the couch cushions to spin up a data center in the middle of the desert.

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          Oh sure, let me just pull a couple billion out of the couch cushions to spin up a data center in the middle of the desert.

          From my, very much not in a data center, desktop PC:

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      Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of LLM and Ai slop?

      With the number of times that refrain is regurgitated here ad nauseum, need is an odd way to put it. Sick of it might fit sentiments better. Done with this & not giving a shit is another.

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          OK, but you’re just making yourselves lolcows at this point where you announce these easy-to-push buttons & people derive joy from pushing them. Imitating AI just to troll is a thing now.

          So…that’s a victory?

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            ah yes, the people doing what they can to go against a thing they think is bad, they are the stupid dumb people

            not the ones going out of their way to make fun of them and be irreverent for no reason other than “haha this person has sincere beliefs, what a moron!”

            think about what your point is, how are your posts doing any sort of good?

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              “haha this person has sincere beliefs, what a moron!”

              It’s more like

              this person is making us sicker of them than the thing they’re telling us to be sick of, and we were already sick of that!

              Getting sanctimonious & overbearing with people who don’t even disagree with you isn’t effective advocacy. We largely avoid AI already, and a tedious circlejerk isn’t getting us anywhere or adding anything that isn’t frequently stated.

              By drawing more ire toward them than things we should be sick of, circlejerks are unjust & deserve all the derision they can get until balance is restored.

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      If you ever take a flight for holiday, or even drive long distance and cry about AI being bad for the environment then you’re a hypocrite.

      Same goes for if you eat beef, or having a really powerful gaming rig that you use a lot.

      There are plenty of valid reasons AI is bad, but the argument for the environment seems weak, and most people using it are probably hypocrites. It’s barely a drop in the bucket compared to other things

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      Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:

      Everything can be used for that. If anything, I believe AI models are too restricted and tend not to argue on controversial subjects, which prevents you from learning anything. Censorship sucks