Asklemmy

A few things:

• It's baked into everything whether we like it or not. I'm so tired of that damn star emoji everywhere, especially when it replaces basic search functionality we already had (looking at you, Amazon)

• It's dependent on other people's work (LOTS of it) which is usually acquired through sketchy means - all that to compete with those original creators

• The slop. Oh, the slop. Slop that's often used as SEO fluff. So you have one bot working to please another. Humans are an afterthought

• I'm legitimately afraid that it'll take away from our understanding of things and critical thinking by relying on it too much. On that same token, once we rely on it and it gets manipulated, so do we.

• It uses a ton of energy to make it happen

Those are just the things I could think of offhand before going to bed. I'm sure there's more.

You hit the nail on the head:

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely anti "AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap". If that's what being Anti AI is.....to that I say Amen.

Most cases in consumer ai, it's data harvesting gone haywire and it's not being implemented to benefit society.

From what I see, very few people are stupid enough to blanket hate it, but it is overhyped and being used maliciously.

When you say it's remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness, what do you mean?

lol, you're getting downvoted just for asking, that should sum up the whole argument.

The hate is real here, and IMO most of it is unjustified. There are a few good points that are made:

• Training data was not ethically sourced. Can't get around that, it just wasn't. It was legal-ish, but it wasn't moral. Image generators especially, the art was not willingly given - but IMO if you aren't taking work out of their hands I don't have a major issue with it.
• Same as your issue, AI is being shoved everywhere embodying the "If you're a hammer everything is a nail".
• Privacy concerns as you've talked about, and security.

That being said, I don't have any issues with using it at home, local LLMs, and I'll even say I use it daily to help with coding. I've been coding for 20 years and I have to admit it does help, if you know when to use it. It has sped me up considerably.