Move over gamers, AI shills are the most discriminated group now!

Let's cook the fucking planet so we can generate stupid images we're too lazy to photoshop! What's not to like? More fossil fueled plagiarized bullshit so I don't have to think please!

Edit: Looks like I struck a nerve with some people who are, similarly to "AI", confidently incorrect about a few things. I'm not even saying LLM can't be used for good, it has, but I am saying that it is being used for a lot of bad shit and it's being powered by a lot of bad shit on top of that.

Think about that before you start hyping "AI" and attacking anyone who criticizes it because there's some valid criticisms that are very dangerous to ignore.

It's wild that OP would think these two things are equivalent.

Pronouns are a thing that harms nobody, and the people frothing at the mouth are going out of their way to hurt people who did nothing wrong.

AI (in its most common meaning at this time in pop culture) at the minimum is wasting electricity (and it's associated climate impact), and has the potential to totally decimate the job market and usher in an era of inequality that we haven't seen for hundreds of years, while simultaneously stealing from artists. The people frothing at the mouth aren't hurting anyone.

To use a bit of hyperbole, it's kinda like if you said:

Some of y'all see "white power" and freak out without processing anything that's being said, like a conservative who sees a mixed race couple.

Like pretty clearly people have a good reason for freaking out when they see that, and the other side of the equation are just bad people.

ITT: exactly what the tweet was about. (Edit: It was a tumblr post.)

Y'all just saw "AI" and started frothing at the mouth about LLMs when, in the context of the tweet, it might just as well have referred to path finding AI in a video game.

AI Slop Eaters need to know their bullshit is unacceptable, Fuck AI.

I will stop freaking out when they will stop trying to shove it down my throat all the time

I will stop freaking out when naive techbro men stop the ecological mass murder and environmental destruction that they supposedly NEED to do to sustain their shitty knockoff of a religion/cult.

If I'm seeing the word "AI" outside of academic research or shitposting, it's almost certainly coming from a Techbro or techbro simp.

Pretty insulting comparison, tbh.

Pronouns: Expanding language to communicate the humanity of other people.

AI: Distilling language to package human communication as a sellable product.

It has been my experience that things go the other way around. Usually people read the text (or programming script), see that it's nonsense and ask, "Is this fucking AI? Cause I really hope no one is actually this stupid."

And then they get annoyed that someone is cooking the planet using AI instead of their brain.

i saw someone on masto mad about the new background removal thing added to kdenlive

i despise llms and image models for quite a number of reasons but just aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Branding something as “AI” just tells me that there probably wasn’t anybody critically examining the output to assess that it wasn’t 100% BS. If you’re using computer technology to scan bodies for possible early cancer symptoms, for example, then you should have a professional look over the computer’s results and you shouldn’t use the marketing terms that are used for churning out brainless media content.

I have no idea what point you’re trying to get across but I just got back from shopping for a laptop for my college kid and pretty much all of them had a slop button