Not against AI. I use it quite a lot. I also find amusement when it tells me things that are just wrong in a very sure way. So never fully trust AI. If you accept that then AI can be quite useful.

I think Lemmy in general is very against AI

I agree, although for a counter-case, db0 has involvement in community-driven image generation (Horde, some communities they host and banners they use).

My view isn't as blanket as pro- or anti- "AI" (and I add quotes because I see that as a science-fiction term adapted into a marketing fantasy).

These technologies are powerful and there are legitimate, productive, pro-social uses of them (an obvious example is assisting in medical diagnosis). They are not inherently incompatible with social values, environmental progress, and the other problems associated with it - these technologies are tools powered by electricity and materials. But the way they are currently implemented, the economic concerns around marketing them, and the lack of broad education around them, are very very dangerous.

• The way regular people misunderstand and misuse the technology has already resulted in direct deaths, all kinds of mismanagement and mass sacking of workers. Mistrusting technology is no new issue, see ELIZA in the '60s for example, but this is so much more accessible, more misrepresented due to marketing campaigns and social media, and more powerful. Furthermore, a huge proportion of people don't have the media literacy to instinctively doubt its output - and this was already a big enough issue with news media.

• Processing currently is largely done using non-renewable energy sources in large centralized data centers (consuming water, creating noise pollution, etc.) which has serious global and local environment issues.

• Most of our exposure to this technology as regular citizens is wasteful or actively harmful, such as propaganda/forgery, vapid industrialization of artistic aesthetics, unsolicited sexualization, scams and fraud attacks, automated bots, advertising and other 'slop', along with misguided attempts to eliminate workers from jobs which cannot be adequately delegated to these tools.

I think you'll find that the gripe is more about it being implemented badly, and in a way that's harmful on multiple levels rather than the technology itself.

It's the year 2026. All of Lemmy has been conquered by AI haters.

All of Lemmy? No. A small instance resists: Lemmygrad.

Oh yeah, Lemmy is overwhelmingly against AI in any capacity. I'm one of the few that finds it useful for a handful of things and generally defend that use. That being said, it's definitely important to understand that "hallucinations" are a thing (though not nearly as prevalent as those here would claim), it's a major problem for the arts industry at large, it's objectively making people dumber (great studies on students who over rely on it), and there are terrible climate implications.

It's just a tool, and like any other tool there are pros and cons, and it should be used responsibly. But yeah, Lemmy hates the shit out of anything AI

I’ll explain it in away that would make sense to you. It’s a vibe.