Kills the planet

Steals from artists

Widens inequality

Puts people out of work

Reinforces prejudices

Makes us stupid

Makes everything generic

Blows up the economy

Supports oligarchs

Can't be trusted, hallucinates and lies

Overhyped & overpromised

Can't generate outside of its training data

Is creating obscene surveillance state

Used in weapons to kill

Made computer components expensive

Ruined the internet with slop

Replaces human interaction

Just annoying

In my experience, people who use LLMs as educational tools... don't actually learn very well. They think they are, but they don't retain the knowledge nor do they seem able to infer from or apply the knowledge very well. There are even some early studies that are showing that using LLMs decreases cognitive ability, and considering how many kids and young people are using it to get their way though school and even higher education... I think we're using AI to raise a generation of stunted minds. That's going to be a bigger issue as time goes on and with the state of the world and who owns the LLMs... it looks like a grim, sad future thanks to this tech.

I loathe AI for multiple, personal reasons;

1. When I need to contact customer support of some sort, there is an AI bot that is no use and there are no real humans, because the AI is cheaper. I won't get the help I need or it's too difficult to reach.

2. My mother language is a bit more difficult one and many stores (especially online) are starting to translate everything with AI and that makes the text absolutely incomprehensible. Hard or even impossible to understand even the basic descriptions or the manuals.

3. Browsers have those forced AI-summaries when you try to look for something and those are often both wrong and impossible to turn off. (Or if it's possible to turn off, they keep turning back on.)

4. People I know are literally believing everything from those summaries and such and are very confidently wrong/misunderstanding whatever basic thing. It's very annoying. ("Let's ask STSÄTKEEPEETEE!")

5. Being parasocial online is becoming frustrating as I have been accused of being an AI bot on multiple occasions just because of the way I write in English. Knowing even basic grammar makes you a bot these days.

Mostly anti-intellectualism and ego, as far as I can tell. Also, conflating someone's business practices with a technology.

Imagine a shitty robot was just made available for free.

The shitty robot replaces you at work. It performs way faster with worse results, but the company hires a robot "expert" that fixes the results just enough that the product appears to be working. (Its not). You are now starving.

The shitty robot tells your kids that porn is a viable career path. And that they should kill themselves.

The shitty robot starts showing up everywhere, in advertising, TV shows, customer support lines, schools.

The shitty robot makes shitty art really fast, which people can sell or use how they want. Artists are now starving.

Imagine the shitty robot is now interviewing you for your next job.

Reading through this thread and your responses gives the strong impression that you just want to argue while at the same time aren't very well informed on the matter. Where you do respond its mostly whataboutism rather than actually addressing the comment you are responding to.

Your post asks "Why do people hate AI?" and then goes on to validates many of the commonly heard reasons people have for hating AI. You end with a suggestion that if we could develop AI into something else in the future, it might be good.

So it seems you already understand why people hate AI and are promoting an agenda rather than asking a genuine question.

Chatgpt, list all instances where OP is trying to subvert people's points with logical fallacies, & burn a couple hundred extra Wh while you're at it, thanks. I'm sure it'd take less energy for me to do it, but nah

This book is probably more worth ur time than this post: https://ia801605.us.archive.org/29/items/aiboba/aiboba.pdf It's An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi

It's burning the environment down, destroying the shambles of the global economy, and being constantly shoved down everyone's throats even though it's only impressive to people who don't understand it

Judging by the comments, I would say that most Lemmy users are aware of the downsides of LLMs. The average GPT user probably hasn't heard of half the points mentioned in these comments.
Judging by the downvotes, I would say that many Lemmy users are also very passionate about it. The average GPT user might think of LLMs like any other tool.

Unfortunately, I get the feeling that Lemmy isn't a suitable place for having a serious conversation about AI in general (not just LLMs). I would love to have that conversation, but this just isn't the place for it, as you can see. The people here seem to be too focused on LLMs, how they're developed and how they're forcibly implemented in places where they provide zero value etc. AI in general is such a broad category, and this kind of biased conversation misses 90% of it.

When you say AI, people hear LLM, and that's a genuine problem. When people say they hate AI, they probably aren't thinking of things like image search, optical character recognition, automatic categorization of the events of your bank account, signal processing in audio and video, image upscaling, frame generation, design of 3D structures, route planning etc. There's so much you can do with AI, but Lemmy users rarely mention those.

Everything you said is why people hate it, and that hate is justified.