I am perfectly capable of failing a task by myself.

• because it’s “THE NEXT BIG THING TM”, like the metaverse, 8k tvs, cryptocoins, etc, thus being sold as the be-all end-all savior of humanity;
• because many, many, many economy related reasons (nvidia, circular bubble, stupid money being thrown around nonstop, environment, etc)
• because some people are 100% trusting the output, even when it’s easily unproven bullshit or it looks/works like shit
• it’s a culmination of years and years of every internet user’s unaware or half-aware work, and now we’re supposed to be fawning over that shit
• because it’s empowering bullshitters and scammers: it’s never been easier to create pieces of shit in the hopes of earning money out of it - websites, text, code, music, drawings, videos.
• adding to the above, it’s making a bad problem exponentially worse, that of the “dead internet theory”. By 2021, before any publicly available “AI”, SEO shit sites and videos were already making life awful for anyone that wanted to find something. Nowadays, I would wager that over half of google’s top 100 sites of any given search are llm generated, 40% using old style SEO shenanigans that always manage to get the exact search term in its body.

Its a soulless human knowledge regurgitation machine.

Is all that can be stolen from our achievements as a race, sintetized, controled and biased.

Its convience will generete a dimishment in human minds in the long run.

Frank Herbert got it right, AI is posed to neuter us as a dominant race.

I hate it because I won’t be able to escape from it. It will permeate everything and destroy whatever bit of functional society we have left. Forget about the internet becoming nothing but AI bots talking to each other, eventually most IRL interactions will be diverted to AI or have to be screened through AI. You already can’t talk to a human at any online businesses, and even companies that have phone numbers route you through endless menus–those will all become AI bots too, and repeating “representative” into the phone will do you no longer do any good.

Even doctors are already using it now, to shave a few more minutes off each appointment, by getting an AI summary of the patient’s records (probably full of wrong info) so they don’t have to bother to read the chart. Then they record the visit and get an AI summary of it (again likely full of errors), so they don’t have to write anything either. That is already happening now. It’s bad enough now when you can usually only get in to see the nurse practitioner instead of the doctor (while paying the same fee as when you do see the doctor), it won’t be long before we’ll be limited to chatting with an “AI practitioner” (and still paying the same rate).

People use it to fabricate evidence convincingly.

People use it to pad content that could have been brief.

Unimaginative people flood content streams with low quality stuff making it even harder to find good content.

We are throwing every technical and financial resource we can. Starving other needs.

Douches wont shut up about it.

The creative slop will be a persistent plague, though some of the other stuff will become more tolerable when the bubble pops.

As a philosophical stance, I feel humans should use tools, not the other way around. AI is a tool that uses those who attempt to use it.

AI “art” as most people understand it perverts the natural relationship between artist and medium. It inverts it, using the human to give it the one thing it cannot generate, an idea, then produces an approximation of “art”. A satisfying result with an AI generated image demonstrates a lack of vision on the part the of the user, they were likely never really clear on what they wanted, not the power of the generative model.

Asking AI for answers or to give an overview of a subject seems harmless, but it can’t be trusted to understand the unique context and needs of each user or to highlight what details are truly pertinent in that place or time. Again, it inverts the relationship between human and information, even if what has been generated is factually correct. It over-simplifies relationships and concepts in ways that are dangerous when nuance has been systematically stripped from public discourse for the last few decades. We need information to decide how to act in a given context, AI seems to attempt to change our understanding of that context to match the information it provides.

It’s necessary to accept that you don’t have complete control over the world around around you, but that doesn’t mean we should accept a lack of control over our own understanding of that world.

There is such an issue of people using it in place of doing basic critical thinking or for tasks that they should be able to easily just do and this leads to the atrophying of their skills. People who use it a lot have been shown to grow dependent on it and lose their ability to do tasks they used to be able to do without AI and it just really concerns me. No one should be that reliant on a tool that frequently gives incorrect information, discourages its users from thinking about the world around them less, and puts more control into the hands of tech billionaires. It makes me worried for society going forward.

Morons flocking to it and becoming even better, faster morons in the process. It makes them feel empowered.

It is designed to replace our workforce and fill the pockets of its owners. I have no issue with it replacing me in the dull parts of my job, but I don’t want to be left out of the gains. It’s just the next stage of automation, taking more jobs, making more of us obsolete for the benefit of the few who sit on the banquet and eat what we have been robbed of.

Go ahead, take my job, but give me the fruit of your labor, socialize it, and I’m fine with at least the parts that make sense. Fuck off with the porn bullshit though.

because it’s shoved in my face over and over again

because shitty tools marketed as AI powered are replacing the tools that used to exist and did a better job

because the current state of it is clearly bad for sustainability

because it’s not even fucking AI

It drives up the price of consumer electronics due to AI firms purchasing RAM, Storage, and GPUs.

It uses up potable water that we need for drinking, agriculture, and other vital uses

It’s not even reliable for the costs that it has

If it were reliable, it’d threaten the livelihood of millions.

I like the AI that existed prior to the LLM and genAI slop fest. AI used to mean the tools that were used to discover planets, a lot of complex matching systems, and even tools for making music! Pattern matching using neural networks and other methids is awesome and has a huge number of positive uses.

So when I say I hate AI I am referring to those for profit companies who jam this slop into everything, increase pollution, give companies reasons to fire everyone, and drive up prices by buying up all the hardware even harder than scalpers ever did. The companies that have coopted the term AI are who I am referring to.

They are speed running culture into a shithole while bending us over and telling us to thank them for it. No, I do not want a fucking summary of a three word text message. No, I don’t want a summary of what I am reading. No, I don’t want someone else to read your inaccurate summary of the email I wrote. No, I don’t want your made up bullshit spewed to people I know so that I have to constantly ask where they got some fabricated information and explain that your shit shoved into everything is not reliable. No, putting a fucking warning to double check results is not a solution, especially when you drown out the right information.

AI was better back before fascists decided to use it to try and take over the world.

Apart from the obvious environmental issues, I hate that “AI” promotes lazyness.

I work as a software developer and over the last months, I slipped into a habit of letting ChatGPT write more and more code for me. It’s just so easy to do! Write a function here, do some documentation there, do all of the boilerplate for me, set up some pre-commit hooks, …

Two weeks ago I deleted my OpenAI account and forced myself to write all code without LLMs, just as I did before. Because there is one very real problem of excessive AI useage in software development: Skill atrophy.

I was actively losing knowledge. Sometimes I had to look up the easiest things (like builtin Javascript functions) I was definitely able to work with off the top of my head just a year ago. I turned away from being an actual developer to someone chatting with a machine. I slowly lost the fun in coding, because I outsourced the problem solving aspects that gave me a dopamine boost to the AI. I basically became a glorified copypaster.

This is what all of those big AI companies want. They want people being dependent on their stupid little chatbots, just so they can suck a monthly subscription out of you. That really doesn’t sit right with me - I always wrote code to pay my bills and paying someone else to write that code for me feels disingenuous, in a way. I would probably be more open about AI and use it more if I had the option to host it locally. But now they’re hoarding all of the memory, CPU’s and other technology that would enable me to do so and drive their prices into unobtanium territory, and they can all get fucked for this.

I don’t want to be a “prompt engineer” and outsource my brain into an LLM. Thank god my employer doesn’t force me to use any AI at all and I don’t have to be fast, I just have to be fast enough and produce quality code. And I can do this all by myself, I always could.

I do feel like the last man standing, sometimes. Almost all of my colleagues and friends (who are also developers) have drank the AI-koolaid by now and I get so many messages like “We have Windsurf at our company now, you must use it or you’ll be left behind!”. It’s so hard to push back and resist this hype cycle, especially for students and junior developers, because they don’t have much experience and can be so easily exploited by their employers and AI techbros…

So that’s (mostly) what I hate. A good technology that’s being misused by a capitalistic system. Again.

I hate the current term, because it is plainly technically wrong and abused to push for less regulation and abolishment of environmental concern.

It angers me that there is so much potential to make our lives genuinely easier and we focus it on writing bad articles and making naked pictures.

*Edited spelling because I’m having issues today apparently.