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0 pointsmunificent14d ago0 comments

> The implicit unfounded assumption is whether that's actually worth more than a well written orderly response.

It's not implicit or unfounded. The parent comment is explicitly saying that's what they prefer. And, as an actual human, their preference is intrinsically valid for them.

If I like my kid's crappy cooking over a Michelin-star meal made by a robot... then I get to like my kid's crappy cooking more. I have that right. There is no social consensus when it comes to what I want. You can't argue whether my preference is correct or not, it's my preference.

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wvenable14d ago

As a software developer and human being, I know people often say they prefer one thing while actually preferring something else. That's human nature.

People have strong feelings about AI in general and that can definitely cloud what they will say about it. Everybody hates AI but, like CGI in movies, they only likely hate the AI or CGI that they notice.

munificentOP14d ago

Believing that, say, the use of AI will primarily enrich billionaires that are already doing societal harm is not clouding one's view of AI. It is one's view of AI.

To say otherwise is to say that worrying about lung cancer is clouding one's view of smoking.

> they only likely hate the AI or CGI that they notice.

No, this is simply not true at all. I dislike use of AI even more when I don't notice it. My goal getting on the Internet is to connect with other actual people and their creativity. I want actual people to be more connected to each other, and AI makes that worse, especially when it's good enough that people don't even realize their are being intermediated by corporations pumping out simulated humanity.

wvenable13d ago

> Believing that, say, the use of AI will primarily enrich billionaires that are already doing societal harm is not clouding one's view of AI. It is one's view of AI.

That's fine. Nobody is forcing you to use AI. I dislike it when people force their ideas onto others.

> My goal getting on the Internet is to connect with other actual people and their creativity.

It's too bad your goal doesn't include interacting with people who don't speak your language and use AI to translate for them. Or people who struggle with writing in general. I don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be.

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