As an old person I can also say that old people don’t trust AI, or the leaders of those companies, or the current administration…
It’s almost like it doesn’t matter what plebs think and we’ve known this for a long time.
All my members hate fucking AI and majority of them are over 60. Hell one had me take his payment because he flat out wasn’t going let a clanker take it. Dont trust the automated system rather talk to a human.
I don’t know man, I’m a fairly old person and I’m constantly surrounded by people who seem unable to think without it.
I’m so blackpilled on the average person. These stats mean nothing because the average person not trusting a tech company does absolutely nothing to push them away from it. 80% distrust AI but 50% use it and the stat is growing.
Indeed. The average person seems to need instagram, whatsapp and xitter to fill their meaningless little isolated lives with distractions to feel… something. However on a more positive note, once people get suspicious about AI slop they tend to notice the slop patterns more easily, which is a good development. It’s something that can’t be unseen.
Nah, why would anyone love AI when we can just–
Let’s all love Lain!
Present day, present time… Hahaha
And these AI companies don’t seem to understand…
… ((They were never honest, can’t make a lyric)
And all those fears they hold so dear
Will turn to reality in their stocks
And you know what GPT says might hurt you
And you know data centers destroy so much
And generated art… don’t even feel a thing
I don’t just think AI should be regulated, I think everyone at the hyperscaler companies should be criminally indicted. Every employee at OpenAI and Anthropic working on AI development should be indicted on 8 million counts of child endangerment.
The relevant statute is California 273a.
It is a crime in the state of California to allow a child to be placed in a position where great harm could come to them. For example, people have been indicted under this statute because they had drugs in the same house as young children. Even if no children are actually hurt, simply putting them in a situation where harm is likely is the crime.
It would normally be quite difficult to prove that the actions of OpenAI and others are endangering children. But the very words of these companies would be the first exhibit of the prosecution. They’ve openly confessed to their crimes! These very same companies and their leaders have repeatedly said that they’re building machines that they themselves believe have a reasonable chance of destroying humanity. And the children of California are a subset of humanity.
Whether their claims are realistic or not, I cannot say. But I simply believe that it is legal to build a machine that you yourself believe could destroy the world. We’re so glazed over by the novelty of AI that we forget to treat it like any other threat. In most places it is a crime to perform some action that you believe has a realistic chance of hurting people, even if you have no intention or desire to hurt people.
Well, according to OpenAI, the machines they are building represent a very real risk to the life and safety of every child in the State of California. I see no reason that they shouldn’t be charged with millions of counts of child endangerment. According to their own words, they are literally putting the lives of children at risk. That is a crime. That is not legal. And we should stop pretending it is.
If this argument worked fossil fuel companies wouldn’t exist
anyone can inform the authorities, and should they continue to ignore then that is clear next goal of the campaign -> removal of corrupt officials that dont care about the law.
I could imagine they increasingly don’t trust politicians either.
It’s almost as if there is a pattern there isn’t it?
Maybe we are being filled with more bullshit all around than we have ever been!The same poll showed:
According to the CNBC Generation Lab poll, which received responses from 1,088 people earlier this month, 46% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 now hold either a “favorable” or a “very favorable” view of democratic socialism. An additional 23% held “somewhat unfavorable” or “very unfavorable” opinions, according to the poll, which had a margin of error of 2.97 percentage points.
and
Almost half of respondents, 45%, said they believe AI will have a negative impact on their careers, while 10% believe it will help them with their careers. An additional 40% said they believe “the federal government” must set rules for AI, while 36% said they believe “an independent expert body” should set the rules of the game. Just 8% said they think AI “shouldn’t be regulated.” A majority, 60%, believe data center construction “must be slowed,” while 15% favor “speeding it up.”
While they may or may not distrust current politicians, it does not appear that they’re significantly distrustful of politicians in general.
Maybe that’s precisely the goal… increase distrust in Politicians so that people start voting for the extreme right who then get rid of the last resemblance of democracy.
Politicians doing nothing for the people since a good 50 years may have something to do with the rise of the extreme right too.
Sadly yes.
Maybe the kids are gonna be alright, after all.
true but kids should also trust AI to be AI
then it becomes a useful tool
AI is just one of several serious existential threats the kids will have to deal with. They’re far from alright.
“The kids are alright” does not mean that the world where the kids live is alright, it means that the kids are alright. 😅
To me it means: the kids are healthy and secure, and coping with the world with a reasonable prospect of a good future. But I agree that it’s a good thing that they aren’t entirely duped by the abusers of AI, if that’s what you mean.
We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.
At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species’ DNA.
The Epstein class is their biggest threat by far. AI and what they do on private islands are just two of many reasons to get rid of billionaires.
I agree. I really don’t understand why society tolerates, let alone promotes and idolizes, billionaires, while median net worth remains below $200,000, and probably much lower in most of the rest of the world. I don’t think everyone should be forced to be exactly equal but the current disparity between median and Elon is more than 6 orders of magnitude, depending on the day of the week, and even to your average barely a billionaire it is more than 3 orders of magnitude. It’s excessive, and looking at how society is going, fairly clearly unhealthy for everyone involved.
Anecdotally, all our young family members don’t trust A.I. at all.
Once, I asked it a question as a joke, (I think it was about "Labubu"s or something I’m out of touch about); they told me it sounds like fake news 😂. I asked the tool if we could trust it, and it said something like “no, don’t trust me”, which was hilarious.
I think kids these days have a good bullshit detector, by necessity.
Yesterday I heard an 11yr old - who I’ve witnessed watching AI brain rot content recently - decry that some channel he was shown was “AI slop”, and was incredulous about being shown it. Now I know kids can change their mind very quickly and will just parrot what they hear and think is cool, but it felt good to hear a young kid say this to another, and essentially be mad about it.
But older people still trust surveys. So no, we’re doomed.
there you go! keep using that noggin!
If AI gave correct answers 95% of the time instead of <50%, didn’t cause massive inflation in computer parts and doesn’t completely fuck the environment I’d be somewhat in favor of it.
5% is still very very high, especially talking about the things people want to use it for
“If my grandmother had wheels she would’ve been a bike”
Yep, the reality is different so to hell with AI.
It would still be dogshit for how slop has infused the human creative domain, and for how it contributes to brain rot. In fact, being more correct would probably make both of those things worse.
