So, several content creators went full luddite on me tonight. One of them was vaush who has a known hate boner for AI, and hasan also went that direction too. So...I wanna discuss this stuff too. Honestly, I think every generation eventually gets skeptical of new technology and becomes anti it, only to become horrendously out of touch with the new way of doing things as they age, and then they end up being those technologically inept old people who dont understand the modern era because it's not 1970 any more. In the 1990s, I was regularly told I had to learn cursive to go to college and and that I would never have a calculator in my pocket. And that crap aged like milk. In the 2000s, while many were accepting of the internet, many were also skeptical of it, and there was the whole idea that "well if you just google everything how are you gonna know how to use a library" and stuff. And again, that aged like milk.
And now in the 2020s, a lot of content creators my age and even younger are now anti AI. And I find it dumb. I'm sorry, i do. I'm not a full on tech bro, I've even written articles in which i was skeptical of the AI trend, mostly because some businesspeople decided to ram it down our throats and were trying to integrate it into literally everything, even when it's not needed. They just decided "THIS IS T3H FU7UR3" and everyone had to "get with it" and that those who didn't were gonna be left behind with non functioning tech or whatever, and yeah, it's dumb when companies do that. So I can be critical of AI when I need to be. But at the same time this weird trend of leftists just fundamentally opposing this stuff is well, luddite crap. And a lot of them are sounding like boomers with computers.
AI is a tool. It is a useful tool. It can save a lot of labor hours and manpower in the economic sphere, which is a good thing. Unlike a lot of leftists, I wanna automate the jobs. Because i dont wanna work in the first place and understand that work sucks. We should wanna automate work away, and yeah, that's gonna require coming up with ways to take care of people outside of paychecks from work, but that's why we should have policies like UBI. I mean, duh. So to me, saving manpower is a good thing.
I know I had a friend tonight oppose it because it "steals" from artists, and also makes artists lazy. Again, depends how it's used. I mean, it's a tool. Overused it can be annoying because, quite frankly, I dont think AI can really replicate human creativity, it just mimics what humans do at best and often isnt as good as the original article is. But it can fill in the gaps. I just hate it being overused where actual work suffers.
I know a lot of people are opposing it in a college context. Like Hasan was complaining about how ermahgerd these kids are going to school to use a degree and they're becoming overeliant on AI where they dont know how to do anything and they're stupid, and "I dont like AI because i want to do my own thinking." Uh...I admit its easy for college students to become overly reliant on AI, but at the same time, this sounds like someone who would rather do their own research in a library than use google or they'd rather do their own math with pen and paper than use a calculator. It's a tool. Tools can provide shortcuts and yes, it can stop people from actually learning how to do things the old fashioned way. But...this is how you get boomer mindset of "back in my day i changed my own oil with my own tools and kids these days are too reliant on technology." Okay, boomer. We all know old people who think like this. This is what you sound like.
Then vasuh talked about how a lot of colleges are starting to integrate AI into their ciurriculums. Which is good, because colleges teach people skills in the workforce, and if a lot of future jobs are just learning how to do AI prompts to get what you want, yeah, that's useful. Again, AI isnt the bad guy here. it's a labor saving tool. Saying kids these days arent gonna learn how to do things right is like saying that video games and google and calculators were rotting our minds back in the 90s and 2000s. it's dumb and just speaks of old and ignorant people out of touch with reality trying to regulate things they dont understand. And that's what these luddite leftists sound like to me.
AI is a tool. I'll admit, I dont use it much but I have started to use chatgpt in trying to help formulate thoughts with my book. It's not like I use AI to write a book for me or anything, but I do use it to bounce ideas off of, to sharpen my focus, to organize things, etc. I can see how people who overrely on it are going to possibly screw up given AI often "hallucinates" and you do have to do your own research to make sure what you're saying is accurate. AI aint perfect. It makes mistakes, and it cant fully replace human intelligence as it stands. Of course, it's still in its relative infancy stages. Over time this tech is just gonna improve. And it's gonna get better. And 10-20 years from now when it matures, it's gonna just be a part of every day life, kinda like how google is today. It's just the nature of things. Embrace it. No sense in fighting progress in this sense. The luddites always lose long term. AI is gonna be the future one way or another. We dont fully know what that future will look like, but again, it's a tool. The leftists who hate technology because capitalists wield it or whatever are literally modern day luddites and anti progress. It's such a terrible mindset to me.
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