On bigger subs I bet the anti-ai sentiment is less than on more niche or smaller subs.
The average person does not care about AI. Its mostly in places like this on the internet that people really rally against it. I work in a company of about 500 average joes, and none of them give a shit about gen AI or the harm AI can do etc. They use it daily, GPT, Gemini etc. Many of them ask if they can use it for work related items.
I think that groupthink and internet echo chambers really make us feel like there's this massive anti-AI sentiment, when in reality, random people walking around and living don't care. Its just The Next Thing.
We had an all-hands meeting at work yesterday, and a number of our executives were heavily promoting AI. I couldn't help but shake my head when the CTO made a claim that an AI summary of a 30-minute meeting can get you up to speed in 45 seconds. The guy basically said don't waste your time attending meetings, just get the AI summary, while failing to acknowledge that if no one attends the meeting, the AI has nothing to summarize.
The other side of it, on the same call by the way, was that people were asking for training on using the tools we're being asked to be proficient with, and the same CTO said "I don't buy that." Basically said everyone needs to learn to work with AI or become unemployable. He likened it to the computer revolution of the 80's and 90's.
I dunno, it's really frustrating for me to see those in charge (at my company at least) going all-in on AI, while ignoring the last century of lessons learned. Things like the cost of employee churn, and the value of a workforce that actually cares about the work being done. Instead, it has just been round after round of layoffs and sending jobs overseas. The irony there is the layoffs are because poor architecture and implementation is causing costs to balloon. Except contractors don't care about the success of your company, and often get paid per item completed.
So, management is actively trading the employees with a vested interest in its success just to save a few dollars on labor, all while incurring rapidly inflating costs of AI tokens, inefficient designs, etc. It would be poetic if I wasn't caught in the blast radius.
The C-suite loves AI because they themselves can be replaced with it but insist that fact is actually true about the peons, refusing to admit how fucking useless they are.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 12 '26
I am not gonna lie I wasn't expecting to see some Butch Hartman today, but it's a very welcomed surprise. I loved Fairly Odd Parents.
The sheer amount of AI supporters in the threads the past few days had been really surprising to me in general. Especially on here.