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Screenshot of a Mastodon post by Kevin Beaumont: “Generative Al government lobbying.”
Photo of AI/tech company CEO’s, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.
Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.
I always see a lot of comments about how negative Lemmy is toward AI. If ever there is a demographic ideal for AI use, it’s the current user base on Lemmy. If you can’t convince people on here about AI, then it’s not the user that is the problem, it’s that the product is wrong (or just plain useless).
You basically have 2 kinds of users here:
Those who understand how AI is created and how it is possible to be used in incredible ways, but through Capitalism is being shoved into all kinds of dumb features that do nothing but annoy users, in the hope of jumping on the AI hype train.
And the AI-phobes who claim AI can do nothing good, it is a waste of resources, it shit in their coffee and is the worst thing since Hitler.
So no, I wouldn’t say the current user base on Lemmy is demographically ideal. You don’t even need to be technologically inclined to be here, since you just need to be able to create an account like most have done on so many other websites.
There are lots of very useful uses for AI. But they’re all in a lab or sitting away on a service somewhere crunching numbers. The general public doesn’t need to know about them and largely doesn’t know about them.
They certainly don’t need to be selling access on the internet so that people can program rather crap apps.