As a general observation, I find that the more right-leaning a person is, the more they tend to be receptive to the usage and adoption of “AI”. And inversely, the more left-leaning, the more skeptical.
I pin this on the notion that most conservatives hate workers, are happy to see them laid off, etc. Whereas more progressive folks tend to see value in what human beings do.
Moreover, communists like ourselves almost completely dismiss the plagarism slop machines as being utterly misanthropic, not to mention flying in the face of the labour theory of value.
As an anecdote, I work with a conservative guy who puts EVERYTHING through Grok. Almost everything he types/says to his team mates he gets Grok to write for him. Everything he “fact-checks” goes through Grok. He views it as totally impartial, without bias, etc.
On the other hand, I think more critically-minded folks are prone to seeing the inherent bias in these chatbot slop machines, and view them with skepticism in the same way they view all other institutions in society.
Clearly I am generalising a lot here, but has anyone else made the same or similar observation?
Yeah, like “AI” has always been ChudTech.
I think they also get a kick out of it because in a sense, AI is a sign they’ve got what they wanted out of the culture wars. You know how at one time, sushi was considered this fancy new thing and libs would sniff their own farts over it? Yeah, AI is the conservative equivalent. Let me explain. It’s this shiny, new, trendy thing that is supposedly embraced by those “in the know”, and disliked by dumb rubes. This time, they get to feel like the intellectual cosmopolitan embracing the future and laughing at those uncultured provincials who just don’t GET IT!
I wish AI was actually as good as people said it was. If I had a niche question and some advanced google search can explain any concept in parts? Great! If IDEs corrections were so advanced that all the silly mistakes any coder makes were a thing of the past? Awesome!