Look, I’m not really one to care either way about the fucking thing. It’s a tool. That’s all I’ll say.
But normies (or at least a certain subset), now, are fucking obsessed with the thing. Like, it’s absolutely cult-like, with the usual slavish devotion, the complete unwillingness to accept any criticism, and, perhaps most importantly, a massive overestimation of just what the thing is capable of, and what it can do…
Stupid fuckers genuinely believe that they can have some version of “fully automated luxury gay space communism”, just because of the last couple of years of AI hype, and the fact that it can write better essays than their utterly pathetic selves can even come up with…
Like, fuck, I’ve even had teachers going on and on about how this brilliant device will “save us all, and allow us to be our full transcendent selves”…
The ignorance is astounding. The utter hype-following and clout-chasing is even worse…
Like, yes, the “creatives” worrying for their jobs can be annoying, but they’re nothing on the hype-cultists who have jumped on this bandwagon to the point of basing their entire futures on what they think this fucking system is going to do “for them”…
It’s like the first smartphones all over again, but somehow so much worse…
/endrant
This is why I believe that AI will be the next insider trading scam, like you point out, the normies are way more scared of AI than they are of climate change. I love sci-fi but even I feel like they've been watching too many movies and need to get a grip, this is something I've ranted about a lot on this site.
It hasn't reached my RL circle as of yet but being somebody who does study AI I'm going to call them the fuck out on this one and I don't care how many enemies it makes me. If anything could be classed as misinformation it's this . The programmers who make these glorified chat bots are salivating over how much money they're going to make so they keep up the fear by blatantly lying about the AIs capabilities because they know the normies are going to carry it the rest of the way and start screaming at the government to do something about it before 'skynet takes over'.
Fucking morons and yes I will probably get angry and call them that as well.