What does it mean to be massively against AI?
8 points by kngl
8 points by kngl
Quoting the followup on Mastodon:
LLM are a subset of AI. I’m not convinced why being more precise here would matter?
This is precisely the motte-and-bailey fallacy: a value judgement about the subset is not necessarily applicable to the whole set. It's fairly easy to see this for AI, because AI simultaneously covers the production of artificial slaves who labor like humans but lack rights, and also weather prediction. To be pro-AI in all aspects is to be pro-slavery; to be anti-AI in all aspects is to be anti-meteorology. LLMs provoke the ELIZA effect; further, they are supernormal stimuli which can sometimes provoke psychoses. I have used more words previously, on Awful, but in short, this is specific to linguistic memetics and relates to specific brain structures. It's reasonable to be pro- or anti-LLM based on the mental harms of chatting with an LLM-powered chatbot without extending that judgement to be pro- or anti-AI.
He also asked this on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mitsuhiko.at/post/3m6fbnnhynk2i