Ask HN: AI-Haters and AI-Usage

2 points by emn4tor 46 days ago | 2 comments

Hey HN, so I got a few friends that completely hate on AI, which I partially get, AI-Art is taking jobs and looks ugly, but what is too much for you and how much AI do y'all use? Id like to understand the people that hate on AI, but most of the time their arguments are water usage, tho they all eat meat and buy new clothes which can be read about here https://bryantresearch.co.uk/insight-items/comparing-water-footprint-ai/

Also another question would be if being vegan/vegetarian would make AI usage less 'bad', or if its just a general hate

okzgn 46 days ago |

Too much for me: using an AI agent without understanding what it does, or without explicit or hard limits.

- Like this business case: https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-busines...

- This case involving security implications: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cyber...

- Or this related one from OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-secur...

k310 45 days ago |

My main objection is that people use AI to replace, not abet, logical reasoning and problem solving. In tech, I used to call this practice "button-pushing", doing things with basically no understanding of the problem, the tools at hand (hidden by a GUI), problem-solving techniques (which are completely transferable among many activities) and even dumb ass logic.

Now, short of AI, I will use web search to come up with ideas to explore, except when my technical queries return almost entirely local restaurants and movies for sale (You heard me DDG) and I have to qualify searches with many terms --- similar to prompts, I guess. But the idea is to brainstorm, not to brain sleep.

My word to young people (and not so young). "If you can push a button or submit a prompt to get an answer or solution to a problem, and not critically review it, management can do it without you."

Your review neurons have atrophied.