Even if most of the fediverse is against it, doesn't mean the minority who is interested can't make enough posts to be visible. The majority of the Fediverse is also not rightwing, but conservative communities keep cropping up, too.
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Just because AI is bad in majority of situations, doesn't mean it's bad in all situations.
Except environmentally
I have found it somewhat competent at bash scripting
I barely see a single post like this.
Maybe Lemmy.org is federated with some different folks, but where are you seeing them? From here, it even seems super rare even in places you might expect, like self-hosted or the dbz0 tech circles.
Here's two, one I scrolled across and one that came up in a search.
https://lemmy.org/post/1996107 https://lemmy.org/post/1929831
To be blunt, two doesn't seem like a lot to me.
And one of those is on the LocalLLaMA community, which is for people running LLMs locally, so it's a pretty safe bet that they aren't going to have any fundamental ideological problems with LLMs. If you go to !localllama@sh.itjust.works, !imageai@sh.itjust.works, or similar, it'd be very surprising if you found people who had an issue with generative AI.
That one kind of reminds me of when I first showed up here and was using kbin, which puts random posts in the sidebar to encourage discoverability. Both myself and another new kbin user wound up in some thread on a pawb.social community. The other guy
who probably didn't understand the structure of the Threadiverse or where he was commenting
was complaining about "all these furries" in the thread.
+1 to tal, that's not a lot.
However I do see a lot of the first post 'type' on Reddit. There a lot of that spam in /r/localllama.
But it's not AI specific, as I see a lot of that in technical forums as well: just some drive-by poster briefly asking for help, with no details, and never bothering to reply in the comments.
We are not to be spared the buzz marketing.
They don't know what automation is and think its ai.
I've seen quite a few ai products that are just if/then statements ducktaped together that say they have "ai".
Can I ask ai this question to get an answer?
I've been middle of the road in AI for years. I think it's fascinating. I love it as a toy. But LLMs have a lot if limitations and they can't be overcome through more compute or better training—mitigated but not overcome.
But man I've seen AI do some shit lately. Claude 4.5, Cline and an imagination can get shit done. Not "sell this to customers" shit but definitely "I know what I'm doing but I have an afternoon, not weeks — I've got you, bro" shit.
Definitely, "I've looked through this code and I want you to analyze it and tell me what you find so I can compare notes in case I've missed something."
Last night I had it tell me "I'm a little confused about this point. I thought I understood it, but maybe not. Can you go over it again?" What the actual fuck? Anthropic has taken this shit way further than I thought possible.
So then I explained it and it builds a whole thing. It needed tweaking. Whole thing was like $10 in API costs. But it saved me so much time and my position pays enough that saving me 10 hours of time makes that a steal.
The AI didn't do it in its own, for sure, but it saved me way more time than I thought it could. You're still fucked if you don't know how to do the thing, but I'm impressed.
Baseline for what hobbyists are going to be able to accomplish is going way up in the future.