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I Am An AI Hater

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443 points BallsInIt | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 19:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.009s | source
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danielbln ◴[27 Aug 25 19:51 UTC] No.45044286[source]▶
Yet it is here to stay, won't go away and even if it won't get any better at the useful things it does, it is useful. The externalities are real, some can be removed, some mitigated. If you're a hater and a human, then you don't have to mitigate anything, of course.

Me, I hate the externalities, but I love the thing. I want to use my own AI, hyper optimized and efficient and private. It would mitigate a lot. Maybe some day.

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yifanl ◴[27 Aug 25 20:11 UTC] No.45044555[source]▶
> Yet it is here to stay, won't go away

Source for this claim? Are you still using Groupon?

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1. brokencode ◴[27 Aug 25 20:20 UTC] No.45044666[source]▶
You must be living on a different planet if you think the adoption and societal impact Groupon was ever remotely comparable to AI.
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2. yifanl ◴[27 Aug 25 20:24 UTC] No.45044719[source]▶
I assure you as someone working FoH at the time, Groupon's impact on me was far greater than AI ever could be.
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3. brokencode ◴[27 Aug 25 21:15 UTC] No.45045385[source]▶
I’m talking about how it impacts society in general, not you specifically. Also, I don’t think you appreciate how deeply AI will affect your life in the future.

The next time you get a CT for example, it might be an AI system that finds a lung nodule and saves your life.

Or for a negative possibility, consider how deepfakes could seriously degrade politics and the media landscape.

There are massive potential upsides and downsides to AI that will almost certainly impact you more than a coupon company.