i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.
another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to… i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend…
In my day to day job as an engineer I use LLMs to help me do my work. They are tools just like anything else and enable me to work faster. I’ve even piloted an agent flow that takes our existing site (a huge behemoth of legacy and new services) and automatically performs accessibility testing across a variety of tools then gives us reports. We have actioned these to actively improve the experience of people using our product with screenreaders for instance (and have confirmed this from these very same people giving us feedback on the changes). The view that they are useless runs counter to reality and in my experience is usually from people who have deep emotional hate of technology. LLMs have incredible potential but as with anything under Capitalism they are used for horrors and their rollout is done with complete distain for human life and the environment. That is not special to AI.