What you have to understand is that Lemmy is full of tech people who are bombarded with “AI is the future” messaging all day long. And implicit in all of that is layoffs for tech workers and enshitification for everyone else.
Seeing a reaction without context is always going to look irrational. People know that AI has it’s uses and can even be pretty neat. But what it’s being sold as is a gigantic lie that’s going to hurt people.
What you have to understand is that Lemmy is full of tech people who are bombarded with “AI is the future” messaging all day long. And implicit in all of that is layoffs for tech workers and enshitification for everyone else.
Seeing a reaction without context is always going to look irrational. People know that AI has it’s uses and can even be pretty neat. But what it’s being sold as is a gigantic lie that’s going to hurt people.