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>>kcorbi+(OP)
Interesting analysis. Suprised HN is so negative towards AI (and that the positive:negative ratio to AI is about the same as it was for Crypto a few years ago!)

The obvious difference is that AI has abundant use-cases, while Crypto only has tenuous ones.

Maybe there is added negativity considering it is a technology where there is clearly a potential threat to jobs on a personal level (e.g. lift operators were very negative towards automatic lifts).

>>Closi+g8
(author here) Yes, I was surprised that AI didn't have more positive sentiment overall!

Subjectively, the two flavors of AI-negative sentiment I've seen most commonly on HN are (1) its potential to invade privacy, and (2) its potential to displace workers, including workers in tech.

I think that (1) was by far the most common concern up until around the ChatGPT release, at which point (2) became a major concern for many HN readers.

>>kcorbi+Nc
There was nothing about the ethical question of training models on copyrighted content? Nothing about centralizing power even further in big tech companies? Nothing about AI flooding the world with mediocre content and wrong information?

These are genuine questions, not critique on your statement.

>>Manfre+mi
Centralizing power is a good point.

It feels like a huge dependency with a bunch of money involved.

I cannot _not_ see it clumping to a sentiment comparable to "you either AWS' or have no idea what cloud/network/cluster means".

We use these things like it’s actually "something". It’s not. We don’t build things with it. We configure other people’s software.

It’s born to be promoted as the next big enterprise stuff. You either know how to configure it or are not enterprise-worthy.

And that farts. Being dependent on someone else’s stuff has never turned out good.

Well, I mean. You can also not give a duck and squeeze out all the money. Work a job, abandon it and jump on the next train.

Feels useless, doesn’t it?