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    I’m preaching to the choir here on Lemmy but I’m glad that I made the jump to Linux last year

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      Whereas I’m enjoying many of the new AI-powered features that Microsoft has been coming up with lately.

      But echo chambers gonna echo, I guess.

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          No, I sound like someone who likes many of the new AI-powered features that Microsoft has been coming up with lately.

          I don’t use Linux. I don’t think about it at all, it doesn’t affect me.

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            I like copilot in VSCode but MS screenshotting my shit can fuck right off

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              Copilot has boosted my programming productivity significantly. Bing Chat has replaced Google when it comes to conceptual searches (ie, when I want to learn something, not when I want to find some specific website). I’ve been using Bing image creator extensively for illustrations for a tabletop roleplaying campaign I’m running. I still mostly use Gimp and Stable Diffusion locally for editing those images, but I’ve checked out Paint because of the AI integration and was seriously considering using it. Paint of all things, a program that’s long been considered somewhat of a joke.

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          Check the upvote/downvote counts on my comment vs. macattack’s. It’s nigh impossible to say anything positive about AI around here.

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            I wouldn’t say that’s particularly surprising. Most people in Lemmy and similar platforms have been here since the mass exodus from Reddit, or are programmers themselves. These groups are usually more privacy-minded, and see this as a significant privacy issue. This doesn’t really necessarily mean it’s an echo chamber though, I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how they use and like Windows, and I think the reason why they downvoted your comment (making an assumption here, I don’t see downvotes in my instance) is because it seems to be completely unprompted by anything or anyone, and a bit abrasive.

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              That just so happens to describe me to a T. I’m a privacy-minded programmer who came here as part of the Reddit exodus. Because I’m a programmer and am aware of how these AIs function, I am not overly concerned about them and appreciate the capabilities they provide to me. I’m aware of the risks and how to manage them.

              The comment I was responding to brought up “Linux is better” unprompted. But that’s in line with the echo, so I guess that’s fine.

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                • I’m a privacy-minded programmer
                • I’m (…) aware of how these AIs function
                • I am not overly concerned about them

                Objectively, these three statements form a paradox. At least one statement has to be false.

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                  I’m not overly concerned because I know how to use these things. I know what they do, and so when one of them is doing something concerning I turn it off.

                  People are frightened of things they don’t understand, and it’s apparent that lots of people don’t understand AI.

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                    Good luck turning off the corporate AI’s scraping your data from whatever websites you use to profit off of it!

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            It’s very possible to say positive things about AI around here - you just have some really big gaps in knowledge when it comes to how generative AI functions.

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            People dont hate ai, people hate “ai“ llms designed by corporations to produce compliant, inoffensive and soulless art and content, eventually leaving nothing but drab menial labor for us, imprisoned in our corporate shaped minds, unable to express any revolutionary thought any more.

            I am very interested in open source models i can run on my local machine. Just not in those corporate creativity perverters dystopian science fiction couldn’t come up with if it tried.

            E: there are a few ai communities on here too, for example fosai and stablediffusion, I would think you can find like minded people over there, even on lemmy.

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              Well good news, then, that’s not what Microsoft is using AI for this case.

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            I dislike the AI push as much as the next guy, but you are totally right. Pro-AI comments don’t do well around these parts. It’s crazy that people are denying it.