The crowd at a SXSW screening booed at a video telling people to "stop resisting" AI advances and embrace them.

Audiences attending the SXSW premiere of “The Fall Guy,” starring Ryan Gosling, were not happy about having to watch a sizzle reel before the movie that touted the promises of AI.

    • drmeanfeel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sadly it’s still ragingly popular in the tech start up / tech bro / LinkedIn cringe world.

      My job is, among other things, ML related…I try to warn them off of this rhetoric all the time but they can’t stop being distracted by the shiny jingling keys.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Businesses love it because it will vaporize the workforce. Consumers hate it because they know they’re going to get a severely degraded experience in return.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        and tech workers have mixed feelings about it, because it’s made their job 10x easier whilst making them 10x more expendable

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Which part of my statement are you objecting to. I can definitely say the first part is true (N=20), and say the second part is somewhat true and growing (N=5), from my own personal observations of friends, family, and colleagues.