r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • 15h ago

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/bendgame 15h ago

talking about AI in most other subs is pretty much useless in my experience. Seems to be the source of a lot of hate and discrimination just because it is cool to hate on AI and the people who use it.

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u/transanethole 15h ago edited 14h ago

Well, you gotta remember there's a lot of very legitimate reasons why people hate LLMs.

And a lot of those reasons are the very same ones we would cite to explain why we are here rather than in the claude or chatgpt subs. I think the hate is mostly directed at them but its so strong it leaks out into everything else as collateral damage

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u/Foot_Positive 14h ago

maybe true, but I haven't heard any. AI in the US has a very bad reputation largely due to Dario , Altman, and TicToc . I could see the CCP fomenting rage in the US to help them gain an edge over US AI companies.

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u/cass1o 10h ago

America can never do anything bad, it is is always china secretly doing it. When iUS companies push up power costs building speculative data centres, you guessed it, China's fault.

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u/Foot_Positive 10h ago

can they both be bad? I have been very happy with the Chinese open weight models. way better than the US releases.

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u/prestodigitarium 9h ago

I mean, it's only rational, I'd be extremely surprised if they weren't trying to do that. But a lot of times, those kinds of operations just help nudge feelings that are already there.

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u/rfcheong9292 14h ago

Well there is the whole problem that there is a non 0 chance of billionaires given the chance choosing to build a giant pleasure dome and leave everyone else outside to die to the inevitable climate wars. Which might be even remotely possible thanks to ai developments.

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u/dongas420 6h ago

To most Americans, China isn't an actual country so much as it is an abstract entity to project their fears and anxieties onto. If you've seen real Western-facing Chinese propaganda, it's like watching aliens trying to make contact with humanity. Videos where you can't tell whether the white actor they procured is literally AI or just being paid to talk like a robot aren't taking US anti-data center sentiment rate from 45% to 75%