>But is that a widespread feeling, are the vibes bad for regular people, or is this effectively just old man shouting at clouds?

A cursory glance at YouGov strongly suggests that people have bad vibes about AI in basically every territory where they're asked about it, and for basically every use-case

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simonw an hour ago | parent [-]

How many of the people who answer polls like that also have the ability to look at a poster and instantly clock that it was AI-generated?

	▲	qingcharles 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Almost none, sadly. Most of the population just doesn't have that skill, which is why places like Facebook are just reams of AI Jesus upvoted to the Moon. I saw this menu online the other day, and it's not even discernable from the photo what the food products are; it even sets off trypophobia: https://imgur.com/a/YvyRjts But people are still ordering it.
	▲	andrewflnr 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They don't care, because it's only tangentially about the concrete output. It's about the hollowing of human communication and creativity.