<![CDATA[AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom.]]>AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom.

I'm curious if this polarization reflects reality or just the loudest voices. I'm running a quick pulse check on how YOU all actually feel about LLMs and AI talk in your timeline.

No right answer, just honest data.

Results will be followed by a breakdown of where I stand on this spectrum.

Boosts welcome

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ad2e3cb7-7f1f-450a-8964-7d6fc090c113/ai-discourse-on-mastodon-feels-increasingly-binary-either-total-utopia-or-absolute-doom.RSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 21:51:52 GMTTue, 07 Apr 2026 13:00:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:16:26 GMT]]>@nerdpr0f @riaschissl this probably most closely aligns with my views. I'm forced to understand how it works, if only because its a gun pointed at the foot of every company that uses it.

and while I'm required to understand it, I absolutely abhor it for all of the negative ethical, environmental, not to mention market impacts the technology has caused, with the creators being flagrantly indifferent all the while.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/da_667/statuses/116364082322709951https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/da_667/statuses/116364082322709951Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:16:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:11:40 GMT]]>@Uair @riaschissl there are legitimate use cases of ML or AI, just not any real for LLMs, in my humble opinion. I don't mind ML or AI, it's LLMs, aka GenAI, that I have the most issues with

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/webhat/statuses/116364063574722868https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/webhat/statuses/116364063574722868Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:11:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:47 GMT]]>@riaschissl Not my answer, but this poll is really missing "I'm forced to use it but I don't want to/it's not that helpful/tired of the debate"

My view actual view is "I use it occasionally, for a handful of non-critical processes, and broadly think the utility is far overblown."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nerdpr0f/statuses/116364044343788383https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nerdpr0f/statuses/116364044343788383Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:20 GMT]]>@riaschissl I don't want to use, while I am kind of forced, both by expectations in work and gradual worsening quality of search results...
I want to see discussion, maybe not rage attacks - things I mostly see are rather calm talk about dangers, maybe because most popular/boosted acounts happen to be researchers, scientists educated in tech ethics. etc. At least in this most visible part of fediverse I rarely read blind angry hate posts in this topic, maybe cynic jokes about slop but these at least don't lead to thread-wars.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is-a.cat/users/madargon/statuses/116364042592405500https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is-a.cat/users/madargon/statuses/116364042592405500Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:05:06 GMT]]>@riaschissl I am concerned about AI because of the cognitive atrophy; the abuse to and exploitation of creatives' work; the prolipheration of mis and disinformation; the environmental effect; the contribution to wealth inequality; the devaluation of skill and effort and the effect on livelihoods. At the same time, there's no putting the jaenie back in the bottle. We need ethical, ecologically sound, non-reckless, well-regulated, healthy use.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JustinMac84/statuses/116364037734100899https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JustinMac84/statuses/116364037734100899Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:05:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:54:07 GMT]]>@riaschissl

I don't use it, and don't like it, but I don't knock people with legitimate use cases. I'm glad to see the courts holding the line against allowing it creative rights. It seems to be an asset in some scientific research, at the very least.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116363994575719154https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116363994575719154Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:54:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:50:24 GMT]]>@riaschissl I wish there was more ML research discussion on the fediverse. The space is completely captured by Twitter/Substack. I think it's an unforced error from our communities

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/budududuroiu/statuses/116363979924312338https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/budududuroiu/statuses/116363979924312338Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:50:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI discourse on Mastodon feels increasingly binary: either total utopia or absolute doom. on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:12:39 GMT]]>@riaschissl

"I'm running a quick pulse check on how YOU all actually feel about LLMs and AI talk in your timeline."

and on sight

Bye...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/FinchHaven/statuses/116363595579694410https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/FinchHaven/statuses/116363595579694410Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:12:39 GMT