I just need to rant for a minute and I'd appreciate it if you read this through. Everywhere on Reddit, people are constantly hating on AI, specifically LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Almost every time I post about my personal experience using AI, I get downvoted for "contributing to the problem." But I’m 99% sure there isn't a single person on this site who hasn't used AI hundreds (if not thousands) of times, usually without even realizing it. Every Google search you’ve done recently pulls from Gemini to create AI overviews. Browsers like Brave have AI assistants built in, which are prompted every time you click search. And don't tell me you haven't Googled a hundred things this past year. The worst hate I ever got was on the PCMR subreddit. And I know I shouldn't have posted anything AI related on there, I just wanted to point something out. A lot of gamers hate on AI because data center demand is driving up GPU prices. But almost every gamer uses Nvidia or AMD. If you own an Nvidia card, you’ve literally funded the biggest AI driver on the planet, especially if you bought one recently. If you're on a newer AMD card, you’re probably using FSR 4, which uses AI upscaling to make your games run better. You are using some of the same tech you claim to hate. Yes gamers bought a graphics card to game, not to fund AI companies, but my point still has some meaning. And if some Redditors are so strictly anti-AI, why are they even on Reddit? Reddit actually licensed its data to train OpenAI’s models. By being here and using modern tech, almost everyone reading this is interacting with, funding, or benefiting from AI every single day. I'm not pro-AI or anything, I don't walk around telling people that AI is the future, but it's annoying to see so much hate on it. I know I might be exaggerating a bit, but the anti-AI hypocrisy on this platform is way too high.
Edit: This post was mostly talking about people who often say they choose to avoid or purposely not use AI because they hate it. Some people will say that someone is contributing to the problem by using ChatGPT, but then Google something, when they probably know that it is also using AI.
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