I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of pro-AI posts on this platform.

Various posts with titles similar to “When will people stop being afraid of AI” or “Can we please acknowledge AI was very needed for X”

Can’t tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    16·
    12 days ago

    On federated platforms like Lemmy, a small number of highly active users can also create the impression of a broader cultural shift.

    And bear in mind that this goes in both directions, it’s possible for highly active anti-AI users to flood the discourse.

    Community opinion is often a bistable state. If 70% of the userbase has opinion A and is constantly downvoting and browbeating anyone who says anything positive about opinion B, one would naturally expect the userbase to soon be 80% opinion A. Then 90%. And so forth. The few holdouts who continue to say positive things about opinion B get labelled as “bots” and “trolls” and are dismissed.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      5·
      12 days ago

      Thank you. Not enough people recognize this.

      Additionally, groups with an agenda can reinforce this trend.