Man..

Every day feels like AI is being pushed so far and for the wrong reasons.

From being used to farm user data for the sake of publicity that its not even right to "sophisticated" scams to lifeless, soulless AI slop that tries to imitate art. Like, damn, Twitter users now have a way of flooding your comments section using AI scam bots trying to steal your crypto monkeys! Nothing good is coming from these state-of-the-art LLMs.. At least that's what I hear from all the news on AI nowadays and maybe not only me but the entire internet as well. They despise AI.

BUT

People are hating AI but not disregarding its potential. Huuuuge steps have been made in different areas thanks to AI. We may have a better way of detecting breast cancer, teachers can search for more or better material for their classes, help people with disabilities work on papers by correcting their work, learn new languages, etc.

My theory

The use of AI is really on its way of changing millions of lifes for the better, we are just not able to see it because, and this is a theory of mine, it is not being digested in a way that attracts curiosity.
Everyone is curious about the use of AI, its today and tomorrow's hot topic but how many people do you know that actually go into a research paper or one of those AI blogs, even with all the bloat it has, and reads their articles/findings? If it wasn't because they have to do it either for homework or work-related, they wouldn't have known about it.

How to fix this?

What I'd propose is fight against these commonly heard news of the latest AI scandal, spread the misuse of AI and also share your latest favorite AI development to these platforms. I'm not telling you to start copy and pasting the usual 🧵 news guru 🧵 with the thread emoji on his post. Instead, people would like to see actual interest put into these posts. I know I would and it would really help in this gray looking cloud that is the AI world.

I am curious though.. How would you fix this? Do you agree? Are there any good AI news portal that you'd recommend? I'm really interesting in seeing your comments. All of this was something I really needed to get out of my chest :)