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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.iotoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is with the pro-AI posts lately?
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    24 hours ago

    Pro-AI people are a small minority in my experience, but are generally overrepresented in the tech geek communities that make up the majority of users on the fediverse. Anecdotally, I think that the vast majority of people are indifferent about AI, some of them may find it to be a novel replacement for web searching, but almost nobody is interested in paying for generative AI (as evidenced by the AI companies hemorrhaging cash). If you were to ask on a more creativity-centric community, you would find that anti-AI sentiment is near ubiquitous amongst the working creative class.

    Sadly, there is a significant number of untalented and brainless fools who use unethical corporate AI models as a crutch to compensate for their lack of real-world skills and relationships.

    But for as many people as there that claim to be pro-AI, you simply don’t see people actively seek out AI-generated art, music, videos, or stories. I would argue that most of the consumers of AI content are people who have been unwittingly duped into reading/watching/listening to it

    For reasons I can’t quite understand, some AI fans are also deluded into believing that AI will somehow usher in a post-capitalist utopia, despite the obvious fact it is only further empowering and enriching the most wealthy tech companies and the oligarchs that control them.

    AI psychosis is a documented problem.

    Finally, pro-AI people are infinitely more likely to use AI to generate spam and proganda in support of their worldview than people who are against it. Are we supposed to believe people that have AI girlfriends are above using AI to write bogus posts and comments?

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.iotoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Ireland is a Catholic majority country. Yet all the Americans I know who identify as Irish are Protestant. Why is that?
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    4 days ago

    While the Irish were certainly looked down upon by other Europeans, they were still European Christians and therefore white.

    That’s a strange definition of “white”, to be honest. People put way too much emphasis on skin color, and “white” vs “non-white” is a ridiculously simplistic and narrow way to view anthropology.

    The Irish and Scottish are ethnically and culturally Gaels, a Celtic people, and (as far back as history is recorded) the native people of their respective lands. Viking and Roman Catholic influences were imposed on Ireland through conquest and religious missions. Christianity was made to emulate and adapt elements of Gaelic mythology (for example: Brigid -> Saint Bridget) which made it easier for the Irish people to adopt. The Roman expansion wiped out and assimilated many of Northwestern Europe’s Celtic peoples, other than those in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

    That is to say, ethnically Irish people are not Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians, Romantic, Germanic, Russians, or anything else.

    Discrimination against Irish people in Europe and North America was a documented fact of life going well into the 20th century.

    Today’s Ireland is a somewhat diverse place, with a mix of racial and religious backgrounds and is, thankfully, much more secular than it was just a few decades ago.

    As for why Irish-Americans around you might identify as protestant, it’s probably either because they come from a Northern Irish (Anglican) background or because they they are really just Americans evangelicals searching for a distant familial cultural heritage to attach to. They best way to find out is to ask them.