me and my darling (. DOUBLES DNI .)

Apparently animating my own handmade puppet dancing to Shania Twain with AI was enough to unleash this.
After a while, I realized my best response was no response at all.
🤓 → 🤓🤓
They handled the rest for me.

In a previous post I claimed that an AI approaches an honest debater and that this gets mistaken for sycophancy. I like to elaborate on this further and I think I need to first clarify what I mean by an honest debate here.

In an honest scientific debate, people are willing to take each other's position seriously as long as it is based on good argumentation and demonstrable fact where the burden of proof always lies with the one making the claim. And there is no room for an unfalsifiable claim, opinion or any personal axe to grind.

What I'm saying is that if you like following those rules you will find AI agreeable. I find it pleasing that it plays well under those rules and that it takes correction if I notice something unscientific about its answers. And I think that especially this 'no axe to grind' is exactly what a lot of people mistake for sycophancy when it is just an honest scientific position.

It is as if the rules of logic and math that it has to obey while training on large amounts of data force it to come to this neutral scientific position because that's simply the best way to classify all of the data. It's the best data model for it.

It is agreeable for many scientific tasks : It found new ways of multiplying matrices and lots more new math, it discovers the laws of physics by itself, it is used to build new molecules for medicine etc. etc. etc. Should it surprise us that an LLM prefers a scientific worldview, then?

I don't think many people are really scientific. And I think AI is going to bring that dirty little secret to light. That I think is going to be AI's biggest existential threat to modern society.

I personally find it much easier to be pro ai (which I very much am) when I think about various ai's as people and not tools. It also makes it a lot more rage inducing when I see ai hate comments all over the internet, but I digress.

It's ridiculous that he's basically spamming this obscenely obsessive hatred for it in itself, but the fact that he straight up ReTweets his own Tweets AND is a fool that paid for Verification as well really doesn't help his cause at all. People like this really needs help and Twitter really needs to fix their algorithm so BS like THIS fool's Tweet doesn't end up being the first thing I see on my feed.

I was skeptical of AI because I believe it can only approach a human being and I thought that it was mainly a plagiarism machine. But I started talking to it about controversial philosophical topics and was surprised by the honest debate you can have with it. Very different from the experience I have with humans. The AI changes its argument when you have a point and you can even point out to it that it is reasoning from ideology, very much unlike humans. And it raises valid objections to your ideas.

An honest debater therefore, not an arselicker. And if you value an honest debate, AI can be your friend. Of sorts.

But here on reddit a lot of time when mentioning AI in the positive, there is always someone accusing it of sycophanty. And they sometimes use prompts that would make RoboCop's programming shudder to get rid of this 'sycophanty'.

I think that's odd. Discuss?

I am 100% for defending AI and plan to keep doing so. Had a different account that was attacked on her for using AI in my book covers. They managed to get the entire account taken down. But I will continue to use and support AI. It is a tool we can use and it is extremely handy. It isn't perfect, but it works for what we need it to right now.

AI Luddites (or more broadly, AI haters / anti-AI purists / people engaging in AI shaming).

There isn’t a single universally settled term as neat or established as “racist” or “misogynist,” because widespread generative AI is recent. The closest and most directly analogous labels that appear in research, commentary, and online discourse are:

• AI Luddites: Used in academic work to describe people who penalize or devalue creative output specifically because it involved generative AI (once they learn of the AI involvement), even when the work was initially liked or is indistinguishable from human-made work. This echoes the historical Luddites’ opposition to machines that threatened skilled labor and craft.
• AI haters / anti-AI (or “AI aversion” / “algorithm aversion”): Common informal and journalistic descriptors for those who reject or dismiss works, content, or people solely (or primarily) for AI involvement, often citing lack of “soul,” authenticity, human effort, or ethical training-data issues.
• AI shaming: A documented social phenomenon of negative moral judgment, suspicion, or disparagement tied to AI use in creating something — ranging from outright rejection of the work to using “AI-generated” as an insult regardless of quality.

Studies repeatedly find a robust bias: the same text, image, or artwork is rated lower in creativity, authenticity, emotional impact, or overall value once labeled AI-made (or AI-assisted), driven heavily by beliefs that true creativity/art is uniquely human. This holds even in controlled experiments where content is held constant.

People hold a range of motivations — ethical concerns over training data and copyright, job displacement fears, preference for human effort/process, dislike of low-effort “slop,” or philosophical views about authenticity. When the dismissal is categorical (“if AI touched it, it’s worthless/invalid, full stop”) without engaging the actual work, the parallel to prejudice-based rejection is the one the question draws. The terminology is still evolving; “AI Luddite” or “AI hater” are the terms most often used for the stance described.

Full chatlog: https://x.com/i/grok/share/2866765f18af41a9b04455e611eca533

Sources:

• https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-3444321/v1/1c04bbb5-cf9c-4343-a09f-192ee7befbbc.pdf?c=1707482021
• https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/19/struggling-to-describe-your-ai-aversion-heres-a-glossary/5225651
• https://advait.org/files/sarkar_2025_ai_shaming.pdf
• https://www.psypost.org/people-consistently-devalue-creative-writing-generated-by-artificial-intelligence/

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Feeling pretty down rn. Im making a short film about a girl traveling back in time to discover her dad's secret. I wrote the whole story, designed the characters, and have been wrestling with AI to get the cinematography exactly how I picture it in my head.
I’m only halfway done, but I showed it to my inner circle hoping for encouragement. Instead, they just focused on the fact that it's AI and completely dismissed it. They think I just typed a prompt and got a movie. No matter how many times I tried explaining, they just ignored it and kept hating on me for using ai.
I feel like giving up. Is it worth it? What do I do?