Ask HN: Why are certain communities like Reddit so anti-AI?

There are people on here who are negative about AI as well.

I'm not negative about AI within the things it's currently useful for and the constraints of what LLM's can help with.

I'm pretty negative about the massive over-hyping of AI with wild assertions and completely underwhelmed by the current implementations of it - I also half suspect they are going to crash the financial markets when reality and hype catch up with each other.

Who knows, I might be wrong, they might discover machine intelligence and make AI actually be AI in the next 5-10 years which would be quite the achievement since we don't have a good grasp of what intelligence even is including our own.

It's not really anything new though, hot new technology gets early adoption, salespeople move in, becomes massively over hyped, will change everything turns out to not change everything but be useful for some things, gets used for those things and the world continues.

I'm even old enough to remember when OOP was spoken about as "The Next Big Thing That Will Change Everything".

Gartner even has a name for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle