Microblog Memes

China definitely is. I don't really get how you people don't see this. You're on a pretty heavy CCP influenced social media site. This was one of the generators of anti AI. I bet if you used way back machine you'd see a lot of the anti AI meme's and opinions were originating here. Articles and opinions were heavily astro turfed and I even called this out at the time. It was a barrage of articles and posts that were all eerily similar to right wing content that is aimed at immigrants. It was all the same appeals. Articles about the evil horde of AI coming to attack your daughters and wives and take your jobs and steal your culture. It was a threat and you needed to fear it.

100% China wants their competitors to reject any new tech. Especially if that tech is potentially going to be disruptive. They don't want the average westerner playing around with it and innovating. This isn't an endorsement of AI. But you're blind if you don't realize that much of our anti AI content is driven by AstroTurfing in order to shoot ourselves in our own foot. This technology is here. It sucks. But if you're not using it and learning it and innovating, it's going to be a lot worse for you.

That's plausible I guess, the ops goal is always to sow division, and data centres are weirdly divisive atm. It's easy to imagine a lot of the posts about them are from foreign actors, especially when you consider the vague complaints like water usage and quality that don't stand up to basic scrutiny.

If I was a foreign intelligence agency I'd be capitalising on this momentum in slopulist spaces like this one. In fact OP's post is pretty lazy as well, so if their post history fits the pattern I'd assume they're also a sock.

There was no significant movement against datacenters until recently. You all still rely on datacenters everyday for posting on places like this or just using the internet in general. So this does look very manufactured and people were pointing this out even before OpenAI started talking about it. People didn't really seem to hate AI before the past few years either.

I am usually very pro chinese except for the part where they seem to embrace AI. As for ai data centers and Large language models at all: I despise them.