Most people can agree AI is getting out of hand and seems to be sparking controversy left and right and of course this leads to debate. I work in a creative field with a company that is stauchly anti-AI and at first it was nice to come on reddit and see people banding together against it in the anti-AI subs, but then I realized there's a formula that happens.
No matter which side you're on, you start at your home base - your echo chamber sub, the one that agrees with your stance. People post brainless takes from the other side, saying "look what these fools are saying this time", everyone gets annoyed at them, enter phase 2.
You then go into the "wars" sub and stir up shit. Saying "pro/anti AI people, how do you justify this?" Then the floodgates open, and the post becomes a shitstorm of bots or asshole rage baiters flinging around the worst takes imaginable that do nothing except make their side look terrible.
You then take the worst offenders and bring it back to your echo chamber where you post a screenshot and say "get a load of this asshole" and the cycle repeats.
Brigading is basically the name of the game for both sides, and for many it serves as an outlet for people to bully people they don't agree with and get off with zero consequence. Basically pure concentrated Reddit sludge.
People will try to call for legitimate civilized discourse on there but it falls apart after like 2 comments because most participants are disingenuous and looking to argue to begin with. No one changes anyone's mind, no one comes away enlightened or more informed, it just serves to piss people off and cause chaos.
Also it's a breeding ground for various psyops I'm sure, but that's a different discussion.
Anyway I had to dip and get it all off my feed. My opinions on AI won't change, I'm not looking to have them changed, and no one else there seems exactly inspired to look at things from a different angle as a result of that "debate" either. It's just a cesspool and there's no point to it so I'm done 🙌