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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Do techbros that complain on the Fediverse about people hating on AI realize it isn't just here that hates AI? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can't be waved around frantically to hide that.

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[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

It's getting a little shovey to be fair. The top of most Google results is an AI overview that you can't opt out of. The top line of WhatsApp is "ask meta AI". Meta is particularly bad for it, zuck explicitly wants to replace your real life friends with monetizable bots. Those of us working in big corporates are getting rapidly bored of the "assistants" and "copilots" that have nuked our tech budget and populate every app without assisting or copiloting in meaningful ways (and of correcting enthusiastically wrong output of colleagues blithely using LLMs for inappropriate tasks).

Some things it's possible to just avoid but big tech is pretty pervasive. Tricky to really participate in society without at this point.