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[–] mastod0n@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Question: which country are they talking about? When I search for summer vacation 2025 nothing comes up for June 6th.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You cam see the weekends. Even after school is out and the students aren't using it, Mon-Fri office works clearly still are.

[–] TheMonk@lemmings.world 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His is the scariest chart of the 2020s? Not the alarming warming spikes or the more powerful natural disasters? Who gives a shit if kids are cheating in school if they world they’re going to inhabit one day won’t leave them time for book learnin because they’re too busy surviving.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Tbf, part of why shit it so bad is because people are uneducated. If they can’t think for themselves then they’ll just believe whatever bullshit Fox News or the algorithm feeds them without critically thinking about it at all

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

And we've already seen that a company CAN change the "behaviour" of an LLM with a flick of a switch ("MechaHitler", anyone?), so imagine people being too lazy to research/learn, and a popular LLM being run by malicious actors.

[–] TheMonk@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago

I definitely get it. The chart is bad. I just meant more like…we are so close to that point of no return on the climate. If we haven’t already surpassed it. The damage is done. It’s game over. How bad is it going to get is the question now.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 280 points 3 days ago (21 children)

What we see here is the real user base of LLM. And 97% of them are free users.

It's hardly a mystery why no AI company is remotely close to making a profit, ever.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 103 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Yup, I'm surprised the bottom hasn't dropped out from these companies yet. It will be like the dot com crash in the early 2000s I'm guessing. And they'll act so surprised...

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 89 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They're being artificially propped up by billionaires to use as a bludgeon against labor. Profit is less important to them than destroying upward mobility and punishing anyone who thinks about unionizing.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 47 points 3 days ago

Wish more people caught on to this! The AI wave is not an economic boom and it is not motivated by any sort of consumer demand, it is very much a concerted push by industry to further impoverish the working class on several fronts (Monetary, mental, organizational, etc). That's why it has continued flying in the face of all economic logic for the past several years.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago

Yes, like the other commenter replied, the Theils and Musks of the world want to go back to feudalism. That’s also why after years of making a big deal that interfering would tarnish the Washington Post, Bezos now seems to not care what happens to it’s reputation because he knows that there isn’t an alternative anymore.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The value isnt the product; that's garbage.

It's the politics of the product. Its the labor discipline, the ability to say 'computer said so'. Why bomb hospital? Computer said so. Yes, i wanted to bomb hospital, but what i wanted didn't factor in! i did it because computer (trained to say bomb hospital) said so!

Edit "~~deus~~ machina vult!"

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[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Have we still learned nothing about enshittification? This implication of this graph is that there’s an entire generation of people being raised right now who won’t be able to do jack shit without depending on AI. These companies don’t need to be profitable right now, because once they’re completely entrenched in the workflows and thought processes of millions of people, they can charge whatever they want. Accuracy and usefulness are secondary to addiction and dependency. If you can afford to amass power and ubiquity first, all the profit you can imagine will come later.

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If you think that's the scariest graph in the 2020s you have a shit memory of what happened at the beginning of this decade...

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd argue the scariest graphs are about the climate, but few people seem to care anymore. We are already at 1.5°C global warming. Coastal regions around the world are almost definitely going under by 2100.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 days ago

If anyone can out-engineer nature, then it's you. Please help us out in Sleeswijk Holstein!

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The scariest thing about this sentence is realizing we're already halfway to the next decade

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What the hell has happened this decade so far, anyway? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Feels like we made little progress and just took giant steps backwards everywhere.

I can think of a couple of good things!

We proved the efficacy of mrna vaccines and deployed them at an unprecedented scale against a novel virus that had us all locked in our house. If it hadn't worked, our governments were pinches this close to sacrificing us all for the ~~greater good~~ economy anyway so realistically these vaccines probably saved billions of lives.

We've also deployed a huge amount of solar energy and started replacing combustion engines with electric ones on a huge scale in some countries.

There has also been a lot of bad stuff though...

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[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trusting unsourced graphs is as stupid as trusting AI.

[–] bignate31@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

"June 6 is when school gets out in... uh... all the places where the children are using this AI thingy. Right."

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[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

cant wait for my surgeon to ask chat gpt where the bladder is

[–] iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You must be laughing but I work with medical professionals and they do use ChatGPT all the time. Maybe not (yet) for trivial stuff like what you said, but basically for everything else. My boss, a senior physician, basically tells everyone that the end of medical education is near and proposes some form of human-assisted AI in medical practice.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

@grok is this the diaphragm? insert pic of cut open patient

"What do 'left' and 'right' mean again?"

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

'Chat GPT? Explain to me like I'm 5 how to remove an inflamed appendix, but use only Roblox terminology... Also, say it like Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob.'

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 73 points 3 days ago (9 children)

the sooner the ai bubble bursts and takes down big tech with it the better

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 26 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Honestly the AI bubble is going to take the entire stock market with it. Over a quarter of the S&P 500 (an index of the 500 and something most valuable companies on the US Stock Market) is made up of tech companies directly investing in the AI bubble, and most individuals and funds these days invest into indexes rather than individual stocks so when a single overvalued market sector making up over a quarter of the market loses most of its value, every stock portfolio is going to lose a shitload of value.

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[–] wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Holy shit, you can even see the weekends.

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 85 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There have been scarier graphs in the 2020s 🙄

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Yeah, I can think of a few, mostly having to do with the massive pandemic that happened.

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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

This seems like a good place for a thought i had yesterday. I was driving home and watched a younger woman, no older than 20 take a corner fast and sharp on the sidewalk. She was on one of those electric scooters you can rent. My first thought is how fun that would have been at that age. Then i really started thinking.

Here was this young woman pretty sure at driving age but vehicle prices are out of control. So owning even a beater may be too much for many. I had a scooter very similar but you had to push it everywhere. The deference is, I was eight. I think what I'm trying to find the words for is their privilege of a motorized scooter came at a price they'll never even understand.

These poor youth think they have it easy with there motorized scooters and chatgpt for answers. Truth is there are benefits to some things, maybe history will show I'm being an old fuddy duddy but I know i would still rather afford a cheap car than have rentable scooters.

Maybe like my teachers before me they will only be half truths. My teacher was right, I don't carry a calculator on me at all time. The supercomputer the size of that old calculator, that just so happens to also have that function? Well, its never far.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Despite being from a time before the internet, pocket calculators and smart phones, (my first "calculator" was a slide rule), I'm as quick to adopt and master tech as I find a need for it. I like shiny new tech.

But as someone who also spent a few years teaching math in a my local and very rural school, I was not very generous with the use of that super computer in your pocket in my classroom. The reason being I wanted you to get your fingers dirty and greasy playing and manipulating those numbers yourself. I wanted to you develop a personal relationship with them and have at least a basic idea of the how and why they work.

Modern tech is great if you already have an understanding of how things work and can simply view it as a tool. But modern tech pretty much prevents people from developing the basic understanding of the how and why things work. And we are all dumber for it.

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[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey I'm one of the youths in their 20s who can't afford a car because America devolved into a third world country by the time I aged into adulthood. I bought my first car, 3 years ago and it broke down within a few months, then I bought a car with my partner so we would have wheels. We are divorced now. No car and I only have an ebike so I'm thankful for the transportation I do have, at least I don't have to ride the bus

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 64 points 3 days ago (5 children)

June 6th is not when school's out over here.

So is the hypothesis that OpenAI's usage is heavily regionally skewed to... wherever classes end that date? I'm guessing US, because that's what I guess when somebody forgets there's a planet attached to their country.

[–] hamms@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Schools in the US don't all follow the same schedule; it varies drastically state to state, and can even vary by district within any given state.

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[–] bbb@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My take away is that it's mainly children who are still using the free version of ChatGPT. Surely everyone else has moved on to better models.

If you want to know what people are typing into chatbot sites, here's 140,000 examples: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/arena-human-preference-140k. It's mostly nonsense.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Excuse me but who is "everyone else"? I am thankful to know noone who pays for this slop.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hahahahahaha holy shit it's not even a scaled graph jesus christ

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[–] morto@piefed.social 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is there a source for the chart? How do we know it's official data?

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