I have even used it to write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer...
Dystopian.
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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Technically speaking. It is great. 1 sentence and all your work is done? Easy. I work in a school. The lazy teachers will say 'tell me the similarities and differences between X and Y cultures' print off the 3-4 pages, and read it to the students. Super easy
But I will never use it, because I don't want a future dependent on the AI companies. I want a future of people talking to people, not compters
I think the point you are making is that "AI is useful," which is slightly different than "AI is great."
I'm an AI hater, but I've found some niche areas in my life where it's useful.
But I still see the overall net effect of AI - well, at least of LLMs, which are a small subset of AI - on the world to be overwhelmingly negative to the extent that the niche positive impacts are not remotely worth the costs.
Thanks for posting an actual unpopular opinion. Can't tell if half agree or not because so many people are dumb and down vote opinions they disagree with in this community.
Ive tested these tools really hoping they are half as good as people say but they are just shit. When you ask it topics that you know you can see how bad the info is. Its hard to trust it. I used copilot to quickly check the tmp requirement of a CPU and instead of finding me the official documentation like I asked and getting the result from there it parroted a comment from the hp fourm (link at a glance looked correct enough) which was completely wrong.
At that point its just like why did I even bother when i can pull up the spec sheet in 3 actions search>click official spec sheet>Ctrl+f boom.
Copilot button > search Its not even much faster.
I don’t care about how well it works (or doesn’t, but we all know how fallible it is). The social and ethical costs are simply too high, and people using it are either uninformed or have no functioning conscience.
If you have to use ai to answer a question. Please don't answer it lmfao . This has to be rage bait right?
I didn’t use AI to create this post, so there you go.
AI use leads to cognitive decline
AI is responsible for multiple child suicides
AI is environmental destruction
It is not possible to be an ethical user of AI tools at present. If you use them you are contributing to and complicit in the problems they create, which vastly outweigh any short-term convenience benefits. If you use AI tools you are participating in a destructive system.
Do your own work.
The only one that really applies is the last one. All the others are peripheral to the topic of this post and use of LLMs in general.
All of the detrimental effects of using AI tools and all of the unethical ways in which training data is collected for them are valid reasons that anyone with any sense should object to their use, regardless of whether those effects are directly the result of any specific circumstances. There are more than enough problems that all of this crap can and should be generally maligned and universally avoided until the companies responsible for it fix their shit.
If you are not a conscientious objector then you are complicit in the damage being done.
All of it.
That's a general, sweeping statement meant to lump everything together and denounce it categorically, without regard for how any of those issues affect users or whether they're relevant under the guise of a nebulous altruistic motive. It's lazy and so characteristic of the most obnoxious brand of leftism on here.
Literally none of those issues, besides the last, is relevant to me or even OP's use, regardless of how little or how much we actually use the technology. I welcome you to expand on your points to prove each one without resorting to blanket statements, because I guarantee that none of them apply besides the last.
I don’t have to get a lawyer involved
know more about mobile nuclear reactors
create marketing materials and personal profiles
write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer
answer questions here on Lemmy
Everything you've written here has confirmed that I should avoid LLMs. And, to be frank, avoid you.
It boggles my mind why would anyone want to talk to an LLM when there are all these calm, open-minded, and delightfully reasonable people to chat with here instead?
the only time ive used it and not hated the result was when working on an old imac g3, completely out of fourms and not knowing what to search to get my answer i decided to let the internet scraper do what it does best and it found some key combos i wouldnt have found on my own
got me further into project because of it, and ditched it from there cuz i felt dirty lol. was handy but not climate destroying mass surveillance handy
Idk. Speaking from my own experience, it's not very clever. It might save you the time and money for a lawyer now. And maybe some time later make something up, you'll blow a contract and loose $20,000 and you wish you had paid an expert. Or it doesn't happen, that's something we can tell with hindsight. And depends a lot on how complicated the contracts are, how well you check them, if the other party is a greedy company or some random grandma... But I'm willing to agree with the premise. Usually people -for some reason- need to be subscribed to one of the extremes. And there are things AI can do if people use it to their advantage and are aware of the limitations... I suppose if it works for you... it works for you. I'm having a bit of a hard time because it adds loads of inaccuracies and errors to my computer code and I ended up putting in quite some extra time into things I previously did myself in a fraction of the time. So I use AI for select tasks which aren't an exact science. Like draw the logo for the prototype, or generate filler text, or come up with 10 creative ideas for gimmicks to add. That's something it's able to do for me.
I guess I'm not entirely okay, though. I've lately tried to contact a company who "outsourced" their customer support to AI. And I guess it also works out well for them, they probably don't need to pay anyone to staff the hotline anymore. But their customers are properly fucked now. Took us several days, some trickery and luck to get hold of a human and achieve something. And that's the flipside if companies use it to save money.
I don't want it to be clever.
...because you fear for your job and don't want it to be capable enough to do it? Or fear the robot apocalypse? Or because you have applications which don't require artificial intelligence to be intelligent?
I mean on its own I think it's a bit of a stupid opinion. You kinda want the Waymo on the street to be clever enough not to run you over as a pedestrian. That'd be bad and hurt at minimum.
It was a joke about the robot apocalypse, but thanks for jumping to the you are stupid conclusion.
Alright sorry, I didn't mean to say you're stupid, just the opinion without any hint for me to understand... So I mainly didn't get the joke. But yeah, I feel for the robo apocalypse. Though I think it has to get considerably more intelligent to get anywhere close 😄
"Contrary to popular belief, burning my trash and shit right under my neighbor's bedroom window has been really helpful to me."
AI is great if you ignore everything wrong with it. Just like every other awful thing.
We forget that it “knows” what it does by stealing every piece of text that can be found on the internet. No one will ever be credited or paid unless your AI service decides to (which: spoiler, they won’t). And the power consumption is outlandish. Like, literally climate-collapsing outlandish. But here we are.
That said, I don’t see a way of stopping it other than charging what it costs for it. It’s basically being subsidized right now and is “free” more or less. Plus there’s no option to stop hallucinations, they’re baked in, so it should never be used to decide anything (although it will).
That said, if you want it to write a smurf-themed baking book - or whatever - in seconds, it can do that pretty well. It’s pretty good at stepping through tech support-type questions. And it fills out forms in seconds.
But the outlandish crime and power-grabs (literally, even) to get it here or further make it so very fucked up.
When you look at the AI summary of a topic you know little to nothing about, how do you know that the summary is factual and not something the LLM just made up? (Such as, someone on Reddit said something incorrect and the LLM was trained on that.)
How much do you have to fix what AI gives you for legal documents (vs. you just re-wording) things?
I would find a lot of utility with LLMs like you. These are great applications of LLMs. I don't use them because they are controlled by large companies that may partner with Google and cooperate with law enforcement. I haven't bothered to work on hosting my own yet.