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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 173 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't hate AI. That's pointless. I hate the people who use AI to ruin everything, which is the majority of AI users today.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also hate the term AI.
And I'm not sure about the actual code either.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I had an idea for a SciFi story I wanted to write where a person's consciousness is uploaded into a computer. Now I can't even trito it without feeling gross because LLMs ruined everything for me, even AI scifi.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I reserve the hate (well, severe disdain and contempt, hate is personal in my book, haven't needed it for quite a while) for the C-Suites and owners, users get contempt if they're using it to think for them and a pass with some sympathy if they've found a way to use it as a tool while retaining executive function. LLMs and broader machine learning are fine, just a tool. You can use a wrench constructively or give someone a concussion, that's on you.

SamA is the exception, hate that market cornering fucker (and yes it's personal, I was going to go AM5 this year).

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[–] wizblizz@lemmy.world 120 points 1 month ago (107 children)

The fuck are all these comments? AI is shit, fuck AI. It fuels billionaires, destroys the environment, kills critical thinking, confidently tells you to off yourself, praises Hitler, advocates for glue as a pizza topping. This tech is a war on artists and free thought and needs to be destroyed. Stop normalizing, stop using it.

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[–] PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some people I work with when they do an internet search they go straight to the ai info. Literally read out the first bit of what's there and take that as the truth.

Great way to make yourself immediately untrustworthy

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do I love my 4-year-old? Yes

Would I let my precocious 4-year-old full of imagination write my business report? Fuck no. Are you stupid or what?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

McKinsey isn't exactly stupid, its amorality run amok and a culture of cutthroats.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you've ever worked with consultants or managers in general, like 50-75% of them are fucking stupid. Just because they can convince other idiots that they're not, doesn't mean they aren't. I've watched the blind lead the blind into financial ruin, while getting paid big bucks to do it.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then everyone clapped.

[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The name of those tears? Albert Einstein.

[–] Magnum 50 points 1 month ago

And then everyone applauded.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

People around me use AI all the time to get answers to generalized topics. More and more they use it like a search engine / information augmentation system.

They are not technical people. They mostly know that the information needs to be double checked and might be wrong. But usually take it at face value if the importance is low.

Honestly this is about what they did before. They would search Google, click on the first blog, skim it, and repeat until getting some answer they believe.

I too use AI regularly for brainstorming, quickly summarizing massive text messages, and reformatting text from a jumbled mess into something more cohesive, etc.

I don't love it or hate it. In some cases it saves a lot of time and is useful tool. In other cases it outputs trash that we cannot use for any serious case.

Just like a hammer or a shovel, it's a tool. Can be used the right way and it can be used the wrong way.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I think of an LLM as extraordinarily lossy compression. All the training data is essentially encoded in the model. You can get an approximation of the data back out again with the right input.

I don't think it's any less reliable that random blogs on the web, and I don't have to wade through SEO tripe either.

[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The annoying thing though is that all the random blogs on the web are written with using these LLMs now. It makes it much harder to be critical of your sources, because they're all coming from a unnamed, proprietary LLM with no information about who owns it or the training data. At least before, I could look up the user or check out their other articles, now every article is randomly generated from some unknown prompt.

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[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever other llm and I have seen more and more small association using generative ai to make their posters instead of working with artist or doing it themselves.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Is this because LLMs are getting better, or because search engines are getting worse?

Because they are definitely getting worse. I get redirected to a brand new slopsite daily.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.

Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding "site:reddit.com" to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the research can be pretty cool. Every implementation has been kinda horrible.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The research/tinkerer community overwhelmingly agrees. They were making fun of Tech Bros before chatbots blew up.

[–] foliumcreations@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I have made the conscious decision to try and not refer to it as AI, but predictive LLM or generative mimic models, to better reflect what they are. If we all manage to change our vernacular, perhaps we can make them silgtly less attractive to use for everything. Some might even feel less inclined to brag about using them for all their work.

Other options might be unethical guessing machines, deceptive echo models, or the classic from Wh40k Abominable Intelligence.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then everyone clapped... Blah, blah, blah.

And, I do not like AI.

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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 21 points 1 month ago

this post is real✅ and has been fact checked by true american patriots✅

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then everyone in class stood up and clapped.

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[–] chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

This absolutely did not happen.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

That was December 2024.

McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost the sales of the highly addictive drug OxyContin, according to court papers filed in Virginia on Friday.

Drug dealer must sell drugs.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] phx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the same as the crypto-blockchain-NFT bullshit. A bunch of idiots with too much money put down on it, then when it doesn't become the hit they expect they start with the propaganda about how it's the greatest thing, and then when THAT fails they just take away other choices or try to cram it into everything anyhow

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