gen x here. I still refuse cookies. I also refuse AI.
most the people I see promoting AI are millennials and gen z.
๐คท whatever though, nobody will listen to me anyway.
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I'm gen x or millennial depends who you ask. Ai is a tool nothing more. No I don't five it access to anything but have I used it to write code for me definitely. I hated it but it does have uses. And that is the rub could I learn code to change ddns settings from a unified gateway when my external ip address changes. Or have my server change firewall rules on unifi when it address changes or make a local backup solution for unifi. No I don't have the time. Is the code safe who cares it never sees the light of day and does what it is supposed to and instead if taking days it took hours.
What generation is that???
just remember we live in a society
Is it that bad? I see there are people giving full access to AI but I always thought it wasn't so much to refer to it as "a generation".
It's very much not a generational thing. More gen alpha might use AI because they're young and keep up with trends more, but there's still plenty that denounce it and plenty of boomers who accept it.
More gen alpha might use AI because they're young and keep up with trends more
That's not entirely true. There are cases where gen alpha students revolted against AI usage. One of the incidents was about the usage of Chromebooks which forced students to use AI - bottom line is, people where upset.
Literally didn't read the rest of my sentence.
there's still plenty that denounce it
You're arguing my point for me that it's not a generational thing
Treat it as an accompanying argument rather than arguing a point for your sake. Its just a different perspective exceplifying the point by focusing on the impacted group.
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KIDS THESE DAYS, AMIRITE?
It has been interesting to me to hear tech professionals talk about giving AI Agents access to their desktops, and I suppose it's just the next step after people gave everything over to voice assistants.
I've just heard way too many stories of GenAI and LLM products screwing things up in a major way to ever be comfortable with that and never really got into smart home technology on the assumption (now proven correct) that the devices snoop on their users. I have a smart phone but generally keep it in a faraday bag.
In theory you can run it 100%local if you have a big gpu
very deep, now spray paint it on a wall and take a picture for extra aura
Or use AI to generate a picture of a spraypainted wall.
Its because we thought r2d2 was cool and we all secretly want a robot friend.