Sick of ai being pushed down our collective throats with no choice in the matter.

Humans are utterly determined to convenience themselves out of all meaning.

Look at the introduction of sat nav and the number of drivers that drive into rivers and onto railway tracks because they pit absolute faith in the tech.

I’m sick of arguing that being able to get a 1 page summary of a book or report isn’t “progress”. If 1 page was enough to tell you everything you need to know there wouldn’t be a book/report.

Convo usually goes:

”What did it leave out?”

”Eh?”

”In summarising the (60 page) report into 1 page. What did it leave out?”

”I don’t know.”

”Don’t you think you should know, given you’re using this info to make pretty important corporate decisions?”

”Um, maybe.” <disappears to read report>

Ad infi-fucking-itum……….

Cancers aren’t gendered. They’re inherently linked to biological sex.

I read an excellent (very long) article about what’s really going on behind all the AI fear. In summary it doesn’t do as much mystical shit as all these CEOs are led to believe and the entire trade is based on GPUs. Fascinating stuff.

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

Saying you don’t like/ want/ won’t use /will avoid AI is like King Canute saying he will stop the tide. I think it’s very concerning, but it’s happening. We need regulation but I don’t think anyone with the ability to regulate wants to regulate. Silicon Valley? Trump? Big Tech? Anyone heard of Agentic AI? When different AI systems talk to each other and start doing things. This will happen - I doubt controls will be out in early enough for this to happen sensibly. The EU is trying but its systems are so complex that I think they’re being largely ignored.

I have numerous bad experiences of staff on public transport. Some good too. Which means there is no guarantee. If I research myself I can take my time, and follow up questions, and I don’t get someone rude.

Is nearly always rather google something myself than ask someone. Because then I have to think how to frame it in a question, make sure I am polite enough, possibly make small talk. Then judge if I can add follow up questions. I’m ND and all of this is very hard.

I don’t disagree. But I’m talking about specific studies in detection of certain cancers. Some of which are gendered and are based on tiny changes in scan images that humans don’t notice.

AI is inherently sexist right now.

YANBU, not all progress results in actual progress for the common good. It often just progresses the financial interests of the people involved.

I’m in the public transport industry and a customer actually said before asking me a question, he asked ChatGPT instead. It gave him the wrong information.

i’m stood around not busy and he would rather ask a computer brain, than a real one? No wonder so many people are losing their social skills.

I’m not senior enough to make that decision. And it isn’t enough fora whole other job. It’s stuff like more quickly analysing data in spreadsheets for me (or just finding the right row). It still needs me to input the correct stuff. Or rewording an email to sound better. Especially as I occasionally have to do some marketing in my job, but don’t have that background. But not often enough that it needs a whole other job.

AI in healthcare will be revolutionary. AI is so much better at diagnosing some cancers at much earlier times than humans. It doesn’t remove humans, you still need them to take the scans and operate the AI.

I love co-pilot and use it all the time at work, saves me loads of time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_artificial_intelligence

I dont really understand the climate thing, how is it any different to using the internet generally?

Let's not forget the massive impact Ai has to the environment. I don't know stats or details its something I've heard anecdotally. Why waste money battling climate change when introducing something that is so damaging, and will result in unemployment and no doubt a massive MH situation. I literally can't think of anything more stupid or damaging.

The worst part for me is I don't even know how to avoid it because it's been put into my life without my consent or control. It just popped up on WhatsApp one day, I can't delete this as it's used for so many things especially kids activities. It popped up on Google too so I got rid of Google and use Ecosia now as a search engine. It's probably on lots of other apps but the only way of avoiding it is to stop using tech. Which by the way I wouldn't care about but my bank will no longer allow me do anything without a smartphone and app, and there are many many other aspects of my life that I need tech for that I never instigated in the first place. I feel like I don't have much free will anymore, like I'm constantly being manipulated by a small number of US companies that i do not trust

One wrong thing on the internet is then re created a million times as 'the answer'.

Ive been trying to find the equivalent of vanilla bean paste to a vanilla pod. The AI resiult came up first and that differs from some other answers. But the AI answer is repeated quite a lot.

We are sleep walking into AI-dependency the same way we slept-walked into dependency on plastic products everywhere.

On a personal level, I would be Flipping delighted if Meta stopped adding AI suggestions to each group post. If I could merely have the option to turn it OFF. Most especially inappropriate was the "What are the weight loss secrets of XX?" when the Facebook story was about XX (female winner of big cycle race) having reached a body fat % around 8% and what scary things that level of calorie restriction meant for women's sport.

Most people are NOT going to learn to use AI in a clever useful positive way. They will NOT hone their prompts to use AI cleverly to enhance what they could have achieved without AI. Most people are going to lazily use LLMs (just one type of AI) to avoid honing their own skills at basic tasks like ... writing polite emails, drafting job cover letters, and generating half-hallucinated summaries of information about a specific topic. This level of use will inspire many to say "I just can't imagine coping without it..."

Ah, one of my special interests. (Polishes Luddite badge with pride).

Seriously though, things like psychosis developing in people encouraged to use ChatGPT for "therapy" should be flagged as a five alarm fire for a start, never mind the dumbing down, misinformation, de-skilling, impact on employment and environmental impact.

Too many bad actors, too easy to manipulate and scam with the tech we currently have, and the general rule of thumb is that anything we are encouraged access to is ten - 15 years behind what the tech bros and the military are developing, because novel ways if surveillance, controlling and killing people attracts plenty of funding from governments......

T2 was not supposed to be a documentary, and 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

But here we are eh?

I have never to my knowledge used AI. I wouldn’t know how to use ChatGPT and I don’t want to Google in case it’s very easy.

I have copy editor friends and photographer friends who are out of work now as a result, translators who have had to sell their houses as their income is down 70%.

I wouldn’t normally be pro UBI but these friends can’t get a job at Aldi or coop as there aren’t enough jobs. They moved out of London as they couldn’t afford to live there, they work from home as they couldn’t afford childcare, they now can’t do that so they’re looking for jobs anywhere (pubs, supermarkets, cleaning work) and there’s nothing).

So far it’s “them” but it WILL be an “us”. Luckily I’m sure Labour will be really up for a UBI. They are such big fans of the WFA.

I think AI is ok, in its place. But we need to remember that it's just a large
Language Model, ie it knows a lot of words And has "learned" which words usually come after which other words.

So it knows a lot of words but that is not intelligence. And it's not experience. All it knows is words.

So id be happy to have AI collate all my chronic illnesses and alert the doctor to the fact that one drug I'm taking for one of them may be contributing to an increase in symptoms of another illness.

I wouldn't trust AI to diagnose, for example, anxiety. Because that would need someone with life experience and empathy to understand what the best course of action is right for me

There was an article in The Guardian today about how Chat GPT suggested the UK government pay £2bn for UK citizens to have access to the premium version! Apparently the minister regarded it as not a serious suggestion. I would have been fuming had they spent that money! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I think it's insane to deskill ourselves. Obviously I wonder what jobs will be left for humans to do in a few decades' time, but even if somehow things change so we don't have to have jobs and everyone has enough, I just wonder what exactly we're going to be doing with our brains once we've outsourced everything from writing a letter to carrying out open heart surgery to giving a friend a shoulder to cry on to AI. I'm not saying that AI doesn't have valid technical or medical applications but I really don't think that these are skills that we should lose, and we obviously will if we're not very careful about how and when AI is used.