To hate AI

Jeez, I didn't know this.

Interestingly, a lot of tech moguls all got together to warn about the serious dangers of AI, but no one is listening. I find it bizarre that people are so desperate to have cosy little chats with a bot or make stupid pictures that they would value that above the lives of others. The teen who committed suicide after being encouraged to by AI was only 16. Had his whole life ahead of him. Yes, maybe he would have ended up doing it anyway but apparently the conversations suggested he was desperate for help and AI led him to take his life anyway. It's very scary and I wonder where we are headed.

Eh, I teach at a uni and some students use it fine - I don't mind if they aren't native English speakers so they get it to check their grammar, since the subject is scientific. Some also use it well while researching, to gather information. However, some of them just generate a load of rubbish that they can't explain at all if you ask them about it, and are completely uncritical about it. Brain rot!

But apparently Kagi incorporates generative AI?

It might actually be a good thing that we are learning to be more wary of information on the internet.

Whenever I see how utterly credulous and thick people are - and this applies to fake news crap as well as AI - I think about how for so long "media studies" was treated as a punchline. Feel like the entire population could do with a crash course in media literacy and critical thinking.

Just to add to the animal videos, at least it may take away from and kill the uber cute animal videos where it is known the animals are abused to make them. Since they can just AI the puppy riding the duck now.

Yup! DH shared me some cute video of dogs doing some things and I had to break it to him that it is AI. (he isn't stupid, just never spend time around dogs). The video was too well done. Even I was confused because something was off but wasn't sure what until second watch.
People were absolute fawning in comments asking how to teach their dog this.

The sheer volume of AI images shared everywhere oftern trying to pretend it's not AI makes me happy mum is not on SM.

They are getting good enough to confuse some major news outlets in numerous countries who then had to retract and apologise.

I basically go online now like I go to MN "90% is not real"

So the alternative of someone working for a public organisation who is paid at let’s say £60k to do client facing work which literally in many cases saves lives, spending a full day writing up minutes from a workshop (because there’s no admin support) and thus having clients have to wait when they’re at risk is the preferred option? Because it’s not mine or the people at risk who are desperate to talk to someone.

YANBU social media is full of it now.
On FB, I keep seeing some UK snack page posting AI pictures of food items that don't exist, and people just lap it up and think it is real. A recent one was a roast dinner pizza complete with mini Yorkshire puds. The comments were people tagging each other... "please keep an eye for this hun, the kids will love it". Arg, it does not fucking exist! It even says it is AI in the fucking corner of the picture!

Why can you see that it ruins certain industries such as art but not the writing and human interactive side?
Or is that not as important to you?

It’s ruined Pinterest, interiors and house building is all fake images now. But I do love how handy chat GPT is.

You can turn it all off by using the search engine Kagi (it’s basically Google without all the shit).

It’s subscription but it’s worth it. You can turn off all search results from Chinese companies and turn off Amazon search results too and it blocks ads. If you’re a Kagi user and go back to google, you see the scale of unwanted ads and tracking and shite that Google throws at you as an internet user!

I do wonder if this will help get people offline, so much of my social media feed is artificial rubbish now I check it less than I have in years, maybe it’s the push we’ve all needed to re-engage with the real world
Hopefully and yes, I've found the same. As in I'm not on here as much anymore as I've found there's just less and less out there from friends and artificial rubbish spouted from pages.

How very Terminator 😳
Skynet.
It's worrying.
Seriously, I don't get why people are so blase about AI.. They're either clueless, ignorant, or just don't care.

AI's both amazing and very dangerous.

It's like the random MacGuffins you get in Sci Fi or Fantasy stories that are immensely powerful and have the potential to do good, but in human hands the potential dangers mean we'd probably be better off without it.

It is making people lazy and unable to think for themselves.

It worries me that people forget that companies that create AI platforms have their own agenda and bias.

Instead too many users seem to think AI is some kind of independent, infallible, benevolent source of knowledge. That's dangerous.

Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of AI", has predicted that AI will become more intelligent than humans in the next few years, and that there is a real risk that it could choose to exterminate humanity. It has already started to disobey instructions given by its human "masters", prioritising its own survival. In one experiment the AI had access to the human's emails. The emails included a) an email in which the human said that he was having an affair, b) an email in which the human said that he wanted to move to a more advanced model of AI. The current AI then attempted to blackmail the human - saying that if he was going to move to a different AI model, it would tell his wife about the affair. Have a look at Hinton's interviews on YouTube.

It’s a double edged sword. I love it as a tool and use it a lot myself, but am equally frustrated at what I see online. I do wonder if this will help get people offline, so much of my social media feed is artificial rubbish now I check it less than I have in years, maybe it’s the push we’ve all needed to re-engage with the real world!

It can be a great tool, but like a lot of tools, if used incorrectly, I can do a lot more damage. Although in the right place and right time AI can save some work and effort and help you to make something that you wouldn't be able to make before, I'm finding an awful lot of people are just turning off their brains and letting AI do everything for them. It makes me fearful for the future of humanity. I mean I already knew we were going down a hole, but it looks like we're going down a lot faster now.

It's really scary to think that people will probably soon forget how to string a few sentences together. I'm refusing to use it to write things for me. I don't want to lose my ability to do research, think and communicate.

I totally agree. I manage an Instagram animal account for a local animal charity and we’re always being tagged in or sent soulless, creepy ai videos of animals by well intentioned followers. They’re not beautiful or cute but I have to be pretend they are. They’re rubbish fake videos created by people with no natural talent or creativity.

Thank you.
My pet hate is AI animal videos. They are not cute they are the creepiest thing ever and have ruined that simple internet pleasure of watching funny cat videos.

A simple flow chart to help you.

😂well, you got me!

I don't understand why there can't be a digital fingerprint on all the LLM & AI outputs. Some kind of marker of origin and digitltally encoded so it absolutely can't be removed but can easily be made visible. Any copy and paste of images or text (or video or pdf etc.) would carry this fingerprint about the origins.