Can AI just fuck off please?

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I've not been impressed with AI since I asked ChatGPT about noblegiraffe on MN and it told me that I'd voted for Nigel Farage and had right wing views.

But recently, it seems like every bloody thing has got AI sat on it. I just looked at my emails and the preview pane instead of showing the first line of the email now has a little précis of the email. I went to twitter to see what is being said about the Trump fiasco and every other tweet now has AI asking questions about the tweet at the bottom of it like a surprise English comprehension test (see below). I open a PDF and it asks me if I want a summary of the document. I went to send a text and it suggested I reply 'Sound's great!'.

NO. You are the modern equivalent of Clippy and no one liked Clippy either. Just Fuck Off.

DDG's results for pretty much any topic are all really recent links, usually to someone selling me something. It royally pisses me off.

Example: a recent thread about fitting door locks to toddlers' bedrooms contained a joke about swaddling the child and hanging him from a hook on the wall. I searched for "swaddle baby and hang from a hook", not understanding the reference. Google gave me an explanation of a historic child "care" practice referenced in the joke as the first result. DDG didn't, not even multiple pages down.

I cannot write essay-type documents, including application letters. I have to use ChatGPT to help with that. I wrote my CV 100% myself because I can use lots of headings and bullets in my CV and I don't have to show an enthusiasm that I am incapable of feeling in my CV.

this is the puzzlement i have some companies want you to fill out pages of an application form then as a thank you some times you dont hear a thing from them

yes some allow you to just submit a cv, but how is aI any different than human written, its not like trying to write a love letter, the bottom line is to sell your skills and even if AI rewrites it, then you still need to have those skills etc so overall surley its the skill set that matters rather than who originally wrote the cv ?

i always think companies are missing out on good talent just because someone used chatgpt

Haha nope, the ones I see pull in vague links from the job description with lots of fluff and no substance. Eg. JD says you’ll deliver measurable communications to a diverse range of stakeholders. Application will say I can deliver measurable communications to a diverse range of stakeholders. No examples and no effort. I cannot tell if the candidate is any good. If they use AI then edit with personal additions then those I’ll bother with.

ah i see, so its basically them being omg with it, instead of using it wisely and putting time and effort into it then teaking parts etc.

all they have done is copy and paste without even asking chat to make it first person etc

its not like trying to write a love letter

I cannot write those either.

It got this right about me:

2. Camping: They shared their dislike for camping, mentioning that they prefer accommodations with room service and a good bar

I buy a lot of antique stuff on eBay and the AI generated descriptions are becoming a joke. The second I see a phrase like “add a touch of elegance” or “elevate your surroundings” I decide that I’m not giving my money to that dickhead seller, especially when I was only reading the description to look for measurements which they haven’t even bothered to provide. If this is the future of humanity, we’re all doomed. (Can you tell I’m a bit pissed off about it!)

Absolutely hate it.
It's everywhere - Facebook / at the top of watssap etc. Can't get rid of it. Hate it hate it hate it.
Never look at the AI results on Google at the top.
Have only every asked it one thing and if got it wrong - to do with some medical guidelines.
Hate that there are so many videos online that now appear to be AI.

I really really wish it had never been invented.

It is going to ruin soooo many people's lives / take away incomes / make mistakes etc.

I heard on the radio the other day that a lot of entry level admin type jobs are disappearing because people are using AI assistants instead.

AI cannot think though. It can do simple automated tasks or write an email for you, but it cannot make decisions so they will always need humans for that.

Why do you think it can't make decisions?

I've heard of scenarios where AI was given a task to complete online and it couldn't do the 'verify you're a human' captcha so it went onto Taskrabbit or whatever and hired a human purely to do the captcha for it so that it could complete the task.

What worries me with AI is that people forget that this is not an independent, all-knowing, never-wrong tool.

It is only as good as the people who programme it and it comes from big corporations who have an agenda.

So basically like the Internet and social media before it you simply cannot believe everything that you read or see.

Also I was reading recently about how we need to remember that most programmers/people involved in developing AI are likely to be men. So again it is likely that a lot of bias is built into AI. That also got me thinking.

I am concerned that so many organisations and people blindly embrace it without thinking of the ethics of it.

There are many potential good uses of AI but blindly following what it says or letting it swallow many people's jobs is not the way to go.

I work for a charity and I was reviewing London Marathon applications recently.

A depressing number of people had used AI to write them, including such beauties as 'I excel in marathon based environments..'

Once you see it, you cant unsee it.

AI terrifies me - I don't think people are fully aware of the implications for many of us job wise, I've been reading about AI agents and what it means for white collar workers. It's similar to the industrial revoloution where people's jobs were just wiped out. Sorry if I sound like a scremonger but I feel like I've been really naive about what it means until really recently.

I excel in marathon-based environments is amazing.

We have all been forbidden to use any form of AI note taking and not allowed to install it on our work laptops because of security risks.

I've been looking for the 'web' tab mentioned upthread, but can't see it on my tablet using chrome, maybe it shows on a laptop?
Anyway, my way to avoid the ai panel at the top of search results is to add
-ai at the end of what I am searching.
Ai has already taken part of my job- the dreaded chatbot.

I’m a professional Cv writer working for an outplacement company helping people who have been made redundant. We’ve just been informed that we are being replaced by AI. It’s so depressing. While a lot of CVs I see only need a few tweaks, I see lots from people (often blue collar workers) who need lots of hand holding, discussion and support to understand their own strengths and how to position their achievements. Ai will be hopeless for them

Also, can you justify your post?
It sounds like you think losing low skilled jobs is fine?
Literally millions of people rely on their low skilled jobs, for money, for self respect, for a part in society.

Training a large language model, such as ChatGPT, uses on average roughly equivalent to the yearly electricity consumption of over 1,000 U.S. households according to University of Washington researchers. More specifically, training ChatGPT used 1.287 gigawatt hours, roughly equivalent to the consumption of 120 US homes for a year.
So that's a massive over exaggeration

DS (software engineer) isn't allowed to use AI at work as it's not secure.

I asked Google a while back what percentage of students resitting A-levels got a higher grade - AI told me 90% which really surprised me. Until I realised there wasn't any data available so it had just taken the information from one particular school website that specialised in students resitting. I've just looked it up again and it has improved the information now to say there's not much information available.

I wouldn't believe everything you read. There was far more to this story than what you've said here. It's not nearly as impressive as that snapshot sounds.

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Thanks for that, but surely once the human has told the AI that this is possible it can use it again independently?

What about the scenario where the AI was told to shut itself down and it didn't?

@AwardGiselePelicotTheNobelPeacePrize Spot on 👍