To be so sick of AI!

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It’s everywhere and it’s awful! On a personal level, taking over my FB feed with nonsense, fake images that are just annoying, irritating platitudes… the first thing you get on an internet search is a load of Ai content scraped from all over so you have no idea what you are reading and can’t begin to credit a source if researching etc. it’s basically theft, as I see many are now petitioning to point out.
And it’s terrifying for what it is likely to do to the jobs market and all sorts of other Black Mirror type things my brain can’t fully imagine but I’ve no doubt are coming. Yesterday my boss had an email from a company with an AI plan to do what I do, explaining all the things they could offer. We all had a good chuckle about it because it totally lost all the nuance of the actual role involved but for many this will become reality. It all feels nightmarish quite frankly. I’m sure there are some good things but struggling to see many. Medical ones come to mind, I suppose. But wanted to rant, so ranting 😂

The new AI feature on strava pissed me off yesterday by telling me that my 3 hour mountain bike ride was a lower effort than usual. I could barely get out of bed this morning I was so stiff.

I find it so cringey when people use ChatGPT to write example letters to schools (as examples on Facebook groups) to complain about something.
It’s American and so all the spelling etc and phrases … well you can tell the person hasn’t written it. It’s embarrassing. I can only imagine students using it would be the same

I am in a creative industry too. I love my job, worked hard to get here, have no experience doing anything else. The fact I am almost certainly going to retrain within the next few years is terrifying to me. I can’t even think of anything else I could do (at least that wouldn’t also be usurped by AI!).

Apart from my personal career concerns I just fundamentally hate the idea of human-created art, writing, music becoming obsolete in favour of hollow, machine-generated stuff. To me the urge to express ourselves in that way is such a key part of what makes us human that it seems utterly self-defeating to outsource it. It’s like we are stripping everything meaningful away from our existences in favour of some short-term sense of convenience.

Having said all that, the value of AI to science and medicine is clearly enormous. We are going to see a pace of progress there the like of which has never been seen before.

I just wish it didn’t come with all the bad stuff.

I've got friends who have started writing their facebook statuses via AI. I noticed it recently, with a friend who isn't the most articulate. She's written a post about her recent house move which was extremely witty and beautifully written. On closer inspection, it was written via AI! 😳😱

AI voices on you tube videos are infuriating.

They mispronounce words, and the pace of speech is strange.

Detestable.

Al creepy images as well- vile. hands all over the place, Al can't get hands right.

My brother has spotted Al Ebay descriptions as well for vintage items.

Dystopian.

In my industry they have a tool that will do everything with 80% accuracy whereas the first year employee will only be 75% accurate. Problem is that you need people who have learnt from their mistakes to be able to identify the AI mistake and how do you get that experience if you rely on the AI. And it is less than 80% when you put in the nuances of the individual client.

on that basis I’m hopeful I will retire before I’m replaced!!

I really like the AI Google search. It’s been so far quite accurate at telling me what I want to know, and easily verifiable by a quick scroll down the page to see that the snippets of reputable sites are saying the same thing.

There have been a couple of times where it has answered the wrong question, but again easily verifiable.

I suppose the downside is that it does require a modicum of critical thinking, and not everyone will apply this. But that’s the same of any Google search.

While technology progression is inevitable and has benefits, the downside is terrifying. We're possibly engineering our own obsolescence. Military use bothers me most. And how clinical decisions affecting humans over write our actual complex humanity. T2 was supposed to be axwirk if fiction, not a documentary. I'm glad I'm old. Not too long living in a world I recognise less and less and feel more and more disconnected with.

What's wrong with that? Her own writing will improve over time as she reads and edits AI content. We don't need to be snobbish, AI can be a great leveller. You could also say that it's the height of laziness to look up information on google, rather than going to the local library or train station, to buy your groceries online rather than from your local store, to drive to school rather than walk, to fly on holiday rather than cycle to the nearest coast. We use the technology that is available.

It’s everywhere ? Really? Don’t think I come across it very much at all. But then I’m not on social media, other than this site.

I'm a member of several crochet groups and the sheer amount of obviously AI, impossibly perfect, 'items' that get shared by people looking for patterns is insane. Not to mention the AI generated patterns that cost money and either don't make sense or don't produce anything like the item in the pictures. I don't get how people can't recognise these obviously computer generated images! I mean just look at it!

I found a great site where you could role play to practice French speaking with an AI. So I did two people deciding what to have for dinner. Its first sentence was “Darling! What do you desire to eat? What can I cook that will satisfy your desire?” So that wasn’t very realistic.

It’s not about the quality of her own writing or about snobbishness of any kind.

It’s about the fact that people thinking they are reading the thoughts and feelings of their friends are actually reading something a machine wrote.

Imagine us all sitting staring at our phones, scrolling through machine-generated status updates with our friends’ names and images attached, posting our own machine-generated status updates. Don’t you find that a bit bleak?

AI bullshit is filling the Internet. Do a Google image search for "baby peacock" and more than half that come up are AI generated pictures that look nothing like a young peacock.

Soon we won't be able to tell what's real or not online. Bad actors will be producing videos of political figures saying/doing immoral things in order to subvert democracy.

We're essentially seeing the beginning of the end of democracy if no one can trust the information they see online

I’ve found this on Google image searches lately. I wanted to see what Christina Hendricks looked like when she was a child as I’d read she was blonde and dyed her hair red, so I googled something like “Christina Hendricks childhood photos” and lots of the results were horrifying AI images 😱

Her own writing will improve over time as she reads and edits AI content

This is also not at all what will happen. In reality people will just completely lose the skill of writing (and other skills that AI replaces). At some point it may be
a minority of people who could even construct a badly-written facebook status update on their own.

I would rather read something grammatically incorrect or a bit inarticulate that actually came from my friend, than a perfect machine-generated post. Wouldn’t anyone?

It's been annoying me too - I downloaded Adobe Acrobat the other day and every time I open it and even when I open a new document or whatever there's a pop up getting in the way, asking if I want to use their AI assistant, no I don't, why does it have to constantly ask me! Maybe I'm a dinosaur.

The Amazon ai is rubbish ime

other problem is the contribution to the climate crisis but using ai to produce cute kitten videos is well worth it.

Google AI overview is trash, no one should be looking at it, scroll down to actual search results.

I've had to give up on working as a self-employed scientific editor because of the development of AI tools that will do a good (not perfect!) job. To be fair, I completely understand that it's better for researchers around the world who just want to publish their work, but it's sad personally as it's something I've worked so hard to build for 10 years.

If it weren't for school and certain groups using FB to communicate, I would have deleted my account by now. Absolutely sick of all the AI posts!

I agree OP, the first result on Google is now AI and so many random articles come up on Facebook which, if you click to read, are totally nonsensical. So many fake photos online too with people commenting without realising they're not genuine. Very worrying.

My Facebook feed was already full of human-generated nonsense and platitudes so I'm not sure I'm that bothered.

AI has destroyed my creative career and is now destroying the way we communicate. I find that people are becoming extremely dull and unspontaneous as they detach from the real world and allow their lives to be dictated by screens. There's no joy in everyday interactions any more and you can't trust anything you read.

I am tired of fighting screens and tired of trying to get an interesting sentence of more than 3 words out of my DC.

Backlash movement or trade union needed for creative and writing professionals. Written by Humans or something.