To be utterly sick of AI already

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Logged on to my work email this morning to find that Google have added an AI assistant called Gemini, which pops up like a dependent puppy at every turn. It's monumentally annoying and, as far as I can see, completely useless. I contacted our IT dept and it turns out Google are charging us an extra £2 per month per user for this total waste of electricity, with no option to opt out. What's more, individual users don't have the option to switch it off, it's a global setting for the company account.

Meanwhile every online space has been invaded by AI bots, search results are polluted by pointless AI summaries, and our creative industries are being annihilated by generative AI slop. We were told AI would make our lives better, but so far the net effect is almost entirely negative as far as I can see.

AIBU to hate it and wish it would go away?

ChatGPT is dreadful. It just returns one wrong answer after another.

I really hope we never get a Mumsnet AI.

I think I’m in love with you! I have to do a self assessment this weekend. Will save me loads of time! Thanks for the tip.

This was when I first began to notice it- My brother and I collect the same type of items, and he mentioned the flowery over the top insincere language used- So lazy!

An honest description is much better, listing damage if any ,or restoration and item measurements are all one needs.

I'm a copywriter by trade, and a couple of years ago there was a lot of fear that AI would make us all surplus to requirement. However, now I think the novelty value has worn off, and AI generated text is so commonplace (and so utterly rubbish and easy to spot) that there are a growing number of businesses suddenly realising and appreciating the value of human written content.

Yes. There was a thread not so long ago about A1 replacing translators and interpreters. I would be interested to know how A1 would differentiate between say:
1.Thank you for standing up for me last night.
2 Thanks a bunch for standing me up last night.

Maybe I’m wrong and A1 would have no difficulty differentiating between the two sentences.

Sounds interesting, any chance of a link @Barbadossunset ?

AI sounds like good slave but bad master territory.

We are using it to translate content, we are not charging, but instead asking clients for feedback on any inconsistencies. It's working very well, we have had some feedback regarding inaccurate translations, but very few.

If the initial language is clear and unambiguous the translation is good. We are all using this already. Consider WhatsApp instant translation tool. It's improving exponentially, all the time. It learns via the feedback.

Do you have a source for this info. I know its uses power for AI but where are getting the water from?

I think the future of it is frightening.

One of my DHs favourite podcasts featured an example of how AI can be very misleading and scary when they played a 5 minute clip of a 100% AI voiced podcast discussing their own podcast. It was so real it was scary. I would never have known it was two AI voices talking if they hadn't told us beforehand.

To think we might not know if we are listening to real human or a robot unless we can't see them. Terrifying.

This is just the beginning.

I'm glad it saves you times on blogs, but I'll share this mantra from the copywriting sector as a note of caution.

'If you can't be bothered to write something, how can you expect anyone else to be bothered to read it?'

I will find a link later. It uses tons of clean water to cool the processors. It can't use sea water because it is too coerosive. It is seriously depleting the wster tabke in dry parts of the States that are already under strain.

Saw this on the BBC on AI today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5ggew08eyo

Just tried putting them through deepl to translate into my native language and nope, couldn't tell the difference.

How do you check accuracy if you don't know the other language well enough to need a translation?

We'll be looking back at this thread in 10 years time aghast at how naive we all were 'back then'.

Your definition of AI is very narrow here, you mean chat bots.

AI is the reason we’re diagnosing cancer faster than ever today. It’s responsible for a lot of incredible, life changing things.

There are AI tools to make the speakers accent sound American, Irish, English, Australian etc, you can also instantly translate, and you can also change the mouth movements to make the translated voice match the movement of the face to the target language. Fascinating!!

It s being regulated, you must notify the viewer the speaker voice is AI generated. It's called revoicing.

YANBU

@AuxArmesCitoyens I’m sorry - I can’t remember if the thread was 6 weeks ago or 6 months ago.
I’ll have a look later on search.

AI for medical purposes is ok. Chatgpt to make shitty pictures of six-legged kittens is not ok. And there is some evidence that ai is deskilling experienced radiographers.

At least pay to get it proofread!! AI isn't as terrible at translating as some people seem to think, but I have definitely seen translations that seem fine as they make sense and are gramatically correct, but when you read the source text, it in fact says something different.

I love it. Summarise lengthy documents in seconds, turn notes into a podcast with co pilot, just put the skills in and ask it to write a reference or covering letter. It can plan teacher lesson resources, quizzes etc and recently wrote me a 5 day itinerary for a trip including the things I wanted to do. It's not going away so time to get on board and embrace it.

Mumsnet is being used by the LLMs to identify female conversation patterns and language use. Most LLMs have been designed by male focused responses and typical male language use. They are trying to re evaluate this by studying massive forums, which are mostly frequented by women.

what a blast from the past.

I actually loved paperclip 📎 😀