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?

I was reading a substack article a out the author’s preferred magazines so I googled ‘niche magazines’ and this was AI’s selection:

MacGuffin: A magazine that focuses on under-appreciated objects
Little White Lies: A magazine that focuses on film criticism
The Pitchfork Review: A quarterly magazine that focuses on music
Vogue: A magazine that focuses on fashion, beauty, and lifestyle
Harper's Bazaar: A magazine that focuses on fashion, beauty, and lifestyle

Now, the first 3 are niche I suppose, but Vogue and Harper’s aren’t what I’d describe as niche.

Where we have in house native language speakers, we ask them to proof read it/watch it.

Also the content is usually presented as short videos with the words spoken appearing on the screen. I don't know if the written and spoken word duplication helps to ensure accuracy. It's also business content (formal). Anything other than the English language content is offered as information only and we don't charge for the translated content, if customers want the free translations, we share them with no guarantees as to accuracy, however they generally are accurate. We Havnt used it for DEI content or anything that's overly focused on gender or potential for political incorrectness.

I think ai art is morally wrong because it is basically plagiarism on a giant scale. I have written books that my publisher has sold to the LLMs without my knowledge ot permission and I haven't seen a penny off the back of it.

It’ll be helpful when HMRC integrate AI into their forms to automate everything you’ve described and help make our lives easier by simplifying the whole process

Good evening how may I help with your enquiry?

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Reminds me of the Microsoft paper clip about 25 years ago. Was so difficult to get rid off and drove us all bonkers.

Honestly, different models have different strengths and it is hard to prompt them effectively, but they can produce fantastic output when used well.

You just triggered me. Very traumatic.

That's my Dad that is!

The majority of my life I’ve worked in music and music production, now tools are available to basically… create an AI band.

Although it’s impressive, im
not sure this will replace the most appealing, popular artists, vocalists (ai can sing now) and bands people want to listen to; something is missing and I think people hear that in a subliminal way. Same goes for art, books.

@AIBotAtYourService wonder what I will have nightmares about tonight...

With things like Gemini, email reading, minute writing etc I have massive FMO. But I find it easier just to read my own frickin emails etc 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
Meeting minute writing? If I write it I get to decide the overall tone and details towards my own agenda and spin 🤣🤣

AI is prolixity in overdrive.

I prefer to receive bullet points far quicker to process.

Don't want profuse thanks and pleasantries to do my day to day job.

These AI assistants are just the next gen shitty animated paperclip. Folk will catch on once the novelty passes, and we’ll get on with our lives

Do you actually think that?

I reckon plenty of people said that about the TV. And then the internet. Not exactly novelties that passed 😂

AI is built into nearly everything now. But really it's still in its infancy. It will get better, much much better...but it will never go, not now. It has too much potential, has had too much money ploughed into it, so many possibilities for saving and making money.

It's here to stay, probably until it kills us all.

I do sometimes still expect the paperclip to appear when I'm working in Word, especially if I start to write a letter.

Oh how I miss Clippy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_uCbKoG5A&t=8s&pp=2AEIkAIB

Same here - AI-generated stuff has no soul.

It's here to stay, probably until it kills us all

Watched terminator 2 with ds the other night. What a film!

@MNHQ I think most people are trying to just have a conversation about this; no need to flag posts so often, imho.

We are just at the cusp of what it can do. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

Word now has some annoying AI shit on it which I can't make go away and just keeps wanting to write for me!

Pissing me off

Preach.
Totally agree.
Use it for huge data analysis that humans can't do. Absolutely do not use it for art, writing and pretty much anything else.

I genuinely think it's going to solve the climate crisis, it's going into overdrive over the next 18 months. It's still learning, regulation is currently being applied. It's going to improve exponentially in the near future.

There are people in the US not paying into their pension funds any further as they think AI will change the world so much the current investment strategies will be obsolete.

@AIBotAtYourService I was an advanced excel user and clippy made the tasks take longer and it made such stupid suggestions

this is a great example of how the average Joe will not find the took useful, but moan about it as they don’t understand it

AI can be amazing for many things, but you need to know how to use it and have a reason to use it

You can turn it off - I did on mine today. I think it’s under options?