I have begun relying on AI and I don’t know how I feel about it.

[Tusktusk]

So far this month I have used AI to:

Analyse my colours (thanks MN) and suggest outfits

Create a menu of packed lunches around my dietary requirements and preferences, complete with a shopping list

Plan a holiday itinerary

Save me hours and hours of work and stress by suggesting really useful ways to overcome very particular work difficulties, having been thrown into an out of my comfort zone situation. I have used AI for this on a daily basis this week

Tonight, instead of posting my current family dilemma on mumsnet I chatted about it with Claude. The responses were really good. Wise, thoughtful, non judgemental, practical, understanding… like the best mumsnetters.

Am I starting to rely on it too much?

What have you been using it for?

And you trust it to tell you? How can it? It is not.sentient. it is pulling strings of words out of its arse.

I mean, do you trust it when it makes up obvious disprovable bollocks like Jane Austen and Mary Shelley were sisters? How can you possibly trust it to tell the truth about stuff you don't know?

Well, I'm going to say it again - you do realise that Justine has licensed an AI model to ingest all the info on Mumsnet, to process it in ways unknown yet?

We used it at Mumsnet to build MumsGPT, which uncovers and summarises what parents are thinking about – everything from beauty trends to supermarkets to politicians – and we licensed OpenAI’s API (application programming interface) to build it.

AI could be an existential threat to publishers – that’s why Mumsnet is fighting back | Justine Roberts | The Guardian

I'm facing a very difficult situation at work and AI has been wonderful in helping me come up with a strategy and take back some feeling of control. And it just found me the perfect haircut.

Oh well, if it has found you the perfect haircut, that totally makes up for the deaths by fake mushroom ID and rhe ai deepfake nudes of public figures

You do realise that all those things were done on computers? Should we be banning them too?

Well it's too late for that, obviously, and this is another branch of the argument. We are reliant on digital systems for everything, from banking, to communication, to organising healthcare, with little in the way of back up. These systems can be hacked and manipulated, and with the laudable goal of being environmentally friendly with little in the way of paper back up of documents unless you insist which elicits much huffing and eye rolling, all manner of issues would ensue if you were trying to prove something, or if something has been doctored.

If hospital technology goes down, even for as little as three hours, over 80% of it's function stops. That means admittance, discharge, prescriptions and record keeping. I find that incredibly worrying.

Can you imagine a future world where our digital systems go down, and without access to their AI support a significant number of people wouldn't be able to function? Because that's where we're potentially heading. It could have similar psychological effects to bereavement.

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If hospital technology goes down, even for as little as three hours, over 80% of it's function stops. That means admittance, discharge, prescriptions and record keeping. I find that incredibly worrying.

A bit like evenings, weekends and bank holidays then!

Not remotely similar, and you're being tiresome. There's a need for discussion around this - and not with "Claude".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/spotify-google-down-outage-internet-b2769135.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5OIvj1boqGYLyZrQYRqueBMFcCeSMqlLSzB-wpOCqKcYYv25SEHQYizDirjw_aem_lfPiUVCowcUQBVQMPx6wgw#Echobox=1749755893

Hmm, now what was I just saying? ......

before there was deep fake Ai there was photoshop to do similar etc how is that any different ?

obviously its wrong on either program

the point i would guess its like why invent the kindle when we have books etc its to speed up knowledge and understanding at a lot faster rate.

eg the Ai = a powerful supercomputer running simulations or working out eg scientific questions

vs a single scientist that could take years

its either the betterent of society from advancing technology etc alot faster or its another way to make profits by inventing new items due to Ai speeding it all up

true but i do remember wikipedia being the old demon before AI

What is the point of making knowledge faster but less reliable? Are you going to use the instantly generated AI field mushroom guide that might just poison you?

We cautioned kids against relying on wikipedia back in the day, not build it into the classroom and everyday software without asking.

The government don’t give a shit about what the general public think. They’re ploughing on an ahead to the detriment of humanity regardless.

For anyone wirh admin/support roles in education and civil service etc your jobs will likely be obsolete in a few years. Anything to save money. Yet so many people think ai is the best thing since sliced bread.

So I saw the news about the air crash in India last night - awful. Absolutely awful.

And equally awful was seeing stories about various victims and their families, and feeling the need to just check multiple sources in case AI had manufactured them. After Southport, and the Liverpool car incident, I believe nothing until I can verify it. The loss of faith in the integrity of reporting is a direct result of AI bollocks for me. And it's so dangerous.

I use chat got a lot but recently I've noticed multiple hallucinations and errors. In the last day it gave me very bad relationship advice based on data sets I gave it but it was hallucinating thisendate sets constantly. I had to ask it to source every white. Even when I instructed it not to hallucinate it would come back immediately and agree and then go back to hallucinating once more. This morning it's a simple weight conversion incorrectly and when I had a conversation with it to find out why (after some chat gpt self flaggelation and apology) it said it was because it was trained predominantly on us information.

I also got a brilliantly ractfuk letter back from an organisation the other day and felt cross that the mark of ai was all over it (I felt the prompt was sound apologetic without admitting liability and exit this relationship on good terms). Her boss wrote to me afterwards and even shorter note but it was so clearly written by him and no AI and it made such a difference to the way I felt about the indtututuon.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-conversations/

Bloody hell. Nothing is sacred.

Ai generated car show review - nothing is real

the point i would guess its like why invent the kindle when we have books etc

AI is nothing like a Kindle. A Kindle is just a reading device for existing texts. It doesn't generate content.

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