To hate AI

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Is anything true these days .
Newspaper stories , TV reports , adverts , photographs and now my blessed computer has decided its using AI on my pages .
Does anyone else feel it stresses them out , trying to decipher truth from Fiction , (or Lies ...... as they would have been called in the past )
Am I being unreasonable ?

That is equally depressing and terrifying at the same time.

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There's no words. That's actually sad

On the whole I think the people who won't use it are the same types of people who preferred to keep using a typewriter when word processing first came out.

It is just a tool - just like excel. You still need to know what promotes to put in and how to interpret the outcome.

Ai "singer" topped some charts recently.
It's requiring quite a lots of brain power now to see what's ai and what's not imho.
As pp said. It ruined internet.

It’s nothing remotely like a typewriter/excel.

Only in the sense it's so much more powerful. I can do in a day would previously would have taken a week.

Well if you’re employed you probably won’t be for long then!

I'm an IT professional with over 20 years of experience and, bar a few very specific use cases, I firmly believe that unregulated AI is the single most dangerous thing conceived by humans since the nuclear bomb.

The man that was arrested for breaking into Windsor Castle to try and kill the queen was being encouraged by an AI chat bot www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/ai-chatbot-encouraged-man-who-planned-to-kill-queen-court-told

AI Psychosis is a very real thing and is going to cause a lot of issues in the future.

Another reason I can't stand it.
It's killing human creativity.

I use it at work, I can do a job which usually takes a couple of hours in less than a minute. E.g. writing up notes and theming them, writing meeting minutes etc. so in my opinion, YABU to hate it, but you’re not U to be concerned about how some people use it.

AI slop has already made countless copywriters and artists redundant, with people boasting about how it "saves so much time".

How is this a good thing? We're rapidly sleepwalking into a world where nobody has the ability to do anything without relying on an AI - which they don't even understand how it works - to do it for them.

What this does is allow employees to do the more technical / specialist work because time spent doing basic admin is reduced. This improves the quality and efficiency of the work because people can focus their brains where the results / outcomes are.

Keep telling yourself that

Add -ai to all of your searches to turn it off. Or add "fuck", that works as well.

Which, as we are seeing, is not actually what is happening.

What is happening is that businesses are laying off highly trained and skilled people because they think that AI can replace them, regardless of the slop the AI comes out with.

I now add -ai to every Google search, because AI summaries are vaguely irritating, usually inaccurate, and often pointless (if I was looking for a basic definition of what I’d googled I’d search the term and ‘definition’ - but even then I wouldn’t trust information provided by AI!)

Having copilot pop up on every new word document is annoying; I hate that it’s immediately there offering to write on your behalf, and it doesn’t even work particularly well. I tried the summarise feature out of interest once, just to see what it would do with my notes, and it generated a very fluently written page of absolute nonsense, with all traces of my voice erased.

Frightening that so many people put so much trust in ChatGPT, too. I know it looks like there are links backing up a summary created from online sources…but those links are often to pages that don’t mention the information it used them as a reference for. And it’s bloody obvious when it’s been used to write a post on here, even when the em dashes have been removed.

I find it very useful

It's pretty terrifying to see people embrace AI so fully and unthinkingly.

We need to be clear about what AI is and is not. What it is not is "intelligence". It is not sentient, it does not analyse, it does not think, it does not care about you.

What it does is puree data and give you the most likely outcomes. It's predictive text on steroids. It doesn't think or analyse to give you the results. If AI was marketed as "large language models" (which is what they are) rather than a phrase designed to connote decades of advanced sci-fi robot situations, people might view it more realistically.

It mostly produces slop for stupid people, obviously. I suppose if you have a huge amount of data you want to process and you're certain of its accuracy, it can be useful. But the minute you feed it anything wrong then the outcome will be wrong. Given the absolute nonsense it's ingesting there isn't much I'd trust to get right. (In my particular field one of our biggest problems is patchy and erratic historic data. AI literally can't help with that.)

It's also worrying that a lot of people don't seem to recognise that in many fields of endeavour the process is the point, not just the outcome. Yes, it can summarise long tomes for you - but the point wasn't to produce a summary, it was to understand the book. By reading it. The summary is the outcome of you understanding the arguments therein, not the goal in and of itself. We read and write and create in order to understand the world, and yes that is difficult sometimes, but skipping that stage to get to a scam summary is abdicating what it means to be human.

From conversations in real life, I find a strong correlation between people who are not very clever and don't enjoy thinking, and people who are AI enthusiasts.

The web was already full of crap; over use of generative AI is just making it worse though. It can have its uses in the more traditional machine learning sense for data analysis but quite honestly I’d be happy for it to go away. Plus the environmental impact is worrying.

in a lot of ways I don’t see AI as any different to any person I have interactions with, I assume that I can be lied to by another human as much as I can be mislead by anything AI produces and therefore I try not to overthink it or view it as any kind of new threat. Not sure if that makes sense but it does to me ! I have always preferred to research anything I’m interested in myself even if from an apparent reputable source.

I use it at work to generate spreadsheet templates and build the formulas in, or I upload data and get it to do calculations for me. In that sense I find it really useful. But I can’t bear AI slop on FB or on here, with posts that are so obviously machine-made. What’s the point?

I'm an author and we're waiting for Amazon to be flooded with AI written books. Yes, they might be readable, but they aren't going to teach you anything about the human condition, because AI doesn't know what it IS to be human. So you'll be reading emotionally driven fiction which plays to all the known tropes and nothing that steps outside the trite norm. 'Twee' is going to run rife.

I don’t mind AI, it’s not perfect and there’s loads of BS floating around. However I must admit I don’t understand some of the controversy, eg AI fake images. What’s the fundamental difference between an edited image a human creates vs an AI fake? You should be keeping your wits about you regardless? I just feel that the junky content people criticise, already existed in society.