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 sounds concerning.

It can't do anything original (because it doesn't think).

The depressing aspect of its popularity is that it shows us how most people really don't care for quality or originality, even in the arts.

Business which rely on it are stifling their own innovation, though.

I assume that at some point non-AI services will come at a price. A human therapist, a human accountant, a human lawyer. (Maybe even human artists?!)

Those who can will pay for superior human services. Those who can't will use AI slop.

I understand the concerns and the environmental impact etc, and I guess I also lean towards a pessimistic view of it, but my social media experience is still that which I choose to look at, largely from friends and groups I'm connected with. I don't feel invaded by AI content.

There are instructions here exactly how to do that, thank goodness.

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-google-3445771/

I have almost entirely negative experiences of AI & LLMs.
I guess is ok as customer service chatbots.
I don't know if I object to LLMs in principle but I Definitely object to them in reality.

I'm a research scientist... Facebook lately feeds me ads for products that will write a literature review using "real not halluncinated!" references, by simply engineering prompts. These are products being marketed to University students to get their assignments done. <sigh>

A (scientific) journal editor says he's being inundated with LLM-generated submissions.

I don't understand why there can't be a digital fingerprint on all the LLM & AI outputs. Some kind of marker of origin and digitltally encoded so it absolutely can't be removed but can easily be made visible. Any copy and paste of images or text (or video or pdf etc.) would carry this fingerprint about the origins.

A simple flow chart to help you.

😂well, you got me!

Thank you.
My pet hate is AI animal videos. They are not cute they are the creepiest thing ever and have ruined that simple internet pleasure of watching funny cat videos.

I totally agree. I manage an Instagram animal account for a local animal charity and we’re always being tagged in or sent soulless, creepy ai videos of animals by well intentioned followers. They’re not beautiful or cute but I have to be pretend they are. They’re rubbish fake videos created by people with no natural talent or creativity.

It's really scary to think that people will probably soon forget how to string a few sentences together. I'm refusing to use it to write things for me. I don't want to lose my ability to do research, think and communicate.

It can be a great tool, but like a lot of tools, if used incorrectly, I can do a lot more damage. Although in the right place and right time AI can save some work and effort and help you to make something that you wouldn't be able to make before, I'm finding an awful lot of people are just turning off their brains and letting AI do everything for them. It makes me fearful for the future of humanity. I mean I already knew we were going down a hole, but it looks like we're going down a lot faster now.

It’s a double edged sword. I love it as a tool and use it a lot myself, but am equally frustrated at what I see online. I do wonder if this will help get people offline, so much of my social media feed is artificial rubbish now I check it less than I have in years, maybe it’s the push we’ve all needed to re-engage with the real world!

Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of AI", has predicted that AI will become more intelligent than humans in the next few years, and that there is a real risk that it could choose to exterminate humanity. It has already started to disobey instructions given by its human "masters", prioritising its own survival. In one experiment the AI had access to the human's emails. The emails included a) an email in which the human said that he was having an affair, b) an email in which the human said that he wanted to move to a more advanced model of AI. The current AI then attempted to blackmail the human - saying that if he was going to move to a different AI model, it would tell his wife about the affair. Have a look at Hinton's interviews on YouTube.

It is making people lazy and unable to think for themselves.

It worries me that people forget that companies that create AI platforms have their own agenda and bias.

Instead too many users seem to think AI is some kind of independent, infallible, benevolent source of knowledge. That's dangerous.

AI's both amazing and very dangerous.

It's like the random MacGuffins you get in Sci Fi or Fantasy stories that are immensely powerful and have the potential to do good, but in human hands the potential dangers mean we'd probably be better off without it.

How very Terminator 😳
Skynet.
It's worrying.
Seriously, I don't get why people are so blase about AI.. They're either clueless, ignorant, or just don't care.

I do wonder if this will help get people offline, so much of my social media feed is artificial rubbish now I check it less than I have in years, maybe it’s the push we’ve all needed to re-engage with the real world
Hopefully and yes, I've found the same. As in I'm not on here as much anymore as I've found there's just less and less out there from friends and artificial rubbish spouted from pages.

You can turn it all off by using the search engine Kagi (it’s basically Google without all the shit).

It’s subscription but it’s worth it. You can turn off all search results from Chinese companies and turn off Amazon search results too and it blocks ads. If you’re a Kagi user and go back to google, you see the scale of unwanted ads and tracking and shite that Google throws at you as an internet user!

It’s ruined Pinterest, interiors and house building is all fake images now. But I do love how handy chat GPT is.

Why can you see that it ruins certain industries such as art but not the writing and human interactive side?
Or is that not as important to you?

YANBU social media is full of it now.
On FB, I keep seeing some UK snack page posting AI pictures of food items that don't exist, and people just lap it up and think it is real. A recent one was a roast dinner pizza complete with mini Yorkshire puds. The comments were people tagging each other... "please keep an eye for this hun, the kids will love it". Arg, it does not fucking exist! It even says it is AI in the fucking corner of the picture!

So the alternative of someone working for a public organisation who is paid at let’s say £60k to do client facing work which literally in many cases saves lives, spending a full day writing up minutes from a workshop (because there’s no admin support) and thus having clients have to wait when they’re at risk is the preferred option? Because it’s not mine or the people at risk who are desperate to talk to someone.

Yup! DH shared me some cute video of dogs doing some things and I had to break it to him that it is AI. (he isn't stupid, just never spend time around dogs). The video was too well done. Even I was confused because something was off but wasn't sure what until second watch.
People were absolute fawning in comments asking how to teach their dog this.

The sheer volume of AI images shared everywhere oftern trying to pretend it's not AI makes me happy mum is not on SM.

They are getting good enough to confuse some major news outlets in numerous countries who then had to retract and apologise.

I basically go online now like I go to MN "90% is not real"

Just to add to the animal videos, at least it may take away from and kill the uber cute animal videos where it is known the animals are abused to make them. Since they can just AI the puppy riding the duck now.