To hate AI

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elfies · 13/12/2025 12:47

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 ?

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gannett · 14/12/2025 09:20

XenoBitch · 14/12/2025 01:57

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!

Whenever I see how utterly credulous and thick people are - and this applies to fake news crap as well as AI - I think about how for so long "media studies" was treated as a punchline. Feel like the entire population could do with a crash course in media literacy and critical thinking.

SomeOtherUser · 14/12/2025 09:37

It might actually be a good thing that we are learning to be more wary of information on the internet.

Tadpolesinponds · 14/12/2025 11:45

Franjipanl8r · 14/12/2025 01:08

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!

But apparently Kagi incorporates generative AI?

Alisonica · 14/12/2025 11:50

Eh, I teach at a uni and some students use it fine - I don't mind if they aren't native English speakers so they get it to check their grammar, since the subject is scientific. Some also use it well while researching, to gather information. However, some of them just generate a load of rubbish that they can't explain at all if you ask them about it, and are completely uncritical about it. Brain rot!

YouAreIn · 15/12/2025 11:16

weaselpatrol · 13/12/2025 15:05

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

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Jeez, I didn't know this.

Interestingly, a lot of tech moguls all got together to warn about the serious dangers of AI, but no one is listening. I find it bizarre that people are so desperate to have cosy little chats with a bot or make stupid pictures that they would value that above the lives of others. The teen who committed suicide after being encouraged to by AI was only 16. Had his whole life ahead of him. Yes, maybe he would have ended up doing it anyway but apparently the conversations suggested he was desperate for help and AI led him to take his life anyway. It's very scary and I wonder where we are headed.

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