Aibu - using AI?

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Im using AI for a lot of things and have become very dependent on it. Here are some examples

• putting ingredients in and asking for recipes
• translation
• filtering potentially triggering news stories like the r* academy that I don’t want to google
• Frequently for work
• for general quick questions
• occasionally to rewrite emails/ messages when the situation is sensitive

Aibu to think everyone is using it to this extent? I am using multiple times daily and pay.
yabu - not using it
yanbu - using it

It’s like temu for me, I’d love to try/ use both, but the environmental impact, put with the laziness of them that would switch my brain off (shopping in a shop/ plan ing how to get something at least gets my brain whirring!)

YABU. Have never used it and haven’t found a need to yet.

For those so confident about how wonderful AI is, often with a weird zealotry usually reserved for religion, the security aspects are also a real concern given our entire infrastructure is dependent on digital networking. Imagine Stuxnet on AI steroids.

I see it in the classroom every single day. I've had to restructure my term plan so that an essay that was planned in class and written at home is now done over several lessons, in front of me using printed resources only. Its the only way I can now be sure they have read the information and then processed it to answer the question. ...like they have to in the exam. They were utterly incredulous that I wasn't going to allow laptop use and huffed and puffed their way through it. Next step is to show them how to gather the resources and critically assess what is credible and reliable and what isn't. Its appalling that the message they are now getting is quick and minimal effort = best.

I've noticed the school Newsletter is now written using AI, I don't think it is a very good example to the students. I read on the BBC website that schools in Sweden are returning to books, I think we should follow suit.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/steer_ai_into_delivering_common_good_govts_told/

It's just soulless. Bizarrely, our local Garden Centre was selling loads of AI Artwork.

Interesting read.

The really sad thing about AI for art is that people think that AI produces better art than they could.

But the point of creativity for me is the benefit of the process of creation, not the result.

I don't use it at all. Not to my knowledge at all. I don't feel the need for it, I've literally not come across any situation where I've thought I'd need it. People at work use it for work reasons, but it is always obvious and doesn't come across well

I think as it improves and becomes more intergated maybe everyone will use it, but for now it seems to lead to a lot of badly written materials which have inaccuracies in. I cringe at emails and work materials that are obviously AI produced, I don't think the quality is there yet

Exactly this.

AI art is not art. Art requires creativity and heart, AI has neither. It's just ripping off the work of actual human beings.

I use Claude Code for work - it's scarily good: I can literally give it a rough sketch of a system design, some coding and governance guidelines, and it will code it all up for me - it even writes the documentation and testcases, something that a lot of human developers are rubbish at. All I have to do is review and tweak the output. If it makes mistakes I tell it and it and it takes on board my suggestions, adds them to its governance or skills files, and doesn't make the same mistake again.

What worries me is that I basically don't need any juniors to assist me with my work anymore, it has effectively made graduate hires in tech superfluous. The cost savings have of course been welcomed by our management and stockholders who can only see as far as the end of the next quarter. The fact that it means that the pipeline of talent from graduate hires to senior developers and architects is no more seems not to bother them one jot.

AI is eradicating entry level and mid-tier human jobs in the tech industry and I imagine it will in many other well-paid white collar industries. Accountancy, law, and other business services will be particularly hard hit: why hire 6 trainee solicitors when 1 can do the same work with AI?

I don't use any AI at all in my life outside work - as I deal with cutting-edge technology all day I prefer to live an extremely analogue life outside of work hours. I genuinely can't think of a single way in which it would enhance my non-work life.

The AI has raddled your brain if you think everyone is using it for all the things you do

I don't need it for anything and like a PP i specifically don't click on the top AI results on a search

No one in my real life ever mentions it except occasionally at work

Do you use Google or any other source on the internet? What's the difference?

yanbu

I use it for all sorts on a daily basis and find it to be brilliant. I do double check for accuracy. It's superb for coding if you're into that type of thing.

Genuine question. What's the difference between Claude Code and AI?

Ferrandorsor. How is one bad and not rhe the other?

Does google literally write emails? Write code? Create entire powerpoint presentations, songs, art works? Answer interview questions and write essays?

No, it doesn't.

No, true, it doesn't. But Ai is useful for other things.

I agree. For code we have seen it make us much more productive on the smaller jobs which used to not get done because the effort for utility meant it wasn’t worth it.

My team was already understaffed so this is helping us catch up. And if we don’t use it our job is probably on the line anyway.

Claude code is an AI tool to help write code

a) plenty of these things can be sourced just be googling, which has a much lower environmental impact, and a much lower error rate (you can type in -ai or -u before your search term to avoid the AI summary)

b) the more you use it, the more your brain will atrophy and you'll find you're using AI to think through the most basic of processes or decisions. I've seen it happen to a few of my bright and professional friends. It's terrible.

I think that l will use it more when the accuracy of free AI programs improve. Atm I find myself checking AI which is a waste of time and environmental resources so I stick to Google.

A precursor to AI or still an aid?