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Feb 14, 2025
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Bb3bop omg, so scary. The over-reliance is so frightening!!!! I know we're all screen fried and have low attention spans (I struggle with reading too lol) but damn, I am going to TRY.
Feb 14, 2025
I have a massive dislike of most AI LLM’s nowadays, but as someone who works in IT and has to maintain knowledge of Linux/Java/Python/PowerShell I have to push back a small bit.
Despite the numerous ethical problems, megalomaniacal CEO’s and bad threat actors, there is some use for LLM’s like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and DeepSeek. The ONLY thing I have ever used ChatGPT for is coding validation, in other words, Will the script I’ve written run correctly?
For example I was configuring Xowa on my MacBook and needed to make sure this JS script would run: java -Xmx256m -d32 -XstartOnFirstThread -jar /Users/Downloads/User/xowa/xowa_macosx_64.jar
ChatGPT found the issues and provided resolutions that you really can’t find unless you have a substantial knowledge of Java.
I think of it as a way to check my work, not some magical thing that can tell me the answers of everything and anything.
Feb 14, 2025
wakeuplmd totally! I think there's helpful uses for it. As a graphic designer there are a few AI-assisted Photoshop tools that exist now that really helps with workflow (removing or extending backgrounds, for instance).
My real issue just comes when people use it as a search engine or as way to write something. I just think it's lazy! Even for brainstorming I find it problematic—you narrow in too quickly instead of encountering all the things that aren't quite right but make your pursuit richer in the long run. Idk, I just think we lose a lot when we use a cheat code that gets us *right to the point* of something.
Like, if people can't write an email without the assistance of one of these things I'm like....concerned....lol.
Feb 14, 2025
I have tried to be really, really patient with a few specific people I have spoken to who are CONVINCED that these AI programmes are actually more useful than google for certain things - one I hear a lot is providing a brief summary of a wide range of articles on a given topic. But everyone who has talked to me about this has completely failed to convince me:
1) that doing this is better than googling it
2) that the AI is even fit for the purpose they're suggesting using it for
3) that it is worth the horrendous environmental impact of even the most basic requests
There are useful applications for AI that can genuinely be beneficial, but NONE of them are the "flashy" replacements for creativity and critical thinking that get the most buzz, and certainly none of the popular slop machines like ChatGPT are capable of doing the actually useful stuff.
Feb 14, 2025
capybarareverie totally! I think there’s a lot that this powerful automation can assist with. I’m not smart enough to know them but I assume it’s a lot of behind the scene things: not meant for unfettered use by, like, all of humanity lol. also the promise of automation = less work is a proven lie sooooooo idk, all bs to moi!
Feb 14, 2025
What surprises me the most is people using AI for their work and studies. Like choosing their method of career execution!
sniffle AGREE. I gotta say, as a graphic designer, I do think it’s pretty sweet that I don’t have to spend significant time removing the background from an image anymore. That’s pretty sick. But the image generating…it’s bad! And stock websites are now FULL of ai generated imagery. I’d rather go back to fully manual editing instead of having to deal with all the shortcomings.
I take serious issue with it for copy writing, too. Like oh my god if you talk to the robot they you will sound like a robot. also…why are you assisting in the exact thing that people are saying could replace you? It’s weird? lol
Feb 14, 2025
Microsoft releasing a report about how frequent AI use wrecks your cognition should be the reddest of flags, but I don’t think it’s changing anything: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
It’s honestly concerning? It’s crazy that the people who go the hardest for it seem to barely have any awareness of how it actually works. My coworker (who never stops talking about it) asked me for help because the formula it gave her wasn’t working, and it was completely wrong. I’ve heard people reference using it for legal advice??? I went to one of those presentation parties recently and one of the attendees said she had it write stuff for her, like whyyy are you cheating at the optional fun activity?
lobster someone I know used it to write her bridesmaid speech 💀 unholy behavior
Took a whole ethics course about Big Data/AI and it was crazy to see how many students regularly use ChatGPT instead of google.
hoahoahottie and they’re becoming increasingly inseparable!! I’m def guilty of quickly reading that google AI answer that pops up at the top of a search. I hate how it’s being forced on us.
gretafetacheese Same!! You can't help it when it's the first search result! I've tried turning it off but it's impossible which is super frustrating.
It writes deathly boring, shitty copy. Scared to see how much better it’s going to get though.
Why are you using it like a web search? And just accepting and sometimes even *citing* whatever it spits out as truthful? You can pull up the sources it is blending together just as easily
grape fr, I was talking to someone about dating advice and they were like “let me ask *insert AI bot here cuz it wasn’t GPT but w/e* and I was like !?!?!?! we’re doomed
nah i feel this huge!! im like a few years out of ad school and i feel like the kids who are in it right now literally don’t have any skills because they just pop everything they want into adobe firefly and get an image right away. i spent all nighters comping images and am often complimented for the quality of my work, AI just feels so lazy and mistake ridden i really don’t like being ~persuaded~ to check it out
pastramimami don’t even get me started on the lack of aesthetic sense this is all breeding! its awful garbage and there is already _so_ much of it. I’m not too worried about it over taking actual artists or human creativity (because it can’t) but I am disturbed by the amount of people that 1) think it can and 2) seem to want it to
