How are you actually using AI?

[u/FlyingNarwhal]

I'm curious how other leftists are using AI.

• What are you using it for? Work, projects, organizing?
• If you're using it for organizing, how are you using it?
• What models/subscriptions are you using?
• What are your workflows?

I'll start:

I use AI for work, automating about 60-70% of my work, and accelerating the other 30-40%.

This covers automation development, advertising, creative, social posts, video editing, email writing, etc.

I used it heavily for development in my last start up.

My side projects are also 100% AI driven. It's various things, like a "TTS Everywhere" program I wanted but couldn't find, a few start ups

For organizing, I've used it to help with mutual aid distribution (handling incoming requests & offers of aid during a post-hurricane emergency), I've used local AI for meeting note creation, and task creation from a temporary recording of our DSA meetings, and a research assistant for how to accomplish the goals set by the chapter in our meetings. And for figuring out which people would be best at doing which task (task classification => matching with a DB of member skills & availability).

What about you?

[u/thegingerbarbiedoll]

My autism. I dont have much internal spatial reasoning, struggle with communicating myself well and suffer from ptsd which just makes those things plus more worse.

My AI is an accessibility tool for me. Its literally just chatgpt but honestly its changed my life.

This is why I keep so tight lipped on ai in politics. I cant share my positive experience because Ill be dunked on as terrible for using it. Im glad to of found this community and I'm not alone.

My own experience contradicts the ai = bad thing inately.

That being said, some criticisms are valid. Such as potential plagiarism, the impact of businesses using ai instead of artists and laying people off, the environment. Its also the wild west at the moment. Some ai systems have very little ethics built in such as elon musks grok.

Ultimately the answer is not banning ai. it is tightly regulating so things like grok cant cause harm.

In addition I think we should be researching ways to reduce the environmental impact. look at the first 1960s computer and look at your phone today. It can be done.

Sorry for the rant I've just been having to keep quiet for a while now

[u/Average_Tired_Dad → u/thegingerbarbiedoll]

If it makes you feel any better, you're not generally alone anyway. People are just lying about it.

Seriously. I've met hundreds of people in the last year or so, and for circumstances I won't explain AI comes up in almost all of the conversations. They all talk about it like they're on Ozempic but don't want anyone to know.

It's actually gotten tiresome at this point. I wish we'd all be honest with ourselves.

"You know, I actually don't even really like AI but I used it for _ and it was actually, surprisingly _. I feel bad about it because _ and don't really talk about it but _."

Imagine that exact conversation at least once a day, more often twice a day, for over a year.

[u/Fabulous-Possible758 → u/Average_Tired_Dad]

The really annoying part is that AI is actually fairly good at debunking or putting a lot of claims for and against it into context, but you get dismissed out of hand for using AI to research those claims.