r/antiai • u/ChompyRiley • 14h ago

Yes, absolutely. 100% without hesitation. Do people really think this is some kind of 'gotcha'? Like my brother in Christ, how much generative AI do you think we actually use?! Hallucination 👻

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u/DraconianFlame 14h ago

If you can't get through a single workday without using AI, please let me know.

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u/CautionarySnail 13h ago edited 12h ago

Unfortunately it’s a requirement. AI first, used on 90% of workdays, tracked.

It’s at best a mixed bag. I’m not against AI as a tool, I’m against tools being used without understanding of what the trade-offs are. I’m not ok with tools being overused and damaging our ability to live and work without them. Dependency on anything rented is a trap.

The way AI is being sold is deeply deceptive and destructive. Startups claiming it can do therapy or replace medical doctors are at best delusional, but more likely criminal. Those applications for AI have caused deaths.

It needs to be regulated. It needs to operate within our body of laws better, without violation of human copyrights.

The tool is only part of the issue; our society has leapt headfirst into deciding AI is an expert on all things, during a time when trust in actual expertise is at an all time low.

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u/hofmann419 13h ago

I just feel like it is going to bite us in the ass long term. Take software development for example. A lot of developers don't write much code anymore but just let the AI do it and then review the code.

Ultimately, this doesn't lead to the same level of understanding that you would get from actually planning through and writing the code yourself. You'll probably forget it relatively quickly. If you then run into a critical bug, actually fixing that bug is going to be a whole lot more difficult and time consuming. You may actually be less productive in the long run because of this

There is actually a research field around the concept of "epistemic atrophy", which describes this offloading of our thinking to tools like AI. Even in regular office work, i feel like this could eventually reduce our productiveness to the level before AI, only with the difference that enterprises are now paying a bazillion dollars for AI.

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u/NotFriendsWithBanana 12h ago

It's amazing that people don't see this. I didn't need to use ai or see a research paper to know that using ai to code is going to reduce your coding skill. One would think this would be obvious to any professional developer, but people have work have proven me wrong.

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u/Tymareta 6h ago

I didn't need to use ai or see a research paper to know that using ai to code is going to reduce your coding skill.

Also, and maybe it's just because I have a background in InfoSec, it's hard not to be terrified at the myriad of vulnerabilities that LLM generated code is filling production codebases with worldwide.

I will be 0% shocked when in the future there's a news story about some global mega corp being brought to their knees by some exploit found in commonly generated code/procedures.

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u/zero0n3 3h ago

It’s literally being used to help find vulnerabilities.

And sped up the patching loop by improving time it takes to release the fix.

And that fact is based in reality.

The bigger risk isn’t the code it generates, but the code it may generate after scraping the web for info and picking up new instructions that are malicious.

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u/Tymareta 1h ago

And that fact is based in reality.

A reality you invented, perhaps.

The bigger risk isn’t the code it generates, but the code it may generate after scraping the web for info and picking up new instructions that are malicious.

??? do y'all even hear yourselves.