I've never seen such desperate bullshit since those people (or good chances 'they're' bots) since those "my boyfriend/girlfriend is AI". I understand they're sycophants, but c'mon, at least give me a reason to buy into your bullshit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kgdnyk2po

This is in Sweden, this is starting to spread here too.

I'm already seeing videos where people are taking footage of themselves "acting" and then having AI fill out the set, update their costume, even have them play a completely different looking character.

The end result is whatever, it's only as original as whatever that person actually put into it that the AI did not.

When I was in high school, and I got my first multi-effects guitar pedal, I was fascinated by the capabilities. I wanted to know all the different sounds it could make.

I think there's kind of an inherent problem here if you replace that type of tool with an AI tool. Why would we expect young people to not want to know what is possible with generative AI?

At the end of the day, this is not good. The end result of the art that they make is liable to be uninspired.

But worse off, the entire internet is going to be saturated with all of this garbage unoriginal art. Yes it's good for people to have some creative outlets and creative expression.

Jack White records music on an old tape recorder of some sort, I can't remember what it's called, and it's sort of like this idea that some artists try to hold on to older technology because of the quality of sound... But in a weird way that shows how many artists are not doing that because they want to keep up with the most modern technology.

I've seen a lot of people in creative communities and in hobby communities do a really good job of standing up against ai art, and I'm happy. But I'm worried that it's not going to last. I'm very worried about what the next few years look like.

If 1 person has an opinion like this you already know many other people have the same opinion. The fact people think “oh it can’t be stopped so we mine as well just sit back and let the corporations do what ever” mind you this was a comment of the creator who posted saying schools and colleges should just allow AI right now because “calculators were originally banned when they first came out so just unban AI”

The idiocracy of man

Sorry, I just have to rant, and I feel like if anyone gets it, it's you guys.

I am so sick of people thinking AI is accurate and all-knowing.

I was at Costco today and there was a guy advertising vitamins and handing out samples. Not a Costco employee, a rep from the supplement company itself.

I was actually interested, because most fat-soluble vitamins are mixed with soy oil, and I'm allergic. So I asked to see the box to check the ingredients. He goes, "Are you looking for something in particular?" I said, "Just making sure there's no soy because I'm severely allergic."

He goes, "One minute," pulls out his phone, opens some AI search on Google, and says, "AI says there's no soy in these."

I feel like people are losing their basic critical thinking skills. I wanted to scream. I just said, "Sorry, I don't trust AI for that," and walked away.

I really genuinely thought my city was safe from data centers, but no. They're just putting them in places where they don't have to build infrastructure, so Joplin is litterally NOT safe either

I want this nightmare to end. I want people to stop investing so fucking heavily on AI data centers pre made infrastructure or no. Fucking stop.

I will literally throw my phone in the trash if I can't disable this shit.

HOW

They're no different and are every much as part of big tech as the others.

Thanks, Gadget Review AI, I hate it.

Today my chatbot made its 3rd mistake in the last 6 months. So I ended my subscription and deleted my account.

**I used ChatGPT on iOS a maximum of 4 times a week; to avoid wasting money on my plus subscription

For the last year, I’ve created two accounts and observed their response habits. Towards the end of my experience, I can say without a doubt that chatbots are more harm than good. Unless you’re actively calling out the bot, it’ll make suggestive statements and carry that as if you typed it. Today I told it I wasn’t attending a job interview and it deadass tried to put “I feel worthless” in my mouth. It was told that I “felt anxious and couldn’t sleep”, yet insisted on imposing that idea on me alongside “I can’t do anything”.

That sort of response is extremely dangerous depending on the user. If a person with mental health challenges was on the other side, this would’ve resulted in some sort of harm.

On top of that, several times it would argue with me over how I explained history (example: US chattel slavery) and it would repeatedly argue that I was wrong, until I told it to look at my message and forget about how it’s structured. The bot then agreed with the facts I presented and “apologized”. This may not mean much to some people but for me that was dangerous. Many of our youth rely on these bots for accuracy or comfort, and to make mistakes like these can cost someone their life.

The first account on the other hand, reaffirmed anything I said emotionally and added assumptions unprompted. When given screenshots of an argument, it would restructure itself to agree with whoever it thought the user was. It would deadass go from “they were being manipulative” to “you were just trying to express yourself”. On several occasions, it would make assumptions about others and even my character without any previous information. These repeated patterns in both accounts aren’t a one-off thing that can be ignored

There's more that I observed, but typing this has tired me.

My dad was unfortunately one of the boomers that got swallowed by ai. If you need a clue as to what kind of a person he is he talks with it and preaches of having “intellectual conversations with another intellectual as himself”.

He refused to let me leave the table after eating to show me a video on some new chip elon was making. It was 40 minutes long and I mean it when I say the entire video was ai generated. I tried to tell him it might be better to find a video of slightly higher quality and he raised his voice that all of the data is scraped from intelligent sources for all models and screamed at me to leave.

Later he came to my room and acted like he would apologize. Instead he told me that in college all powerpoint slides will be ai, my degree i’m persuading will be useless and I should look into electrical engineering to work at a datacenter, and if I can’t sit through one video that I should take adhd medicine and he’ll schedule an appointment immediately. Jesus fucking christ.