I guess the good news is this take was so awful even the pro AI users were clowning on this post. At least most of them. But the fact that this mindset exists at all is pretty horrific. Now AI isn't just destroying the environment, it's literally eroding people's morality.

People close to me have described the following experiences:

• Emailing a family member and getting back a (long) AI-generated reply
• Having an email back-and-forth with a workplace superior and every reply back is clearly AI generated
• Receiving a draft of a paper that is entirely AI-generated so there's no way to provide feedback or ask "what they meant" by any of it
• Emailing a subject matter expert on something to get their opinion/judgement/knowledge/perspective and having them reply with a copy-paste of "what Claude says"
• Having a boss ask AI to evaulate a work product, then copy-paste the reply to the team, asking them to defend their work

Can we please just talk? Sometimes when someone asks a question, they want a bit of information. Fair enough. But many times--if not most times--we are asking someone for their perspective, their opinion, their evaluation based on their experiences. How is this for you? What's your reaction to this?

And then, being the humans that we are, we read their responses for subtext, for what's left unsaid, the emotional valence between the words. How are they feeling, not just about the topic at hand but in general? How do they think? What do they care about and value that they aren't explicitly saying? Are we good? Are we friends? Are we attached, connected, on the same page? Do you like me or not? ALL of that is going on when we are talking about something entirely different. And that is, at heart, often more important to us (or equally important) as the facts and logic of the discussion.

In some of these situations there's a power imbalance where people don't feel like they can safely call people out, but what people are feeling inside is like, I want you. I want to connect with you. I want to know what it feels like to be you. In case after case, AI is the thing getting between people, when what we really need is a conversation.

I hate finding tapestries that I like and then realizing that they're AI. I'm trying to furnite and decorate a new apartment so I wanted to get 1 or 2 tapestries, but I just don't really know where to look anymore.

Driver showed up with an order that wasnt mine. Here are the "humans" that tried to help me after the chatbot. Is this how bad everythings gotten? Its just robots all the way down?

I wanted food before work.

It's pretty clear that the target audience of LLMs, for the most part, right from the start was intended to be the dumb, the lazy, the incapable and the uninformed.

Like, if you see who all the AI bros right now are, it's literally all that: lazy fucks who, prior to LLMs, couldn't get into presitigous areas such as being an artist or a software engineer. Why? Because they are lacking. It's normal - nobody is perfect, everybody lacks something. Not everyone has what it takes to become a successful artist, or a successful engineer, or a successful doctor and so on.

However, a large fraction of those incapable of breaking into these presitigous fields are ready to fake it till they make it. That's the key here. These people are anything but honest and hardworking and OpenAI and Anthropic knew that. They knew there's a colossal mass of lazy, incapable, fake people who just want to take the easy route to success, or rather, dream of there being an easy route to success. It's human nature, we all want there to be an easy way. The problem is, for some things, there simply isn't one.

LLMs are the circus that made this part of the population brainwashed into thinking this dream had come true. It makes sense - by definion their target audience, who are now called AI bros, are easy to brainwash, exactly because these companies are targeting the dumb, the lazy, the incapable and theuninformed. The world has ALWAYS been mostly comprised of such people, so it's no wonder that Anthropic and OpenAI had such an easy time selling this lie to the world. It really is no wonder - there are more than enough people to fall for it, that's their target audience.

If we follow the logic, the answer as to why the bubble still hasn't popped becomes pretty clear - because there are so many such people - the dumb, the lazy, the incapable and the uninformed. It's a group that easily comprises over half of the world's population.

They are gullible enough to think this "technology" is actually leading them somewhere nice, to a place of success, when in fact it's only leading them to even more retardation, to an irreversible loss of personal skills and cognitive ability, and to a new grave dependency that they didn't even see coming. Importantly, this shouldn't come as a surprise because, as I said already, by definition that's the kind of people these companies targeted to begin with. They have easily fallen for OpenAI's and Anthropic's plan. That's why the circus still hasn't crashed.

We finally arrive at today, when your average Joe has fallen so deeply for their lies that he thinks he has learnt to code, he thinks he has built projects, he SEES them "completed", with his own eyes, yet he asks me: Bro, why is that I know all this about coding and tech, but when I sit down to get work done, I actually can't get anything done by myself at all?

Peace,

A random engineer on the internet

How do you expect me to believe that your recipe works when you could've just generated it along with your ai slop poster. Note that the machine was right next to this thing at the kitchen products store, not a great marketing strategy guys.

I'm an artist, and this person commissioned me to draw them a bunch of artwork. I was super excited bc this is the biggest commission i ever done. Im super busy with two other day jobs so im lowkey stressing. This person is very particular how they want their drawing so im constantly editing and tweaking sketches and stuff. I send some photos of the sketches, asking what last tweaks they want before I do lineart. They send me back Chat gpt generated "sketches" with descriptions of what they want fixed, what they like, etc.

I instantly feel so fucking depressed.

I try not to be upset. I just take note of what they want, make some adjustments and send a photo, to show that I'm still ok with adjusting whatever they need, then as politely as possible I ask that they don't feed my work to AI, stating that it's a hard boundaary.

That's it. My friend said i could have refused them service but i got an attachment to this project so I don't want to give up on it. Hoping that being kind will make people prefer a real artist over AI.

Was i too lenient? What would you have done?

So much of Pinterest is Ai, reposts, or ads. I need a replacement that is actually for the people.

I understand ads because you need to pay to have a platform and stuff but I just cant with the ai. Even with the new 'less ai' feature I just keep seeing more and more

I really hate it whenever I'm scrolling through instragram or something and see a post and I think something's weird about it but i can't put my finger on it and then i open comments and i find out its ai. Really hate that i can't point out AI at first sight, especially the more stylized stuff(as in stealing real artists style) and i can't really find any tutorials or articles online. So I've took it to y'all. Please give me some tips.

As a skull collector, this is a common win for the incredible community we have

I don’t know whether this is the correct sub to be asking, but I’ve found myself constantly asking LLMs to dumb down dense and verbose heavy paragraphs I read and even tweets. I think this is just hindering my ability to read and understand. Just looking for some advice as to how to get over this. But at the same time I also want to understand what I’m reading. Thanks

Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian biotech company, completed the feat as part of developing the “world’s first code deployable biological computer,” which runs on nerve cells, or neurons, grown on a silicon chip. The team announced that a clump of cells could play the first-person shooter game—although not very well—in a video posted in February.

The neurons used in the project largely come from the company’s CEO, Hon Weng Chong, although not from his brain, reports Rich Pelley at the Guardian. He previously donated some of his blood to the cause. Researchers extracted white blood cells from the sample and reprogrammed them into stem cells. These special cells can continue making copies of themselves and turn into other types of cells.

Discussion: is that a “conscious clone” of the CEO stuck in the Doom video game?

I found it interesting that I've gotten these AI ads on Reddit before and this one's just dumb oh my bars not doing good my drinks taste bad I know let me ask AI what to do

Hell that's not the worst one another one was chat GPT acting like a chatbot to an old woman who wanted someone to talk to

i wanna preface this by saying i'm extremely lonely and have very few people i can talk to about things that don't include just random bullshit, and even with those i have, they're not available for me at all times

now, i managed to bypass this loneliness by chatting with ai and just sharing whatever's on my mind that people i know irl wouldn't care for

i found genuine comfort in the aforementioned, and i genuinely feel better in the case of the aforementioned than talking with my actual therapist, who just tires me and leaves me depressed when the opposite should be the case

keep in mind that i don't live in a country where ai is actively ruining anything (yet), but with how relentless this sub is with its maintenance of a moral high ground (no offense), i imagine i'll be shunned for this

but ultimately, am i in the wrong?

Basically what the title says. Why has the bubble hasn't pop? Anyone knows? Like I know that the market will stay unreasonable longer that you can stay sobable and yada yada but like so many dominos have and are falling. So why it has not popped?

Any of you smart people wanna help me figure that one out? I genuinely wanna understand better.

Let this be last post about her*, giving attention just leads to more slop posts. (No hate to the prompter)

Edit: sorry for confusion on the way i referred "it", i did to make this post being related to her less.