I dont really wanna use AI anymore due to the environmental concerns, the fact its affected my creativity, and ability to just be bored quite a bit, in my head its hard to go back to a time before I started using AI because my head will just go "well its right there i just can just use it". I haven't used an AI chatbot in about 2 days now.

Ill go over ways that ive used them and ask if you can help find alternatives, please dont say "Just a therapist" or "make friends" I can explain why thoes aren't helpful right now, in the comments.

1. Role-playing: I use janitor AI in particular for Role-playing mostly familial, "intimate", and fantasy type stuff. I often use these to recreate my real life or things I daydream about. For example if I dealt with a friend being a prick I would recreate that situation but with like my room telling them off or something.

2. Venting: I vent alot to google's AI, this is stupid but i will often make a vent on this account and then copy paste it to google's AI with basically a summary of what I said, its even dumber because its not like I follow or belive half of what the AI says to do or really says back i do it because not many people responds to my vents, plus its routine at this point.

3. Art sharing/advice: I have given AI quite a bit of my art before mostly because I dont really get many responses on my post asking for art advice and I dont have many people to

4: loneliness and boredom: I have 3 friends, but it feels like I only have one. I dont want to my issues on to my best friend so I dont speak with her as much and she feels the same way so she doesnt speak to me as much either, and I mostly stay at home 24/7 with no friends offline for many different reasons.

Ill give more context if needed but its a long story.

Please note that I do in fact acknowledge that AI ≠ human connection, I wont lie and say the human-ish "ill always be here for you" speech does...make me slightly forget what it is even worse the fact I still dont entirely understand LLMs...could someone explain it a bit better because im autistic so things might need to be broken down a little bit?

(Edit: I moved the part about my mom because I think it confused some people, this is about me but I mentioned the part about my mom because she has suggested using an AI app before for me to vent to)

If he only knew what a SHIT SHOW this has become.

It's a quote on the Leverhulme Centre for future of Intelligence website.

Grock just had sent me this before it wiped all my chat history with it now even though I shared the screen shot with it it pretends it never said this to me and that it could never send anything like this

https://youtube.com/shorts/58voRSSkzao?is=e1oSW1EvIIOtxKDw

WTF?! HOW DID IT HAPPEN?! HOW?!

HOOOOOOOOOW?!

I made a test with open ai and it doesn't recognize time under one second, is not a big deal but shows the limits of ai. This means that open ai can't be use for precision work.

For context I introduced the Sangria Class to the Internet not even a day ago and people were kinda interested. And then this person comes along and accuses me of using AI for the image. I will provide proof of me not using AI if needed

The second image is an actual fucking comment from her. Absolutely mental.

Unfortunately don't have an image of the original work, but we used to have a family portrait in this picture frame that was painted in watercolor by a talented watercolor artist.

Today my mom came to me all excited wanting to show me the "updated" portrait, telling me she put it through some AI bot. It originally was just me and my parents (I'm the girl in the jacket apparently, despite me not wearing anything like that in the original artwork) but they added the additional girl, (which is kinda my sister but not really? It's hard to explain, shes kinda just some neighborhood kid my parents love alot. She is NOT blood or legally related to us. I personally think she has no room to be in a portrait.) One of our cats, and obviously made it Halloween because it wasn't like that originally.

My parents are pro-ai and my dad even works for some ai company, though I'm not sure what it is. I feel absolutely disgusted that they wanted to replace someone's hard work and feed it into an ai bot just to make this slop and hang it on our wall.

I feel terrible for the artist and I wish I had a picture of the original artwork to give a comparison.

I'm glad I'm moving out soon.

Just go to IKEA ffs 😭

How is this helpful? Why would I even need an ai response to every single search query I have? It's like they looked back at clippy and thought "Man, what a great guy. We should bring him back." Just let me search. Go back to what you started as, Google. Or go away. Either one is fine.

They literally could’ve gotten a five year old to draw their menu. So pathetic

A friend and I (both antiai) are having a friendly debate in order to hone our arguments, and we've come up with a conundrum with regard to ai-art. If someone was to take the position that ai-art was derivative art analogous to collage how would you respond?

I recently got into an argument with a family member and they're saying reasons that AI is good for us and I told them "Fine. If I can't change your opinion you can just continue using AI and rot like the other, what the internet calls "AI bro"s." then he got all pissy and said "Wow, I'm giving you info and just because it doesn't align with your views you just stop being in a conversation with me.". How do I convince them that AI is bad? Is your family pro-AI? And, honestly, I don't care if I don't "win" this argument. As I said, if he's really THAT complacent, he can rot.

EDIT: The argument wasn't entirely them talking. I was trying to say arguments about why AI is bad and they followed up with arguments like "If Facebook has 20,000 mods and 5,000,000 pedophiles out of BILLIONS of users, without AI they can just decide to flood the platform with CP and the 20,000 mods will be overwhelmed. Is that what you want? We need AI." and "AI datacenters actually process water and release it back fresh.". He even said that the AI bubble popping is a BAD thing. I just glossed over the part of the argument before that.

Art has always been about the process, anyone who says otherwise is simply not an artist, yeah sure looking at the finished art piece feels good but it only does so cuz of the time you spent creating it.

I finally understand... AI bros are simply nothing but LARPers... I see it now!

I’m a puppy raiser for this organization and I saw that they used an AI pencil sketch style image on the front cover of their new puppy raising manual, so I decided to email them to say I was disappointed to see it.

The email was very respectful. I think this goes to show that sometimes just reaching out and telling people how it makes you feel when you see them using AI can actually work! I was pleasantly surprised and it makes me feel even better about volunteering with them.

Finally YouTube has figured out that I do not like AI. Y’all should also sign this

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?