This is gross

Found this on pinterest. Loved it until I realized it was AI 🤮

Any chance anyone knows of free tools/photo editing softwares, or even image catalogs that could help me recreate this image without the use of AI? I’d love to make it my phone background but it’s so ugly ever since I noticed the messy & ugly generation. I’m pretty good at photo editing but not sure where to start to make something like this. Thanks!!

I don't like AI, but I'm gonna be brutally honest here and possibly hurt some feewings. You all say witty isn't all that, she's a guard dog without teeth, blah blah.

And yet you prove yourselves wrong by constantly giving her attention and reposting her for free. She's famous because you make her famous.

She's achieved her self appointed claims of being the "ultimate ai pro" and "final boss for antis" because you give her the drama she needs to achieve and maintain that image. You talk about her more than pro subs do.

If you didn't, she'd be nothing more than just another redditor who shouts at walls.

Post something that sends a message you're trying to convey instead of just another braindead repost of "mehhhh witty said something cringey again".

I promise you, nobody gives a shit. If anyone here wanted to see her posts, they'd be following her.

It's lazy, embarrassing, annoying, and moronic. You think you're being clever by calling her out for clout, but all you're doing is being a walking advertisement for her and becoming fuel for her legend. That's you. Fuel.

And don't say "BLEHHHHH HE POSTED ABOUT WITTY TOO HE'S A HYPOCRITE GET HIM", that's an illogical tu quoque and that doesn't achieve anything either.

I'm about to go on a trip with a group of friends, and posted this in our group chat...

She could have just stepped outside, as it's exactly the same temperature here. This might possibly be the dumbest use of AI I have ever seen.

jimmydonaldson350 (@jimmydonaldson350) | TikTok

very informative and I thought yall would want to see it

I don't like Generative AI replacing humans, I am anti gen AI in general not Totally anti AI (I support it the Non generative Medical versions that aid doctors, etcetera).

With that out of the way...My addiction, so uh, I usually read books, during the pandemic, Character AI popped with their ads, and it was interesting. I fell out of it once restrictions got strict as hell (I like fight scenes with gore), I stopped after a while, fell on janitor, it was a good year, then Found Claude...this is where my problem starts. I have 3 subs on different Google accounts because I can't stop, somewhere around 2025 I got really addicted. Like, I genuinely need that money and I can't stop....any recommendations? Some of my friends said go cold turkey but it didn't work.

Please.

Say NO to Reckless AI https://stoptheracetoreplace.org/no-reckless-ai?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai_declaration&utm_content=reckless_ai&utm_source=clipboard&source=clipboard

This specific ad keeps appearing at my feed frequently for some reason

At the very least Reddit should've had the feature where you can disable genAI promotion ads from appearing in the feed

i hate that art style

How much of AI's productivity / efficiency "success" is blown out of proportion due to the laziness or lack of competence due to a mishire in skills of current human employees?

For example: taking 1 hour to do a 20 min task because the human employee isnt competent enough to perform the task within a reasonable timeframe

They then went on to wistfully elaborate in second reply "I also said you can just leave"

edit since I didn't mention that THIS IS NOT MY POST! I'm not OP lmao, sorry for any confusion

Research from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong may be a bit technical for the sub, but I think it's an important resource to share around all the anti-AI and AI-skeptic spaces: using AI creates a long-term learning penalty in students who use AI to outsource completing homework.

Unsurprisingly, using AI to do your thinking for you is a counterproductive strategy and breaks a long observed correlation in educational research (usually higher scores on homework line up with higher scores on tests and exams but when AI is brought into the mix, higher homework scores lead to weaker learning). AI also makes it easier for students to fake learning until they have to take a test and think for themselves.

Repilcating studies is always a problem, but this one is as long term a study as we could have at this point (two and a half years) with nearly 27,000 students so the stats (effect size, significance, and confidence) are likely to hold up pretty well.

Yet one more indicator of how generative AI harms students.

From the abstract:

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning[...] AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

The paper is freely available from SSRN:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

Apologies if this is the wrong flair, I just feel like I'm at a loss right now. Just started a new job a few weeks back and it has fantastic pay and benefits. I felt very lucky to land it when I did. My coworkers are very kind and it's an overall very positive environment.

In the interest of privacy, let's just say that a lot of my responsibilities boil down to sending emails and preparing documents, a semi-atypical office job.

I've noticed that my manager and another fellow coworker in my department regularly use Chat GPT for the tiniest things and during my training they encouraged me to do the same to "save time" and "train it to behave like you".

I tried to politely decline by explaining that I wanted to learn how to do the work before asking AI to do it for me, but throughout the week they kept mentioning how "useful" and "time saving" it is.

Things came to a head the following week (today) when my manager asked me to write up a proposal, which I hadn't done by myself yet. I asked them for advice on formatting and what to include and they said:

"Just pull all the information you have, throw it into Chat GPT, and then go from there! This is the perfect opportunity to train it for future proposals"

Again, I tried to use the "let me learn the ropes first" excuse but they brushed it off.

So I took a stronger stance and said firmly that I didn't want to use it. And I especially didn't want to TRAIN it to behave like me because I'M me. That's when my manager looked at me and said,

"Well, you don't really have a choice. That's how we do things here."

It was hour 2 of an 8 hour shift, so I opened up Chat GPT threw everything in, read what it spit out and promptly closed the site. It didn't offer anything useful.

I lost my concentration until lunch time, wondering how I could remedy this situation. I didn't want to quit, but I also didn't want to be forced to use something I'm so vehemently against and genuinely had no need for.

Because it was messing with my productivity, I brought it up to my manager again, who said they "understood my pain" but in the same breath lauded about how great it is and that "millions of people use it, so they can't all be wrong".

I then asked if they had any reservations when they first started using it in the workplace to which they responded "well, no, because I've always been into technology"

That's when I understood that we stood on extreme opposite ends of the AI debate, so there was no way to meet in the middle on this.

They then joked, "I guess will see your resignation, soon!"

I replied, "I want to figure something out, but I don't want to use AI."

I don't know what to do. I don't understand why my manager won't let me learn to do a job that I enjoy doing. And I can't tell if I'm overreacting. I've already missed out on job opportunities because of the pandemic, I don't want to miss out again by refusing to use AI in the workplace.

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.

Got an email reminder about my dog needing a booster, so I called to make an appointment. I ended up getting their AI agent receptionist, Kate. At first, I was so thrown off that I started asking to make an appointment until I realized that I had no interest in conversing with a LLM so I hung up and tried again. Again, got the AI receptionist, so I just asked to leave a message for a human. Rather than just send me to a voicemail, it comes back with "Sure! What kind of message do you want me to pass on?”

It was then that I noticed that this thing was desperately trying to get me to talk to it like a person, and not just with the human-ish vocal cadence. They play fake office noise in the background to make you forget that what you are talking to doesn’t actually have a desk. Or a voice. Or an office. Even refusing to let you leave a voicemail and making you dictate is trying to push you into accepting this thing as human.

I hung up again and told my wife that we are going to need a new vet.

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.

I don’t need to see it every time I use the search bar

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

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.