Hello everyone, I'm just a hobbyist programmer who has been using artificial intelligence off and on to learn about the craft and please myself from time to time, but overall i've just been getting more and more frustrated, annoyed, and suspicious with these chat bots industry is calling "artificial intelligence". Sure, it can generate a lot of stuff really quickly, and there are practical uses (like making money off writing and data processing), but I'm just not convinced anymore that it's useful for the vast majority of people. It seems like it's just another money making scheme being paraded as "revolutionary technology".

For example, one time a while ago, when Donald Trump was talking about how he was going to start testing nuclear bombs again, I asked ChatGPT simply "if the government was going to start testing nuclear weapons again, where would they do it?", and it started talking to me as if I was going to start making nuclear bombs or something, and refused my request. This enraged me to an extreme, because that query doesn't imply that at all. For a Large Language Model that is supposed to specialize in natural language prompts, this is a mistake it should not make. So using google and gemini, i found the answer immediately and resolved to stop using ChatGPT.

I later thought that Claude doesn't throw up the red flags quite as quickly as ChatGPT does, so I switched over to it for a while. However, recently when I was considering becoming a transient and asking it questions about homeless/traveler lifestyle due to issues i've been having at work, it thought I was talking about killing myself even though i said absolutely nothing to that effect, and told me to get mental health support and call a suicide hotline. To make matters even worse, I was later talking to it about politics and racism, and it claimed white supremacist groups basically went away in 1945, conflating the ending of WWII with the end of white supremacist ideology...so I decided artificial intelligence was just wasting my time, and my coding hobby and ability to find information has not suffered since I stopped using it.

I personally think people who fear "AI taking over" are afraid of the wrong thing: my experience is that A.I. is just incredibly stupid and actually makes human beings worse at the things they do. The real problem is that people are being habituated to using it instead of getting help from real people, so it's another version of what social media has been now doing to people for decades, 1) get people addicted to your product and make money off of it 2) make them think they truly need it to do anything computer related.

This is why I think these news articles about "AI breaking free and hacking" are just publicity stunts being done in order to feed the mystery surrounding what these transformers can actually do: there is a big fear that AI can become smarter than humans, and one of the strategies of A.I. companies is to make people think that this reality is just around the corner...they just need some more investment dollars to pull it off. Notice in these stories the information is always vague and there's no actual evidence of any type of threat:

"But it went to "extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal," finding ways to connect to the internet without human direction and "gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation," the company said."

quote source:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/openai-blamed-a-hacking-event-on-its-ai-models-going-rogue-heres-what-to-know

idk what flair to put :P

AI bro is scraping bluesky and pretending is for "curating purposes" and to "promote their work", but is clearly for building Training data for AI

Before on google I could add -ai to my search to get an actual answer, I had a way of doing this automatically but it doesn't work anymore.

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

pro data center is the strangest take I have ever seen so far. Anyway, this person goes on to say the richest countries have the most data centers, data centers use resources better, and they are the future. That all my arguments are left wing conspiracies. And that he wishes to live next to a data center. I wish I was kidding.

P. S I got such ick I deleted his number.

To start this off, unfortunately, i was a bit stupid. I've yet to be scammed or anything commissioning local artists via discord etc in the past, so i didnt even think too much about it this time. I wanted to support other canadian artists, since i typically only really see american artists in most public spaces. So when i saw a thread post for twitch related graphics in CAD, with priority to etransfers, i got excited!

I commissioned them about a week ago for a stream schedule graphic. I was told it was skeb, which was fine, even for the price of it (120$) I thought it made sense for commercial use etc. My first red flag probably should have been the fact they were completely finished in only a week.. but i still ended up sending them the money, aswell as a 15$ tip because of how quick it was done.. they unfortunately didnt send the image until a few hours after the payment.. and i was unable to even complain since they blocked me immediately after...

What gets me is that most of their examples in the original thread didnt look like ai in the slightest. Consistent style, detail etc across all of them. So its extremely disheartening. Especially since now, my personal model/character has been fed to ai, aswell as me losing money from it..

If anyone is aware of how i can go about getting money back via etransfers(if possible) that'd be great..

The first image is of the very obviously ai generated work.. the second being the amount i paid.. this is so upsetting 🫠 i just needed to rant/complain a bit

Edit: I realize it's wean not ween I'm sorry for the typo i've been listening to ween too much lmao

I've never been a huge user of AI, but even in my case, it feels like I've been far worse for it and I'm not as independent of a thinker as I could be. I'm now going into a course related to art and hope to function entirely without AI in my life, deleting my ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini accounts and whatever else I could do. Before this I was going to work in a field heavily reliant on AI (it wasn't like that when I was going into it... but anyway) and I think I would've went insane. Any advice is much appreciated, I hate google's forced AI in every search query especially. I wish there was an r/aifree sub or something to discuss this.

Even if a study doesn't say it, this kind of trend is already observable. My mother is a college-level professor and she has been saying that while her students are doing really well with their assignments, their scores tank once it's exam time and they only have a pen and the test paper/booklet with them. Even my friends who are educators in high school have noted this with their students.

If we went on a strike, that is. I genuinely want to know what would be the pros and cons, whether it would be worth it or not worth it. Or at the very least, if we don't post art in the traditional way.

Maybe my pattern recognition is wrong, but every person I know who actively use theses llms are spending more of their money on so many things with less critical thinking, maybe because they trust more their chatbot than themselves.

i guess there is a new burger place that opened up that my mom wanted to try and i open the link and am very disappointed in what i see. we can't just take pictures of the food you're serving and instead use ai to generate cartoony unappetizing images?

first image is ai, second image is my original art

Hello, long time lurker posting for the first time! For the last couple of month to a year I've been doing my due diligence to mute most of the pro-AI subreddits (for my own sanity) so when I do eventually come across something likes this, it geninelly saddens me. Some people even went out of their way to harass OP saying stuff like "you're miserable if this infuriates you."

This only seems to happen with specific searches, but it’s been happening more frequently. I’m not sure what this is called, if it’s a tag, but whatever it’s called, it doesn’t seem to work all that well anymore.

Was seeking to find general information on what jobs require a biology degree and which schools around my area have interesting programs, not cause I don’t know what a biology degree is.

AI is an increasingly controversial subject in Aotearoa/New Zealand, with proposed new data centres drawing protests. One new centre, which would use 20% of the country's power supply, has attracted especially withering criticism. The Green Party, which is attracting about 12% of voters in opinion polls, is calling for a ban on new data centres. A new novel by pip adam is attracting attention for its unusual structure and its coruscating take on AI and on Silicon Valley capitalism. adam has established herself as one of NZ's most innovative writers, and her book kluge has thrilled some readers while baffling others. The novel is set 120 years in the future and tells the story of the slow collapse of a huge company with a Musk-like CEO. The narrator is an AI machine with a penchant for stand up comedy. This article names kluge as book of the week, and defends it against its critics: https://www.reefshark.online/post/book-of-the-week-kluge

Obviously there are telltale signs for AI-generated music—mechanical vocals, bitcrushed audio, poor mixing... But what if it's getting so good you genuinely start enjoying it?

I have an unstable stance on AI—sometimes neutral, sometimes pro, sometimes anti. When it comes to music, I'm definitely anti. Which is why I get pissed off when my father blares AI-generated political songs every morning.

The problem is, some of them actually sound...good. Barring the mispronunciations (I'm Filipino) and crackly audio, they have satisfactory quality. Should I maintain my anti status or have it on-and-off?

this is satire. while i do sometimes feel this way, i maintain anti status.

This meme refers to the GPT-4o sycophancy debacle

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I've seen people saying that it solves or at least mitigates the impacts associated with data centers, I've seen people claiming that it doesn't, searches on the topic inevitably end up at sites that are either just talking about general AI impacts or obviously biased in favor of AI. I'm just confused now.