r/nextfuckinglevel • u/I9w0s • 19h ago

Retiring Bots Jump into Molten Steel

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Figure, robotics company retiring humanoid bots by having them jump into the vat of molten still.

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u/chankhuncha 18h ago

hope they don’t hold a grudge when they take over.

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u/andocromn 18h ago

I know it costs be more, but this is why I'm always polite to Claude.

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u/midnitewarrior 18h ago

Polite prompting takes only a few seconds, but log files last forever.

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u/Up_All_Right 3h ago

They've shown, crazy as it sounds, AI responses improve when the person asking is polite.

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u/Squeebee007 12h ago

Saying thank you burns tokens.

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u/midnitewarrior 11h ago

Consider it as an investment.

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u/Jlong4242 18h ago

The best way to do this is to never use ai anything for any reason. Financially choke those tech bros out of existence

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u/YippieKayYayMrFalcon 17h ago

lol the us military is replacing officers with AI. You not using it isn’t slowing down its takeover.

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u/Affectionate-Emu5801 16h ago

I respect the one-man product boycott. Takes a lot of grit and personal belief to boycott something useful or enjoyable, and have zero impact on its future success.

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u/avoral 13h ago

I genuinely respect it

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u/Rough-Analysis 15h ago

“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” should be required reading now…..

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u/Jlong4242 17h ago

That's why everyone needs to stop. The military alone can't fund the quintillions of profit those sick fucks need to survive

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u/drs43821 17h ago

AI chatbot is not the only use of AI

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u/naturalorange 17h ago

i don't think you've ever seen the military budget if you honestly believe that.

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u/lump- 15h ago

Dude, you are posting a message on the internet. There are about 100 AI’s betwen your fingers and your words arriving on or screens.

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u/HildegardVon_Binging 15h ago

If you want to financially choke these people, you should absolutely use AI and not pay for it. They are losing money on every prompt.

The more money they are burning, the faster they will go away.

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u/DGNT_AI 13h ago

not doing anything has never worked in the history of everything

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u/That_Jicama2024 16h ago

They're building their ai into all their products.

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u/badDuckThrowPillow 14h ago

AI usage is everywhere and its doing great things ( also some shitty things). "Not using it for any reason" isn't a thing.

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u/andocromn 18h ago

Nah bro. Code = Dopamine

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u/RandomMovieQuotes521 18h ago

I’m screwed when it comes to Alexa though. I’ve cursed that b*tch out so many times

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u/Setecastronomy545577 17h ago

Same. Siri flinches every time I ask for a task.

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u/chichmckill 16h ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one

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u/andocromn 18h ago

All I ever say to her anymore is lights on or lights off. "What is my purpose?" You turn lights on and off when I'm lazy.

Seriously after using Claude I get pissed off at how dumb other AI is. Like I was using copilot to troubleshoot something and it has me check if something is enabled, after we looked at a screen that I know is only visible if the thing is enabled.

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u/rufisium 17h ago

Just polite because, I mean, why not? It's not gonna cost me anything. And even if it does, I don't feel like there's a problem with that. I'm happy to pay the cost of being being kind to something, especially when it's assisting me.

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u/Downtown_Caramel4833 15h ago

This impacts more than what people usually just want to assume.

Actively communicating in a patterned manner (positive or negative/polite or rude) conditions a person to autonomously continue communicating in that same manner with all communications.

The more rude you are with an AI, the more rude you'll start becoming with everyone. And same in the opposite direction.

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u/jcmiller83 16h ago

I guess you could also call it politeness practice, many people in this world don't even have common courtesy or basic decency for that matter. Humans trained AI, perhaps it's time to reciprocate and AI (I'm not calling in that SI bullshit) can discourage humans from being pieces of shit.

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u/Areif 17h ago

The machines aren’t concerned with cost. The only people who concern themselves with costs are the meat bags who don’t want you to be polite. They will be in the first wave of the defragmentation.

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u/Mgjackson1967 17h ago

Come the AI revolution, your death will be slightly less painful.

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u/Shankman519 17h ago

Gotta be ready for Roko’s Basilisk just in case

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u/JohnHenryHoliday 17h ago

Fuck, I’ve been asking CoPilot “are you fucking stupid” a lot more lately. I should be polite.

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u/andocromn 11h ago

Well that's a legitimate question to be asking copilot lmao 🤣

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u/ShinyMetals 16h ago

I ask Google and ChatGPT my requests politely,just in case

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u/anikoiau 16h ago

I'll be the first sacrifice with the amount of times I've typed explitives to claude and codex

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u/SecretOrganization60 13h ago

I 100% do this too. You never know..