Kinda cool how much auto-correct and noise filters can do… kinda uncool to use the same as leverage against humanity.

I think that they’re neat, they’re development is fascinating to me, and that they have their utility. But I am sick of executive and marketing types sloppily cramming them into every corner of every service just so they can tell their shareholders that it’s “powered by AI”. So far, I’ll use a page or app dedicated to chatting with the llm, or I’ve also found that GitHub copilot in vscode is pretty nifty sometimes for things like quickly generating docs that I can then just proofread and edit. But in most other applications and websites I don’t use them at all or I’m forced to and the experience is worse. Recently, I’ve been having to work in Microsoft’s power platform a bit for a client (help me). Almost every page in the entire platform has an AI chatbot on the side that’s supposed to do some of the work around you. Don’t use it. It fucks up your shit. Ask it to do something, it will change your flow or whatever you’re working with with the wrong syntax that won’t even compile 9/10 times, with no opportunity to undo, and the remaining 1/10 is logic errors. Ask it questions about the platform, not only will it not know anything, it will literally accuse you of not speaking English.

TL;DR I think they’re neat and useful IF they’re used responsibility and implemented well. Otherwise they are a nuisance excuse to use a buzzword at best or dangerous at worst

I love it for what I use it for which is research, speeding up scripting and code writing, resume building, paraphrashing stupidly long news articles, teaching me Spanish and Japanese, bypassing the bullshit that are what passes as search engines these days, and talking my anxiety down. They cut through the noise and boost my productivity.

AI is the perfect tool to generate propaganda and fake-news on a massive scale for government and secret services. Humans may live in bubbles divorced from reality because of it. It also is the perfect technology for censorship, sentiment analysis/monitoring and thought-control automation.

Capitalism will ruin any good opportunities with said technology. Much like every technology that preceeded it.

I’m in the sector, and there are legitimate time and effort savings when used correctly. Code refactoring gets a little smarter than a dumb script, boilerplate code is instantly generated, and real educational topics can be delved into and analyzed.

I don’t want to see it closed off, and I want the data used to train made public. These LLMs have capabilities older scripted systems can never match.

Eventually they will replace workers. Our society is too self-centered to make that a good thing.

They make me want to summon the ghost of General Ludd from his grave.

Using AI like Deepseek is a lot easier than shifting through 50 search results, if the question is for a relatively new technology though then it usually doesn’t work

Most GenAI was trained on material they had no right to train on (including plenty of mine). So I’m doing my small part, and serving known AI agents an infinite maze of garbage. They can fuck right off.

Now, if we’re talking about real AI, that isn’t just a server park of disguised markov chains in a trenchcoat, neural networks that weren’t trained on stolen data, that’s a whole different story.

It’s a glorified crawler that is incredibly inefficient. I don’t use it because I’ve been programmed to be picky about my sources and LLMs hasn’t.

Let me know when we have some real AI to evaluate rather than products labeled as a marketing ploy. Anyone remember when everything had to be called “3D” because it was cool? I missed my chance to get 3D stereo cables.

Pretty cool technology ruined by greed. If we don’t get this under control (which we won’t probably) we’re in for a pretty interesting age of the Internet, maybe even the last one.

Hype bubble. Has potential, but nothing like what is promised.

I personally hate the path that AI is going. Generative ai steals art and scrapes text to create garbage on demand using too much power and computing resources that could be spent on better purposes, such as simulating protein folding for disease research (see folding at home). u/[email protected] gave some good uses of ai.

To be honest, I think it’s a severe mistake that AI is continuing to improve, as long as you aren’t gullible and know what to look for, you can tell when something is ai generated, but there are too many people who are easily fooled by ai generated images and videos. When chatpgt released, I thought it was a nice toy, but now that I know the methods of which such large scale models are obtaining their data to train on, I can only resent it. So long as generative models continue to improve in accuracy of text and images, so will my hatred towards it in turn.

p.s: don’t use the term “AI art” for the love of God. art captures human emotions and experiences, machines can’t understand them, they are only silicon. Only humans can create art, nothing else.

As a tool for reducing our societal need to do hard labor I think it is incredibly useful. As it is generally used in America I think it is an egregious from of creative theft that threatens to replace a large range of the working class in our nation.