Me, a Meth Addict, constantly trying to blow meth smoke in your face and stab you with meth needles: “You’re going to have a pretty hard time getting by without it!”
I could quit AI anytime I want to
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I guess we just have to accept meth being forced into everything because the cat is out of the bag!
EastofEdson@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Meth is the future. If you don’t start now, you’ll get left behind.
Fawkes@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Me, an ADHD sufferer, “Yeah, meth is terrible. But please don’t try to ban amphetamines universally.”
EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right now I could probably get meth easier than adderall even with my prescription.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ve been wondering why is meth still allowed as a treatment for adhd? Do regular amphetamines not work for some people?
the_q@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Um did buddy not exist before AI? We got this far without it so…
CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think the most upsetting part of AI is discovering how many people were so ready for it, like they were just waiting for something to show up that they could offload their lack of creativity or responsibility onto.
I instantly lost friends because the first thing out of their mouth was ‘thank God I never have to pay anyone to commission art ever again and the little guy has access to good OC art.’
These peolle were not functioning before AI.
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No absolving the LLM-obsessed but I believe the average person is just so overwhelmed with society that they salivate for easy answers, just so that something is easy in their lives.
I imagine LLMs wouldn’t be as persuasive if humans had the leisure to satisfy their curiosity, indulge in artistic expression, and socialize with their loved ones. Instead we’re inculcated to this rat race and get surprised when people fall for any scraps they can get their hands on.
Some people are mindless by nature, but this set-up was nutured (intentionally or not) by those wanting to exploit the commoners.
the_q@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yup. There’s a large population of humans that really just objectively suck.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He existed but he must never have actually bothered learning to do anything.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Definitely. I haven’t even begun to use it yet and its already pissing me off. If I touch the phone in just the wrong way it starts doing AI at me. Turns out it starts doing AI at me if I hold the power button down to turn it off. Imagine my anger.
Every time I turn my Windows laptop on it throws more and more copilot bollocks at me that I dont need or want and dont have the time to try and disable so I just have to spend the whole time fighting it off like a dog trying to hump my leg when I’m trying to cook dinner.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your metaphor is perfect!
I try to search - AI humps my leg. I shop online - useless AI assistant humps my leg. I phone a company for customer service - oh you better believe some stupid AI voice humps my leg.
How could I ever live without it?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If I touch the phone in just the wrong way it starts doing AI at me. Turns out it starts doing AI at me if I hold the power button down to turn it off.
Execs: “AI engagement is extremely high.”
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
You should install Linux!
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
All of these people that want to end billionaires, or reduce their accumulated wealth, I have one question: if billionaires disappeared tomorrow would you still get through an entire day of your life? Imagine if the rich were eaten? Would you really be willing to give them up?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Look man, im already starving, you dont need to make me hungrier comparing it like that
rethnor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
🍆💦
IckabodKobain@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
I’m 50. I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet. I’ll adjust. It might be a pain without GPS, Google Maps. Being without a cell phone would be a big one for me as well. It’s not like we have pay phones anymore. And I would have to go back to pagers/beepers. But i would manage either way.
Godort@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The loss of AI would barely be noticable for the average person. A bunch of developers would have a bad day trying to remove all that integration they were forced by management to add, but beyond that, people would move on.
Removing the Internet as a whole at this stage would be basically impossible without halting pretty much every economic force on the planet, I think. The Internet acts as the backbone of pretty much everything related to monetary transactions or logistics in general.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Yep, and after IOT stuff even some people homes would have plenty of problems
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I’d say if we were to increase our resilience in an analogue world, we should start now while those who lived the analogue era are still alive and functional. Otherwise, we’ll see ourselves heavily dependent on power and data as long as modern civilisation exists.
Fawkes@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is wildly incorrect. If by AI you mean exclusively modern LLMs, then it would effectively halt quite a lot of modern research, including virology, epidemiology, physics, materials sciences, and many more.
If by AI you mean the actual definition of AI, then you can say goodbye to the Internet as we know it today. Translation services, fraud protection, GPS, 99.9% of all software development, etc. nobody had a problem with AI ~5 years ago. Those exact same algorithms are now flagged as evil because people misunderstand what they’re even complaining about.
The impossibility of removing the Internet is identical to the impossibility of removing AI. Or, if you use the incorrect term to mean LLMs exclusively, then say goodbye to quite a lot of critical modern research. I hope you don’t like antibiotics, because there was a recent breakthrough that used Evo 1 and Evo 2, both LLMs trained on genome data.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet.
I mean, I considered the internet a godsend for a whole host of reasons and have been much better off with it than without it. Auto-Nav alone has saved me more hours utterly lost in my car than I care to think about.
But i would manage either way.
Wouldn’t really have a choice.
But then that’s the thing with AI. It’s not “the internet”. It’s this superfluous annoying add-on that keeps getting forced into platforms I was perfectly happy to use without it.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not using any “forced on me” AI products, other than as a search engine aid, and I have better tools for that now anyway.
I do, absolutely use AI. I use local, self hosted small focused AI that run on old hardware I was just using to self host media and games anyway.
Want do my AI do? Lots of boring organizing, text/voice recognition, and script/simple coding for hobby projects and such, all offline. For online stuff there are private large Available, but those cost money and I’m cheap.
Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Work in cybersecurity. Don’t use AI. Thanks to AI all the search engines are fucked.
Please let it die.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Jokes on you, I use AI as a search engine to wade through all the other AI generated slop. It works some of the time, unlike google which is only ads.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I use a self-hosted combo of Hister (search engine with local index, you can get a browser extension to add pages you visit to the index so it basically searches your own browser history, it also bas a web crawler for building up your local index) and SearXNG (meta-search engine, it basically searches multiple normal search engines in the background, and you can route those searches through tor or a rotating list of proxies for increased privacy)
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This betrays such a lack of imagination (and probably empathy), as he is completely incapable of conceiving that people don’t use LLMs as much as he does.
Haters are absolutely people that use it all the time but are against it? For clout? To simply hate on something?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
I’m so close to being able to retire on all this clout I’ve amassed by not using AI.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Last time I sullied my fingers with a copilot prompt, it decided lobster was vegan so I immediately scrapped that idea and went back to real intelligence. I would be 100.00% delighted if “AI” disappeared.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This is the 3rd of 4th time recently that I’ve heard someone, directly or indirectly, describe AI like meth. The first one was Hank Green when he said something along the lines of getting hooked on ‘being able to get things done faster,’ which is exactly how many people end up meth-heads.
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
cocAIne
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s also how I felt when I was first prescribed stimulants
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
God please make ai go poof maybe there’d be some tiny chance of me getting a job after college (probably not)
HieroProtagonist@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It won’t go away. Yeah, the datacenter based stuff might, but local models will surely stay.
Honestly? Find a job outside the computer world
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
What’s scary is that AI as a service is really expensive, and the AI companies have been selling tokens as a severe loss all this time.
If you’re that dependent on AI, what happens when you have to bear the full price?
You’re going to give up your AI girlfriend, is what.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
This is really what has put me off AI, yes there are the ethical and environmental considerations and they worry me too but ultimately it’s the price, and the knowledge that the price inevitably will increase.
I don’t want to build all my workflows on a system that not only do I not really control I don’t even have a fixed price for. That just seems like a really bad design.
I also dislike using Microsoft 365 for the exact same reason. I do not want to rest my business model on someone else’s business model.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not anti-AI, but I’m most definitely anti-corporate greed. I wish there was moderation in all of this. I wish there were regulations instead of letting companies blindly buy hardware before it’s even made based on what they or their competitors might be doing 2 years from now. Fuck that.
With that said, yes, AI is a helpful tool, yes, I’m using it every day at work, and yes, I can do without it no problem - just like I have for many many years.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
AI has been in development for a long time, I remember learning about neural networks when I was at school in the 90s, they weren’t very sophisticated by all accounts but the research was there. What’s happened lately is that scientists have been replaced by tech bros and all the research is now happening out in public, Andy’s on sale, rather than in the labs where it can be regulated by people who are not purely profit motivated.
The internet didn’t vanish when the dot com bubble burst, all that happened was that businesses were more accurately assessed as to their market value. If anything, the internet was improved by the dot com bubble burst, does increase the number of actually practical ideas.
I suspect AI will be better once the AI bubble bursts, and the research goes back into labs and starts being done by ethical scientists again.
metalaco@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a very level headed take, thank you. Ai is so bad right now because of hype and overvaluation, not because the technology is inherently bad or good.
unknownman@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I like to think about the fact that most AI companies lose huge sums of money, and that it can’t really be maintained. It’ll naturally become an expensive tool after the “hype” dies down. It’ll no longer be worth it to put it in everything, to message random shit to it etc.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fair point, but the damage is done, the hardware market will take years to recover (if it ever does), not to mention the negative effect on the environment.
JoShmoe@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Anti-ai influencers using ai to complete their videos.
Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
people wouldnt just lie on the internet
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I dig trenches with a shovel. There is no USB port on my shovel. I thank the almighty gods for that small blessing.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
But it’s the universal shoveling bus
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’ve never understood the appeal of the “smartified” appliances. My TV is more annoying than it used to be because it has smart features, it was actually more useful when it was done and simply played broadcast television or whatever was fed to it varian HDMI port, I don’t need smart light switches, I can turn my own lights on it’s not that difficult, I don’t need to smart fridge either, not unless it’s going to stock itself.
I can’t think of a single piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis that would benefit from having internet connectivity added to it. I guess it would be nice if my wall clock updated when the hours changed due to daylight savings, but nothing other than that.
mp3@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I did the job before without it so yeah.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s a good accelerator for mundane tasks, and usually a good indicator that you could farm those tasks out to an intern.
You should give AI the same responsibility and trust that you give to a green intern because it will confidently fuck things up and requires an experienced eye to review anything it produces.
andxz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fuck was this clown doing 5 years ago? 10? Begging for change until slightly more advanced chat bots could do his “job” for him? What the fuck?
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These are things I already never use. Oh the horror
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it were banned, would it matter if you “willing” to give it up? Dumbass question.
And yes, I could my job easily.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yep. I could run one locally, it just wouldn’t be as good and I don’t see much benefit even with today’s models.
My computer belongs to me.
content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
The funny thing is that meth actually increases productivity in a way where YOU are actually doing the fucking work.
Unlike AI which not only does it for you so you begin to get rusty and lose your ability to be effective, but it gets all the work fucking wrong as well.
Essentially what I’m saying is that meth is a more effective workplace tool than AI. I’m sure a lot of psychopathic, shark tank type business people would agree with me.
I’m not trying to say meth is a good thing. I’m just saying it’s legitimately a more useful tool than fucking AI.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dont tgreaten me with a good time sir.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man the last thing i want to do is go through moon rune math on wikipedia when i need to solve a well defined problem in programming.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeh possibly a little early to pull that card, might make more sense for like “the internet” or something where it’s had about 30 years to become an essential part of people’s lives. Unlike a lot of the Lemmy audience who would clearly not be the type of people he’s thinking of, I actually do make use of some of those tools so I should really be exactly one of the types he’s thinking about but while I’ve developed that habit and would likely notice the absence of the tools for about a fortnight, it’d hardly make a massive difference.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes, because I don’t rely on AI or even computers to do my work. The joys of printed manuals and life experience. Only computer I use at work is a shitty old iPad and order software which uses an incredibly dated interface that’s never seen AI let alone a competent UX designer.
Darukhnarn@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
AI is a great help for coding. Not a substitute. But in general, the way ai is applied to everything it’s just annoying. I don’t need it in my search, my shopping, my car or anything like that. A tool is a tool and should be used responsibly. I mean I don’t try to chop my vegetables with a chainsaw, just because the chainsaw looks cooler than my knife and in theory can also chop vegetables as well.
polotype@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
There is no good use for LLMs and media generation as a whole, because none of the possible uses justify the costs of making these tools.
Expert programs (patern recognition, protein folding, speech generation) on the other hand, go right ahead.
rethnor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think those expert programs get labeled as ai anyway. Then the laundry thinks they can just ask any llm “how do I cure cancer”
Darukhnarn@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It can be an efficient tool to create a base for further work. If is have to choose between a programmer slaving away for weeks or months to build a solid framework, or an ai doing it in a few hours, I’d pick the ai, since it uses less resources. The programmer is better applied at working out the kinks and specifics.
chrisashtear@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It is a good tool for coding. I could complain about data mining issues with non local stuff like claude… But what really bothers me is how some programmers dont even check its output. For work they get PAID to do. Im not even talking about not checking the code. They dont even check the product to see if it works or not. I have had 2 cases of this on freelance contracts so far.
Darukhnarn@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That sucks.
subgenius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
AI is just more social enslavement fuckery
Epp@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
I would be very sad if it went away. It can perform tasks that are otherwise impossible without the expense of incredible amounts of the most valuable of all resources: time.
Thankfully I have it setup locally, so it’s not truly a potential outcome.
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
In Photoshop, do I lose access to content-aware fill or just generative fill? Which selection tools remain?
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Content aware fill isn’t considered AI, and came out in 2010
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
If content-aware fill launched today, I bet they’d call it AI. Algorithms were variably called AI in 2010, depending on what we were talking about. But Adobe marketed content-aware fill as “magic” more than anything.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Real talk. AI isn’t the problem. AI is nothing but a tool. It’s corporate greed that is the problem.
I use AI. It’s a fantastic tool. My QA time is slashed in 1/2. Reports that I have to do weekly is done so quickly, it might as well be instant. What used to take my 6 hours. Instant. . Everything is more efficient.
But it doesn’t replace humans. It just shifts the tasks. Instead of building reports and power points, I’m spending more time training my junior devs. It frees up my time to do other tasks is more important.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I use AI at work everyday. If it went away the only thing that would change is I’d just go back to googling stuff
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey there buddy, wanna overthrow the prime minister of Malaysia with me?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And if googling went away I’d just go back to those giant books with the animals on them.
foo@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You’d need to lift the monitors off them first.
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Has anyone ever opened one of those books? For all we know, they could just be a bunch of blank pages on the inside
vogi@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Fucking love holding raw knowledge with my bare hands.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sames. That said, if AI went away, we have a few already-deployed systems that would go poof too. They increase throughput of the humans doing real work (we’re not building reverse centaurs here). Since we implemented them, we’ve not needed to hire more.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
I’m required to use it for generating code. But that’s a small part of my job. Occasionally I’ll use it to research niche topics because it’s faster than a search but I’d be just fine without it. I spent 10+ years coding without AI. It’s just a tool, and one that’s easily misused by people with low aptitude. I see it all the time and have to leave comments and block PRs until people fix the slop it outputs.