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What's your overall opinion on generative AI? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by LeftReddit2@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Just gonna say it, back in like 2019-2023, I was EXTREMELY pro AI. I messed around with OpenAI's playground thing, messed around with that Dall-E Mini/craiyon thing, and was one of the first to hop on ChatGPT when it came out.

I had this really dumb opinion that it's just fun stuff to mess around with! This isn't gonna do any real harm! Thinking, stupidly, that most people wouldn't use it to like replace writers or just do their work for them.

It was around 2024 I became a lot more skeptical of it. I kept seeing slop art in like local restaurants and even this one club I used to hit up that I absolutely don't anymore. And the amount of time people say "I asked ChatGPT" drives me up the wall.

Like are you third partying your thinking!? And seeing it just dominate Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and TikTok also made me begin to lose it. It was literally the Dead Internet Theory becoming a fact. I felt like such an idiot for being pro-AI and thinking people would use it wisely.

That said, I'm not exactly anti-AI, to be fair. I have local LLM models on my computer running through LMStudio if I ever have want or need of these chatbots. It makes it way harder to use it and my poor gaming laptop screams for mercy every time I want to use Qwen, so I dunno.

I guess I'd say I'm AI-Skeptical and leaning more toward negative. But this isn't about me, it's about you. What do you feel about generative AI?

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[–] Toasticus@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

It has its uses. It's just ruined by the bad apples of people who've long have had malicious intent where if you put anything that was intended for a good purpose in front of them, they'd ruin that for everyone.

For example, when there are things I do not know about like objects, I can take a picture of it, direct and show ChatGPT by asking what it is and it'll tell me. It's convenient to talk to an LLM to understand phrases, slang, slurs and their history about them in real time. I also have enjoyed using it to fix and enhance images that my phone's piss-poor autofocus fucks up on with some images.

I think what really ruins AI is that, select people and companies are way too heavily reliant. It is not a solve-everything tool. It is not something you go to about everything, like mental therapy. It is not something you should be using to cheat on homework, to have it help you with getting by in colleges and school that rely on your own problem solving skills to navigate.