Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive (www.theregister.com)

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Cross-posted from "Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive" by @along_the_road@beehaw.org in !technology@beehaw.org

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[-] self@awful.systems 26 points 3 weeks ago

Lack of familiarity with AI PCs leads to what the study describes as "misconceptions," which include the following: 44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic; 53 percent believe AI PCs are only for creative or technical professionals; 86 percent are concerned about the privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC; and 17 percent believe AI PCs are not secure or regulated.

ah yeah, you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC so you stop caring what a massive privacy and security risk both Recall and Copilot are

lol @ 44% of the study’s participants already knowing this shit’s a desperate gimmick though

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC

they haven’t released autoplag sexbots yet

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago

I’m pretty fucking tired of seeing all the ads for computers with integrated AI chips. You’re telling me you made an RV for the virtual dumbass and you want me to pay for it? Fuck off!

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

nope, they're still figuring out how to use it. It's just THAT good.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

I almost missed that they literally came back with "it can't be that dumb, you must be promoting it wrong"

[-] capital@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Remember when normies couldn’t even find what they wanted via normal web searches?

This seems like that.

[-] self@awful.systems 15 points 3 weeks ago

maybe it was a mistake to lionize a corporate monopolist to the level where we ostracized people for not being “good” at using their trap of a product

[-] capital@piefed.social -4 points 3 weeks ago

My school had a class in the early 2000's on how to use a search engine. It certainly wasn't just about Google, at the time.

Are you telling me you never had that painful experience watching someone else use a computer to perform a search and struggle to find basic things? It's possible to be "bad" at it.

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

congrats on asking jeeves

is it bad to be bad at a system designed for exploitation? maybe your grandma had a point

[-] apostrofail@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

in the early 2000s*

[-] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

What does three word normie mean to you

[+] capital@piefed.social -10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification.

Generally, people who don't know how to work with the systems. As it relates to newer LLM search tools, not knowing how to prompt it correctly to get the desired output, knowing the limitations of LLMs to prevent you from doing something stupid, and knowing to check the sources that most of these LLMs provide before fully trusting the info it provides.

Normies are the ones microwaving their phones after 4chan encouraged them to which happened way before LLMs were spitting out sometimes bad info. Those are the same people who are going to eat glue or whatever the LLM says because it read too much Reddit.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago

People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification

This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart

[-] capital@piefed.social -5 points 3 weeks ago

You misunderstood me.

The enshitification I was referring to is the increasingly bad, non LLM search results Google is returning.

I've said this elsewhere but a good 90% of my searches don't involve LLM results whatsoever.

Normies also don't seem to know what should stay a "standard" search (most searches, IMO) and what might be useful to utilize an LLM for.

I think your response is a bit aggressive TBH.

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

I think your response is a bit aggressive TBH.

nah, an aggressive response is me telling you to fuck yourself as I ban you for a second(!) time for making these exact terrible fucking posts

I’ve saved many hours of work with it, in languages I don’t really even know.

maybe by next ban you’ll figure out why your PRs keep getting closed

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

fucking imagine coming back to a place you’re not welcome with this “eeehhh you’re being a bit aggressive tbh” shit

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

That's just googling with several wildly pointless extra steps of also googling.

[-] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

We've come so far and yet some things never change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25J3u3P-HHg

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