Fuck AI

Stop making using AI sound based

Just because it's generic doesn't mean it's AI generated

I've been using a cartoonish profile picture for my work emails, teams portrait and other communications for many years. There is almost no way to tell that kind of icon apart from AI generated icons at that size anyway.

And even if it was, that's not the point of the conversation. Fixating on that is such bad faith it betrays a defensiveness about AI generated content, so it's particularly important that someone like you get this message, let me reiterate clearly:

I have a role of responsibility, I hire people and use company budget to make decisions on other companies and products we'll be paying for. When making these decisions I don't look at the email signatures of people or the icons they use. I look at their presentation materials and if that shit is AI generated I know immediately it's just a couple people pretending to be an agency or company, or some company that doesn't quality-control their slides and presentation decks. It shows laziness. I would rather go with a company that has data and specs rather than lean on graphics anyway. So if those graphics are also lazy AF that's a hard pass. Not my first rodeo, I've learned to listen to experience.

Eventually they will pay AI companies to integrate advertisements into the llm's outputs.

It's so annoying because you're correct. I'm finding it harder and harder to use a search engine for things. Hell, the web in general is becoming unusable. It's all shit.

Never thought about ear protection for concerts, sounds cool. I'll have to look into other options though, if anyone has any recommendations, let me know

I'm glad you mentioned the company directly as I also want to steer clear of companies like this.

That would've been such an easy disputed charge and get the plugs somewhere else. I'm not wasting a second on something like that, just telling my credit card company they didn't uphold their end of the deal, and that's that. I will lose hearing out of spite if this happened to me, because I'm an idiot.

I have ADHD and I have to ask A LOT of questions to get my brain around concepts sometimes, often cause I need to understand fringe cases before it "clicks", AI has been so fucking helpful to be able to just copy a line from a textbook and say "I'm not sure what they meen by this, can you clarify" or "it says this, but also this, aren't these two conflicting?" and having it explain has been a game changer for me. I still have to be sure to have my bullshit radar on, but thats solved by actually reading to understand and not just taking the answer as is. In fact, scrutinizing the answer against what I've learned and asking further questions has felt like its made me more engaged with the material.

Most issues with AI are issues with capitalism.

I don't think AI is actually that good at summarizing. It doesn't understand the text and is prone to hallucinate. I wouldn't trust an AI summary for anything important.

Also search just seems like overkill. If I type in "population of london", i just want to be taken to a reputable site like wikipedia. I don't want a guessing machine to tell me.

Other use cases maybe. But there are so many poor uses of AI, it's hard to take any of it seriously.

Its just a statistics game. When 99% of stuff that uses or advertises the use of "AI" is garbage, then having a mental heuristic that filters those out is very effective. Yes you will miss those 1% of useful things, but thats not really an issue for most people. If you need it you can still look for it.