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[–] StellarStoat@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago

I find myself only ever using AI for images and such anymore. It's clearly not competent enough to be trusted the way average people have been relying on it. I switched to open weight local models and they honestly seem to work better than the large online models with proper prompting, and acting as a assisting tool rather than a creativity/skill replacer. Still have to double check everything it outputs if it is critical information.

That said, I wouldn't be torn up in the slightest if it was gone right now.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's nice to have but I find myself using it less than I did ATM.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

A couple of times a week

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What does he think people did 5 years ago?

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Graduated high school

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

sounds like someone that never done meth. Meth might help you stop using AI.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think it would stop you doing a lot of things

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, they completely over estimate how many people actually use AI I guess? I have used it like 3 or 4 times ever in 2 years. Im pretty sure I will be iust fine. I would much rather see RAM prices return to normal so everything else would be normal.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used it intentionally right when chatgpt came out like twice. I thought it was a neat trick and show off of the advances im computer science and then never touched it again because its novelty ran its course.

However I do get the occassional annoying auto AI slop that google or whatever does which i actively then tell Ublock to block. I am so sick of this slop being shoved down our throats and into every stupid part of our lives. I wwas looking at appliances yesterday and saw AI powered fridges, fucking kill me.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago

I would have to draw on 48 years of lived experience over 18 months of hallucinated garbage oh noes

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I find the people who are worst at thinking use AI the most.

[–] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So, yeah. About that. A few weeks ago I was hiking with my wife. We saw another couple from out of town in the parking lot and chatted shortly and went our separate ways.

The trails here are somewhat interconnected and we ended up running back into them at a lookout. They recognised us and asked if we could ID some berries they ate.

I guess they asked ChatGPT what they were and it told then raspberries, so they ate them. They were in fact not raspberries. They were thimbleberries, which luckily are also edible, but still. They thought they tasted off, but chalked it up to just being wild vs store bought.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

What an incredibly idiotic thing to do! Both of them thought it was okay to trust the lie machine with their lives! Darwin award candidates.

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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

That's the whole point of AI. It does the 'thinking' for you.

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I've done my job just fine the last 10 years because I RTFM.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I mean I work in a slaughterhouse pulling carcusses with a hook from the cooler out to get cut up. Not sure how losing AI would impact my job.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not only do I not use a.i. in my job, I can't even think of any way a.i. could be even a minor help.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can automate sending emails that people won't read.

[–] savvie@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

you could automatically generate hundreds of millions of TrumpTroll robocalls from burner accounts offering credit up to $300,000 for businesses that don’t exist

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I have no need to do that.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could ask it how to do your job worse. In fact, asking the question is getting a headstart.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I already know how to do that. :)

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Since I haven’t used AI/LLMs for much at all, the answers are yes without question.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It's the worst version of ' if.. then... else' ever invented that get the 'else' 49% wrong.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Dumbest question I've seen all day.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I'd be 100% fine, and I'm a fucking systems analyst, a job where you'd think AI might actually be helpful.

But honestly, nope it's not. Even for basic data parsing and analysis, it takes more time for me to double check AIs work, understand what it's doing, then correct its mistakes than it would for me to just do it right the first time.

Let me put it another way; a job that takes me two hours on my own would probably take at least 3 hours if I had AI do it, when I factor in the proofing and corrections, plus there's the additional cost of the AI itself, so I have a hard time seeing how it will EVER be more cost efficient to use AI. Especially with ai prices keep going up, and its use raises overall energy prices for everyone.

It rarely saves time, and pretty much never saves money, so I'm kind of wondering what the point is, other than selling a pipe dream to dipshit boomer ceo's that don't understand basic math, but view employees as a wasted expense they want to get rid of

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

selling a pipe dream to dipshit boomer ceo's that don't understand basic math, but view employees as a wasted expense they want to get rid of

Seems to me that you totally understand what the point of "AI" is.

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[–] LavenderBreton@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ummm I don't really use any of those services. I don't see how it's bad to remove something utterly useless 🤷‍♂️

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Me being valued for my knowledge and experience again rather than expected to be a glorified babysitter to a child incapable of retaining anything meaningful?

Ya I could go back to that.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God that's depressing if it's real.

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[–] iusemybrain@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

on a abstract level, he is correct, using AI has the same effect as drinking alcohol which has the same effect of doing meth.

the people who use AI, if it were to all be taken away, would have the same problems (on an abstract level) as say a recovering alcoholic. As for those who haven't relied on it as much, you could think of it as a temporary blackout.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh my god I can’t wait

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I went 18+ years in my career without using it but I sometimes use it now. I could easily go back. Could the moron who wrote that?

[–] bobtimus_prime@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

Yes, yes I would!

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