I’m talking about for anything.

I ask because, although I am wary about the effects of AI and things made with it, I can’t help but notice it’s becoming a bigger part of my every day life.

It’s just so convenient to use it as an assistant where I can get answers to difficult or obscure questions on the fly.

I’m imaging this might be part of the ploy by AI companies. Once AI is so integrated in our lives, we won’t want to do without it. It’d be like taking away electricity.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m required to use it a little bit for my job. (I’m a software developer). I do the absolute minimum I can with it, then don’t touch it the rest of the day.

    Reasons:

    • It’s an ongoing environmental disaster.
    • It’s a giant plagiarism machine.
    • If you’re trusting its output, you’re being foolish.
    • The business model for them being profitable doesn’t exist. I don’t want to depend on a technology I consider a dead end.
    • They make you stupid. If you get hooked on using them, then when the bubble finally pops and most of these bullshit purveyors fold, you’ll have already forgotten how to think and research for yourself. The imaginary “convenience” of being confidently and convincingly lied to by a large language model isn’t worth it.

    Ask one how to cook a turkey, it will give you convincing and unsafe instructions. Ask it if any mammals fly airplanes, it will gaslight you into thinking none do (humans are mammals). Ask it to do any task involving parsing the letters in words, and instead of honestly telling you it can’t, it will give you utterly incorrect responses.

    These tools aren’t fit for purpose. They’re shiny and fast and wrong in both obvious and subtle ways.