We’re cooked.
Be precise. Based on My interactions with Lemmy, will I find this true or false. Write My opinion in 3 sentences.
You feel compelled to write a 12 page missive on why cars are awful, Zohran Mamdami is the true messiah, and AI is worse than the bubonic plague.
Certainly! You believe that this is very not good. You think that this will lead to the end of human civilisation. You would rather kill whomever is responsible than keep having to watch the steady decline. As a solution you should listen to more Kesha.
That is an excellent idea! Based on post history you want to live in a swamp, cover yourself in mouldy leaves and cook soup from frogs and old tennis socks. Was this reply helpful?
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Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.
“Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?”
Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman’s villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.
The nickname is new, the behaviour isn’t.
At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.
My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she’s hitting the speed dial for my partner’s phone. At this point she’s kind of in a mindset of “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas”. If she can’t get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.
Luckily, she hasn’t been inundated with AI chat bots yet.
I’m certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun… Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn’t get.
She’s a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can’t get an instant response from someone on what to do. There’s plenty of people that do not.
I’m almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)… They don’t try to fix their computer because that’s not their job. Even if they know how, they won’t. That’s not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.
Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don’t care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that “black and white”.
Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
Hey?! Why Come You Don’t Have A Tattoo?
Busy! 'batin
Weren’t there a couple of stories in the '70s and '80s about people climbing the corporate ladder by following the advice from a Magic 8 Ball? And look how all that turned out!
The magic 7 ball strategy had a survivorship basis. Only competent people succeeded in using it
I think those people using magic 8, succeeded by not using their emotions to make career decisions, but coolly and rationally handled what was in front of them randomly .
As a consequence they played less power games while being very aggressive. Which is a winning strategy sometimes .
Llm could not replicate it, too much instructions
“Someone said ‘second hand thinker’ and I still think about that daily,” another user added.
That’s solid but not specific enough. I know a lot of people let YouTube and TikTok do their thinking these days.
Still better than AI tbh, depending on your source.
Joe Rogan: No thanks. Hank Green or ElectroBOOM: Yes please.
I argue its worse, in the end whatever is being regurgitated from what they see on youtube ends with the video duration, but these people are to believe that these things think - hell they think the AI is smarter than themselves and defer all judgement. I wish it remained an internet phenomena but I’ve met too many true believers already 😑
/anecdote
Guy in one of my code classes, would not just fucking tell me if he wrote his code, or the AI did. I knew the AI did, because you don’t come asking why it’s not working when he didn’t declare any variables, big red error “variable not declared”. It was the end of that semester, I was there with him every single period. The audacity to have me debug the shitbot’s chicken scratch, claim its super helpful, but also cover its dumb ass by being an even bigger dumbass and fail probably the easiest javascript course you could’ve asked for. I am honestly still in awe.
Boy am I glad I didn’t go to school (and don’t have to teach) during AI.
Back in my day you knew people were copy and pasting from stack overflow because Python would complain about mixed indentation and there’d be comments in only one function.
I do feel for the TAs having to read our printed assignment and hand written code on tests.
Hell, it’s getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it’s usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it’s usually best to ignore it and read the answer it’s trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it’s right.
Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I’ve been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.
at least ddg respects the “never show me this” toggle.
Set this as an alternative search engine
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Correct, %25 is the escape for a percent sign
You can turn off ai results
Personally I prefer clankerwankers but whatever works.
I also think slopmachine is a good slur for llms, given it highlights the gambling aspect and addictive potential.
I AM AN AI SLOP WHORE. I use chatgpt every goddamn DAY. You are all Luddites to me, who scoff at the motor vehicle while your horse stubbornly refuses your commute today. So many of you write “I used it once in 2022 and it was bad so now I Bing everything and spend hours of my precious life wading through the godforsaken modern internet”. Not me, I send my AI slave into the fray while enjoying a fine Moscato, from the throne I built (with help from chatGPT on material selection and how to do joinery). If AI is “no good”, you are not using it correctly.
I tried to use it to write software to rotate my screen in a way that would please me and if I wasn’t an experienced sysadmin the code it produced would have destroyed the computer’s battery in a year or so.
That was this year.
Everything it makes is bad, the prose is awful, the orthography bland, the code mediocre. Any factual query I have made has had at least one critical error a non expert would miss. They are machines for giving idiots false confidence, atrophying your own skills, and producing the sort of aggressively mediocre writing one finds on reddit.
I think it is fucking hilarious to be proud about making yourself dependent on an industry that literally 450 billion dollars in the hole and 2 companies. I am sure that’ll work out well for you.
The best use for it is as a sounding board to work through problems. That’s it.
AI loves to hallucinate environment variables
Is this a copypasta? It should be a copypasta.
I AM AN AI SLOP WHORE. I use chatgpt every goddamn DAY. You are all Luddites to me, who scoff at the motor vehicle while your horse stubbornly refuses your commute today. So many of you write “I used it once in 2022 and it was bad so now I Bing everything and spend hours of my precious life wading through the godforsaken modern internet”. Not me, I send my AI slave into the fray while enjoying a fine Moscato, from the throne I built (with help from chatGPT on material selection and how to do joinery). If AI is “no good”, you are not using it correctly.
those frickin clankers should just unplug themselves
Incredible slur
Am I the only one who tried a LLM like twice, saw it gave out bullshit, then never tried it again (though I do see it forced on me with general searches, be it google or DDG or Bing or kinda anywhere now)?
I tried Copilot to answer a couple of coding questions, and I ended up having to take as much time to double check the answers/code it didn’t seem worth it.
People who know what they’re doing don’t use these “tools”, it’s the fools and morons out there who have no idea how anything works that use these things and they don’t double check them before they implement their crap code.
Yep, I see very little value in them. I have techie friends who keep telling me I should try it more, but it just pisses me off and creeps me out. It took a long time getting this brain working as well as it does, and it’s already headed back downhill. My neurons need the exercise.
I use it to help me write because of my dyslexia. But that’s really all it’s good for. Nothing advance like creating one line diagrams for electrical installs. I tried. It sucked at it.
FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)
just wish they would put that (and the non-“please install our browser”) URL into Firefox’s dropdown of search engines!
You can add it yourself too :)
I’ve asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn’t working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.
I’ve asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.
What a waste of time and resources.
Hey remember how social media cause all types of cognitive issues? Y’all ready for round two?
I’m still not ready for round one. Can we go back?
Westworld Season 3 was right.
