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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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What OpenAI and similar companies want to achieve is for us to literally let them think for us with their AI, for them to "think" the ideas for us, reason for us, make the decisions for us, and be the creative and intellectual engine of humanity. "For world domination?", no, just for profit.

They want to make us dependent on their services so they can then charge us a fortune for their regurgitated ideas. Cuz at this moment the only way to make insane amounts of profit is to take away form us all that we want and need. Our labor, our attention, our reasoning, Everything.

"Welcome, My son.
Welcome to The Machine
What did you dream?
It's alright,
We Told You What To Dream"

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This has been happening LONG before AI. AI is just the newest version of it

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's also not the first or only 21st century technology that is or was waaaaaaaaay overhyped.

First it was the Blockchain

Then it was the Cloud

Now it's Artificial Stupidity.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 17 hours ago

Dunno, "the cloud" is still a thing. It's basically normal operation to use cloud servers from Amazon or Microsoft or whatever. Everyone is using Google's Cloud to store their private photos and emails and appointments and contacts.

And with Google's integration of AI into search and phones, Microsoft's integration of AI into Windows and just the sheer volume of porn you can produce, AI is also here to stay, whether we like it or not. Not to mention the legitimate uses in science.

And it's not like AI is getting any worse. We can do stuff with it that was simply unthinkable merely ten years ago. Give it another ten years and it will be almost perfect.

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's why the reference to the 1975 Pink Floyd song "Welcome to the Machine".