Ai pisses me off so much every day. It has made people so dumb and reliant on it. When I was a kid I didn't have school or opportunities, just a computer. That computer expanded my universe and gave me the education I craved. I learned to fix computers both physically and virtually to eventually claw my way to my current software engineering career. All completely self taught with ZERO education. When I say zero I mean the last grade of school I graduated was 6th grade in 2001. I am still learning every day despite the ai bullshit. Especially these past 6 months, I decided to upgrade my personal computer that was using windows 7(lmao 🔥) to a newly built machine now running on Linux.

I refuse to use AI. I have proven over and over to my coworkers that AI makes our job worse. My coworkers create so many mistakes with AI and then they ask me to help because they don't quite understand what AI has written for them. Ai is a plague on our intelligence. I hope it completely fails (it probably won't 😖)

As far as I'm concerned the generative AI that we see in chatbots has no goal associated with it: it just exists for no purpose at all. In contrast to google translate or other translation apps (which BTW still use machine learning algorithms) have a far more practical use to it as being a resource to translate other languages in real-time. I don't care what companies call it (if it's a tool or not) at the moment its a big fucking turd that AI companies are trying to force feed down our fucking mouth.

You also see this tech slop happening historically in the evolution of search engines. Way before we had recommendation algorithms in most modern search engines. A search engine was basically a database where the user had to thoughtfully word its queries to get good search results, then came the recommendation algorithm and I could only imagine no one, literally no one, cared about it since we could already do the things this algorithm offered to solve. Still, however, it was pushed, and sooner than later integrated into most popular search engines. Now you see the same thing happening with generative AI...

The purpose of generative AI, much like the recommendation algorithm is solving nothing hence the analogy "its just a big fucking turd" is what I'm trying to persuade here: We could already do the things it offered to solve. If you can see the pattern, its just this downward spiraling affect. It appeals to anti intellectuals (which is most of the US at this point) and google and other major companies are making record profit by selling user data to brokers: its a win for both parties.

Computers can and still do all that, you just need some mental discipline to avoid the cognitive equivalent of fast food being forced into your attention via AI slop and social media demagogues over corporate owned messaging systems.

Switching to Linux a few years ago gave me (at last part of) that feeling back

The LLM is absolutely not doing anything thinking for you. It's can, at best surface someone else's thinking based on a prompt.

Anyone that confuses what these things do with thinking is on a path towards psychosis.

Every 4 hours spent talking to one of these things is indistinguishable from talking to oneselves for 40 hours. It amplifies one's inner thoughts in ways that prevoisly only a schizophrenic was able to enjoy.

Librarian here, can confirm.

I started my Master's in Library and Information Science in 2010. We were told not to worry about the internet making us obsolete because we would be needed to teach information literacy.

Information literacy turned out to be something people didn't want. They wanted to be told what to think, not taught skills to think for themselves.

It's been the single greatest and most expensive disappointment of my life.

AI isn't the only thing you can use a computer for now. If you ignore AI and corporate software, there's loads of mind expanding activities in computing.

Take a look at what you can self host with commodity hardware (barring the insane RAM prices right now).

Any good thing will inevitably be corrupted by capitalism, because that is what capitalism does. It is a cancer, and it will consume everything and us all in the process.

I don't know if it was in Strauss' "Accelerando" that humanity told an AI to solve some complex problem at any cost, and the AI promptly turned all the matter in the solar system into a supercomputer capable of solving it.

That's capitalism in a nutshell: "do profit" is the only imperative, and it will destroy everything, just like a cancer is predicated upon "do growth", forever, at any cost, regardless of whether the host organism dies.

With AI, now it does the thinking for you [...]

No, it doesn't. It's just mimikry. Autocomplete on steroids.

Thank you...

Apparently, I've never ever considered any LLM serious, convenient, appropriate, similar to Markov's chain, though those differ, and I disable and uninstall absolutely everything that is LLM related, or alters human effortful works, including programming suggestions, searching, and in any kind of adequate research, in the personal life or everywhere possible since 2021 (and some in 2023), where I had a few months of experimenting with those - enough to consider the time I still have to continue actually learning, discovering, and staying social as much as I can...

Please... Please, in context of such education... instead of investing your priceless, precious, finite life time... into such empty void as unknown output of unknown LLM from unknown dataset of unknown artists... developers... people... Please, instead, please consider to take your time... and try to see the love in someone's else works, courses, videos, books, articles, schemes, tables, drawings... who would be only heartfelt delighted to know... to know that someone else like you, like themselves... were reaching out for their experience they were gaining for decades and worked hard to prepare it for someone out there... in search... for someone who wishes and tries to create something, to improve the world... to reach for an achievement... to treasure a goal... to invent a miracle...

Since isn't the following the miraculous purpose to live and contribute to the infinite world? To gain experience by confident, adequate effort, to work towards achievements, to stay responsible as a human, to stay alive... Which is at least: personal contributions published, social interactions, actually felt and considered facts organized by accountable people, self-confidence and miraculous time you invest into learning the human experience published in marvelous works of books, articles, videos, forums, chats - the ineffable magnificence...

There's use for LLM, including pentesting, medicine and analyzing of unknown and random for the sake of random in scopes of "black-box", for example, sure, but overly rarely and the fear of malformed facts, unknown sources, disturbed art... will always shadow any presence of such generative technologies, I believe... Yet, shouldn't technology support you, your mind (i.e. not atrophy it but train and discipline it), your creativity, your ideas, your... existence?

Since isn't learning from someone else experience is actually important... Isn't it ineffably magnificent to discover someone's hard work... Isn't the process of learning and discovering actually fun!
Isn't the knowledge that you unique carry valuable... What is the fun, the purpose, otherwise...?

Please consider your confidence, skills, mind, and... your precious time...

"If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product." ~ Tristan Harris
"Machines should work; people should think." ~ IBM Pollyanna Principle

I don't think AI is taking jobs, I think dumbass execs use it as an excuse to fire people though.

Yep, its definitely gotten worse. Thats why I just live as if its 2005 in my house xD