If LLMs (since AI is not a thing that actually exists) were banned tomorrow, I’d be pretty grumpy that I had to go back to using the garbage fire that is modern search engines. And I’d be grumpy that I had to go back to writing boilerplate code myself. And then I’d get over it and move on with my life.
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Yeah, I'm fine with giving up something I never used.
And, from what I've read many of the people who use it for work only do so to appease their idiot bosses.
it’d be annoying for like 2 sec giving up better auto complete when i’m writing code (keywords: when IM writing code), or “intuitively find and replace non-identical things based on what i just did”
and then id get over it because i could buy RAM again
"intuitively find and replace non-identical things based on what i just did”
We had that 5 years ago with GitHub Copilot, and things have only gone downhill from there...
I am pretty much forced to use AI at work, and I still come home and write code by hand because I enjoy it. A good language server is much more helpful than the LLM autocomplete if you already know what you're trying to write.
Does this guy actually think the average AI-hater is also addicted to it?
That person probably exists, but they're nowhere close to the majority.
I think the number of average, non-tech users is climbing rapidly... they just don't realise how it's enshitifying their lives yet.
A bit like the content in your ... are you aware of how bad that's getting?
Yes. Tech bros always seem to live in a bubble where everyone is like them.
I admit, I'm tempted to read the AI answer when I search something; but holy crap is it a patronizing waste of time. Just now I was searching about a game and the long page of AI answer essentially boiled down to "kill stuff to get stronger," like brah, I know, I'm trying to look up exact formulas here, you piece of shit.
My questions are never answered by it, and when it tries, it's wrong even with follow up info. Man I really could live without it, lol.
Edit: oh, and this is a relatively new game but on both Google and Bing indexes, the first page and a half are clearly AI generated. Same boilerplate nothingburger answers. No surprise the search AI isn't good, it's regurgitating other AI answers. MAN I could live without it.
The stupid thing about ai's seems to be that they are so confidently wrong/guessing when they don't have the slightest idea. Almost like they've been told to never say "I don't know".
All they are doing is giving you a string of words that statistically follow each other. It can't say "I don't know" because it has no criteria for knowing.
Yeah they're particularly bad with games (like responding the wrong question) and scholarship
I think the AI summary is one of the only vaiable things if it comes to AI. And i mean just to figure out if you wanna read into it, not even to use it in any other way.
If you don’t use AI of course you won’t miss it.
I use AI and still want it to fuck off.
Spoiler
It’s integrated into some systems I use at work and while it can be handy I wouldn’t give a shit if it was gone tomorrow since it’s better for humanity as a whole if it’s gone.
We got through workdays without LLMs only a FEW years ago. Except the hype for AI not much has changed since then. This alone should be proof that it's possible.
Yeah, if it weren't for organizations adapting all their workflows and processes to involve as much LLM as possible it probably wouldn't be as costly to eventually switch back to minimizing its usage to specific, more useful stuff (like debugging)
Tell me you’ve completely forgotten how to do your job without telling me you’ve completely forgotten how to do your job.
You're assuming they ever knew in the first place.
I like LLMs even with their (big and inherent) flaws.
However, I also don't like it to be sprinkled everywhere. I want affordable smaller LLMs that run locally on my own hardware. RAM prices right now make that financially impossible for me.
That way I'm the one who has to deal with the flaws (even more with smaller LLMs) and the energy prices but on the other hand it's private and I have sovereignty. Nobody can turn off features or change the model or increase subscription prices or change the API or steal my data.
Stupidest question I've seen in a while.
There are no stupid questi…
Ok, there’s at least one stupid question.
If you can't do you job without ChatGPT or similar, you are disgustingly unqualified for that job.
Lol generative AI does absolutely nothing for me. Zero. I use computers and mobile devices for hours a day, and AI doesn't help with a single task. Throw it out, no problem.
I've used ChatGPT to make a couple funny images. Since you can only generate one every couple days, even if it gets something wrong and you want to make a revision, "sorry I can't do that until your timer resets," it's just not really worth it to try, unless you pay I guess, but I don't want to pay for it. I've had it answer a couple questions that stumped Google, and it got them right, just a matter of, "we're hanging out and we have a debate that Google/IMDb can't easily solve" so we ask the chat bot, it gives the answer, we all agree it's good enough, then we move on.
If all the AI chat bots went away tomorrow, I wouldn't miss them. I use Apple tech and we have the worst AI platform. I'm in the iOS/macOS 27 beta with the "New" Siri, and it's not very good at all. I guess it's better than the old one? Still nothing to make OpenAI (ChatGPT) worry. Never used Grok or Meta AI, and I think I tried Gemini once? Never used Claude. Asked Copilot things at work. Not work related, even though we have "Enterprise data protection" turned on, which means it won't send your queries to the cloud or learn from you. I still don't trust it. Definitely don't like it. But it's an amusing tool sometimes. If it fucked off tomorrow, it wouldn't be soon enough, and nothing of value would be lost.