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oh boy this one is gonna be controversial. first off to be transparent I am a huge nerd and train models for a living. that being said, I was a huge ai hater for a long time and never used it in anything I did. Then, I started using it a bit for coding, then for research (tool use ftw), then for a whole bunch of simple tasks I wanted to automate but couldn’t w pure code (either due to needing unpredictable input or needing buttons pushed). Is it super useful, not yet. Should we replace people with it, obviously not. But like dude. You can TALK to your computer in ENGLISH (or french, arabic, japanese, etc.) and it will understand you and respond. I think the like crazy shift in human - computer interaction here is kinda slept on ngl, I fw this heavy now.
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@joos
Feb 24, 2025
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@soft
In my life I have absolutely no use for it but I imagine it would be so exciting if I did so I understand you! Also I feel like this is ultimately what we’ve always dreamed of computers being and now it’s here everyone’s being such a baby about it. Like ok don’t use it but don’t pretend it isn’t sick as hell that we have the option lol
Feb 25, 2025
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@joos
soft yes this exactly! like a keyboard an mouse and a badly designed app is not the way the internet should be experienced, I want to talk to it and for it to understand what I mean even when I don’t
Feb 25, 2025
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@wynton
i think there are two discussions, the usefulness of ai and the Philosophical Debate of are we letting the computers get away with too much (your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should, etc) that being said! it is very useful for coding, instead of having to read a buncha stack overflow mumbo jumbo it's like there is a little person in your computer who speaks normally and can teach u to code but idk if the usefulness of it outweights the "well if we're just gonna automate everything and let the computers live our lives why are we even here on god's green earth" What A Time To Be Alive
Feb 24, 2025
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@soft
winton You can still swim in rivers, make love, eat cherry pies, have dreams and visions. The computers aren’t taking away anything you actually enjoy doing it’s ok.
Feb 25, 2025
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@joos
Ok to clarify a bit, I think people hate the corporateness of AI, not AI itself. There is a lot of cool things you can do with AI and I think it also sucks in a lot of places, but I do think the absolute disdain for it is a little misplaced (this is solely related to text, I don’t have opinions on image AI)
Feb 24, 2025
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@worldonfire
🗣️ HELL NAH
Feb 24, 2025
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@jeannedielman
boo boooo tomato !!! 🍅🍅🍅 (no but actually, i don’t think any amount of talking to AI could ever come close to a meaningful conversation with a real life person, especially w/ someone you’ve just met) maybe it’s bc i’m not a computer person but i don’t see it ever serving me any purpose. what good could talking to a computer ever bring? (again, no disrespect)
Feb 24, 2025
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@joos
andresfranco i mean this more in a sense of, we use computers every day to do tons of things. ai lets you do all those things through your language instead of having to know how to code/using some shitty website that doesn’t work.
Feb 24, 2025

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my controversial take on ai
I don’t hate it. It helps me. I am actually thankful for it. I have seen a lot of ‘what’s hot’ posts here bashing on ChatGPT. But here’s my experience. I have dyslexia, which is why a lot of my posts have gramma issues/spelling mistakes (and why I edit my posts so much). I can’t pick them alone. ChatGPT corrects that for me. I like to write stories, it is a big hobby of mine. And I need to write professional emails for work. It helps me where I cannot help myself. I need to write a resume but I can’t read/process the job description/requirements properly? I copy and paste the information into ChatGPT and ask it to highlight what is important. Work requires me to read lengthy documents? I can read until I get stuck and AI will help me. I need to do research for university? I can’t digest all the information and pages that load on my topic of interest, so I will ask ChatGPT to recommend me specific articles to read based on what I need. Of course I try and do as much as I can independently, but extra help that’s free never hurts. A lot of people are hating on AI, but it helps people, despite the greater population abusing it.
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@jilly
Jan 28, 2025
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DEPENDS ON FORM AND APPLICATION
I worked in a lab that used machine learning to identity things about cells and tissues that would take a human years just due to how time consuming it would be to count and compute by hand. Other science applications are potentially finding cancer earlier and earlier for better outcomes. People also sometimes clown on people who need chatgpt to make a grocery list for them, but I think assisting people with ADLs could be really beneficial too (though there’s getting to be some tricky nuance with people using it for too much instead of letting themselves be challenged a little and idk where to draw that line). I just don’t want restaurants to use AI generated photos on their menus, I get uneasy with people submitting photos of themselves to be transformed with AI, and I don’t think art, poetry, literature, etc should use AI. The whole point of being creative is to do the creating, not to get a computer to do it for you lol. And people said similar things about digital art, but with that you’re still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isn’t even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if it’s stolen…
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@random-gay-nerd
May 24, 2025
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AI = Alienation increaser
nah, i wouldn't use it like that, and i'd strongly recommend that no one does. there have been various pieces written about AI inducing what is essentially religious/spiritual psychosis in people, some of which have even lead to divorce. but, even aside from that, replacing human interaction, companionship or therapy, with a hyper-advanced predictive text chat bot will do nothing but further alienate people, especially under capitalism. i think using it to talk to someone that's deceased isn't quite as bad as the latter, but is still very bad. understanding and coping with mortality is something that humans have been doing the entire time we've existed, and a key part of the way we process death involves not being able to talk to the deceased person anymore. aside from completely removing that aspect of the experience of losing a loved one, what are the ethical implications of this, and how would one even feasibly "get their loved one into the LLM?" would you have to upload their all of their diaries to some cloud based AI service? would you have to painstakingly write their biography into the prompt field yourself? i think a lot of people are using "AI" (i hate that its even called that) for things that it should never have been used for. use it as a tool to summarize your emails and make lists, not as a therapist or girlfriend.
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