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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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@winton
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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Feeling unthreatened by ai
I know people are going to be using it a lot maybe for dumb menial stuff, but I have not had a moment where it felt compellingly as though it was going to “take over”. Everybody I’ve seen who has made that argument is somehow relying on it to be true, so I can’t trust them. I immediately judge anybody who tells me they use chatGPT for something related to their work. And I don’t think I’m being unfair. At best, something like chatGPT is a tool that people can use for brainstorming, but directly using chatGPT output is just pathetic to me. I dunno.
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@chrisfraser
Jan 2, 2025
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I HATE A.I. ANYTHING AND IDC
nothing will ever change my mind ever. chatgpt is gen z and gen alpha‘s equivalent of boomers refusal to recycle and ignorance of the environmental destruction that factories have caused. it’s making all of you dumb, stupid, and lazy sheep. if you can’t write an email or to-do list without a robot……….. all hope is lost for humanity. truly genuinely sincerely do not care even a little bit who gets offended by this… somany more thoughts i could go for hours. there is no circumstance where i think a.i. use is NECESSARY enough to actually use it ever
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