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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I’m being fully FORCED to use AI on Google Office and it’s SO annoying. I don’t appreciate that after any Google Meets (which SUCKS by the way) that Gemini wants to send me a recap of the meeting. I DON’T WANT GEMINI ANYWHERE NEAR ME! Also, this AI Fiverr GO I keep getting force-fed in my YouTube Ads, that uses individual creators AI to generate content that looks like the content they’d create is absolutely insane and horribly dystopian.
What happened to art? What happened to appreciating the human spirit, and learning from our mistakes? Idk, but I’m tired.
AI could have been a really genius way for expanding our understanding of important issues, but instead it’s used just for people to honestly be lazy, and also creepy.
Weird Note: People falling in love with AI is honestly really tragic. But, as someone who has a grandmother who has repeatedly fallen for scammers due to loneliness, I would rather have her fall in love with AI versus someone who’s trying to get (and has successfully gotten) her bank account information to slowly take money from her and string her along via horribly photoshopped photos and copy & pasted poems found off of google with her name added to seem unique. Just strange to say I’d rather have my grandma fall in love with a robot vs a scammer 😂😂.
May 30, 2025
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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…
May 24, 2025
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Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old cliché, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
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a lot of places like pharmacies or libraries will provide it at no cost. it's a good thing to keep in your car or your bag, you never know when you might stumble across someone who needs it. if you're in the US, depending on your state, there's probably a directory you can find online of locations that provide it. i live in NY, and there's a publicly available list of all the participating pharmacies.
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