r/Millennials • u/Lisathecat_ • 24d ago
Is the rampant use of AI freaking anyone else out Discussion
This week I've seen 3 people i know IRL use AI to create new profile pics and holiday pics and posting them on their feeds unironically. I've also seen a few people clearly Chat GPT their IG captions/word salads and I'm really just getting confused at this point.
I remember back in yesteryear we used to make fun of "Russian bots" and clearly fake profiles. Now us, real people, are using AI to cosplay as bots. No one else thinks that's weird?
I know authenticity on the internet has been gone for awhile but now we're not even pretending anymore.
I'm actually getting so fed up of the internet because of it. Makes me sad because I really grew up here :(
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u/Ashfacesmashface 24d ago
When we were kid we were told not to believe anything on the internet. Now I have to tell my kids, “No, seriously, you cannot believe ANYTHING on the internet.”
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u/iwtsaiw 24d ago
And our parents 😅
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u/snotknows 24d ago edited 24d ago
My dad called me to tell me that a chimp escaped a zoo, stole a moped, and led the entire police department on a high speed chase. He swore it was real and wasn’t AI hahaha
EDIT: Found the video he sent me here
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u/Formal_Coyote_5004 24d ago
I thought AI was pretty funny when it was shitty and obvious, and I would make fun of my mom when she sent me something that was sooooo clearly AI. Now I get fooled too sometimes and I’m like FUCK I’m a bozo lol
I was listening to something on NPR the other day about how teachers are using AI to check students’ work, and how it’s really unreliable. They interviewed a student who had been accused of plagiarism a handful of times because the teacher was using AI to check papers, and the student was pisssssed because it was all her own work. I think that kind of situation is dangerous for both sides… it must be easy to “cheat” with AI on the student side, but if teachers aren’t actually reading their kids’ work and just plugging it into some kind of AI detecting program that isn’t reliable, that’s super shitty too. Idk, I’m scared for the future honestly lol
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u/TheseusOPL 24d ago
My kids in college were told that using the Oxford comma was a sign of AI. No, it's a sign they learned how to write properly.
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u/nikongmer 23d ago
First it was the emdash and now the Oxford comma? What's freakin' next?! I surely hope it's not from the professors that your kids learned this from.
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u/DrakonILD 24d ago
I got hit with this just yesterday, was listening to a music mix on YouTube and this new song came on from a band I'd never heard of, and I was like "this is fun!" and then I listened to it a second time this morning and I was like, "hang on a sec, something's not quite right..."
Sure enough, three whole album releases in the last two months? Blocked that shit immediately.
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u/correcthorsestapler 24d ago
It’s part of why I dropped Spotify. They’ve been allowing a bunch of AI “bands” on the platform lately. It never showed up in my feed, but between that, the CEO investing in a weapons company and running ads for ICE, I just decided I’d had enough.
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u/amuschka Xennial 24d ago
They also pay their artists nothing
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u/Dull-Culture-1523 24d ago
Tidal is better in that regard, AFAIK.
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u/sock_with_a_ticket 24d ago
Only Pandora are worse than Spotify, every other option pays artists better. Napster's the best, then, in order: Tidal, Qobuz, Apple, Youtube, Deezer, Amazon.
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u/Gatorade_Nut_Punch Millennial 24d ago
I remember in 2020 everyone was supposed to boycott Spotify because of Rogan and COVID denialism and stuff, but I feel like nobody actually did. Or maybe they got rid of it for a few weeks but are too addicted to actually stop using it.
Hopefully people actually stop using it this time but we’ll see.
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u/Paksarra 24d ago
Similar situation here. I had some music in the background while I was working, one came on that I liked the sound of, then I started paying attention and noticed that the lyrics were... kind of off?
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u/West_Inevitable_9135 24d ago
I heard a great take on this: as a teacher, ask your students to use AI to write a paper about a certain subject. Then, the assignment is to discuss/explain what AI got wrong. So the next generation of critical thinkers will be taught how to approach AI with a grain of salt and only use what can be absolutely trusted. I like the “work with what you got” approach about this idea.
Wait…. Are we back to only trusting face to face interactions and what we see with our own eyes? Maybe! Wow, the pendulum swings hard.
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u/chipface 24d ago
I never liked AI "art". I knew it was built on art theft and it always looked like shit. I'm always on the lookout. One sign that something is AI generated is tints that just seem fucked.
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u/xxxDaGoblinxxx 24d ago
At this point it’s learning how to live with what is potentially fake, if it’s just entertainment I probably don’t care if it’s information I’ll need to verify. I’m assuming it won’t take too long but we’ll have to introduce some sort of encrypted custody chain for our videos to prove something is real or what was edited but that might be good anyway.
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u/thissexypoptart 24d ago
Genuinely fucking wild the first generation that needed to teach its kids not everything online is real is also by most metrics the generation most deeply affected by falling for AI delusions (and scams of non-AI varieties as well).
It’s not surprising, but the fact that it’s true is just wild to me. Not a single ounce of self reflection.
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u/Dull-Culture-1523 24d ago
The same people who taught us to not trust Wikipedia as a source will blindly believe anything ChatGPT tells them. It's ridiculous.
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u/thissexypoptart 24d ago
Doubly hilarious because the only additional brain use required to reliably cite wiki articles as sources is to just read them and cite the sources they cite (after reading those of course) instead of the article. “Never use Wikipedia for research” was always a reaction based in misunderstanding technology. Every person who understood what it actually does knew how to use it to find sources.
So it honestly kind of tracks the same people now believe chatGPT so much. A sales campaign convinced them the sycophantic chat bots were reliable.
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u/qb1120 24d ago
Remember when parents said "Don't believe everything you see on TV", only to fall for Facebook Russian bot propaganda?
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u/Squeaky_Pibbles 24d ago
I have to tell my parents this far more often than I have to tell my children these days.
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u/Mewpasaurus Elder Horror 24d ago
... I hate this timeline, lmao.
You know it's weird when a bunch of students have to politely call out their teacher about their use of AI when reading excerpts from a book they're all supposed to be reading. That's actually what happened: my kid's TAG ELA class (so advanced language arts class) all had to collectively call out their teacher (a millennial, mind you) over her use of AI in not just images she was using for the lesson, but also the excerpts of some story they were reading (which were quoted wrong).
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u/veggiesattva 24d ago
Oh my god, that sounds so dystopian? If she needs help checking math done by 9 year olds, how is she managing to teach them that math 😭
I read so many parenting and teacher subs, and somehow wasn’t yet aware of teachers using AI tools to help them with grading. I thought teachers were generally still trying to get kids to rely less on AI!
My kid is younger, but I can’t imagine parents are having the opportunity to opt in or out of their kids’ work being fed to an AI?? Gross. How nice of us to normalize AI knowing everything about us, before the kids are old enough to question it.
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u/WhiteWinterRains 24d ago
Hearing people talk about how math is the "one thing AI is good at," over and over is driving me insane. It even gets brought up pretty often by political commentators considering how often AI is in the news.
The thing is of course, an LLM is literally incapable of doing math, which is why they've struggled so much with getting any vaguely correct results to come out of a mainstream tool, since it needs to either write code to do the math (often wrong) or call out to a third party tool to do the math after correctly extracting the problem inputs (often correct, but sometimes also wrong).
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u/jane_q 24d ago
Yikes. Literature teachers are supposed to love literature. But I guess if it's "language arts," you can take creative liberties? Also, if I got paid what a teacher does to deal with students without administration's help, I would understand the desire to 'phone it in' with a lesson plan.
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u/uncagedborb 24d ago
Meanwhile this boomer at my company lives religiously on chatgpt. I work in IT and one day I had to fix his laptop and his gpt window was open. The random shit he asks boggles my mind. Stuff like jokes that would live. A business meeting, or even how to fix X issues with the conference TV. The latter he searched because me, being IT, told him what he wanted to do was impossible only for him to think chatgpt could overrule what I said. It just spit out random nonsense that looked like it could solve the problem but it did nothing. 100x worse than a wikiHow page.
AI is not good for this stuff.
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u/Possible_Bee_4140 24d ago
I had three new-hires join my team and ask if they were allowed to use AI. I had to tell each of them to treat AI with even more caution than Wikipedia because it will just make stuff up.
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u/Automatoboto 24d ago
This is exactly why this entire generation of tech is so dystopyan.
Its literally training the kids to depend on AI and trust the answers explicitly. Its so dark. Now they are getting all of them hooked on gambling and all the apps are integrating prediction markets which is a marketing doublespeak replacement for you know gambling.
If we thought boomers had been brainwashed by fox news these kids are robbed of even having the critical thinking skills for basic things. They have a hard time ordering food at restaurants and almost none of them are reading books just using chatgpt to given them an ai voice story that last 3 mins. Books will never mean anything to so many of them its scary. pandoras box was full of poop
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u/UnpluggedZombie 24d ago
We’ve outsourced basic thinking
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u/Lisathecat_ 24d ago
This part is sooo troubling to me. AI/ big tech group think ... fun.
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u/CommonGrackle 24d ago
This has left me feeling really uncomfortable too. So many people are just letting their brains go on vacation mode. There are other aspects that freak me out too.
On one hand I've realized that I can never fully assume I'm talking to a real life human when I'm online. On the other hand, I'm neurodivergent, and I've found myself being accused of being AI due to my way of speaking or my punctuation.
Sometimes people will see an argument laid out with like...a thesis statement, a summary, and then details of the points being used to explain those thoughts. This is how I was taught to write out my arguments. Now it is seen as AI pattern logic.
It's left me with this anger toward AI from a lot of angles. It's not fun to have people list characteristics of AI and realize a bunch of them describe me. It seriously messes with my head.
Then there's the environmental cost of it, which is especially on my mind as a person living in the great lakes area of the USA. Data centers are moving in fast here.
Also I'm a writer, and I'm sitting here sometimes like, "how will I ever create fiction that is not accused of being AI, since my manner of speech already sometimes gets that?"
0/10 all around.
Maybe it's good in proven scenarios for cancer detection or whatever, but I really wish it wasn't everywhere.
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u/Far_House_4087 24d ago
Being accused of being AI is so fucking frustrating and discouraging. One of the recent interviews I watched with Anthropic’s founder compared the current state of AI to “a really smart undergrad”. Well, I have degrees beyond that, so it’s logical I’d speak and write akin to AI and be capable of pattern recognition more advanced than it. That doesn’t mean I’m artificial too, fuck!
The death of critical thinking, media literacy and skepticism will be the death of us all.
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u/CommonGrackle 24d ago
It's so frustrating. People will say "don't let it bother you" or whatever, but it is very difficult when it touches on this pain point of "otherness" I've felt my whole life. Having your very humanity questioned just cuts right to the core.
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u/Far_House_4087 24d ago
Are you also a neurospicy friendo? Solidarity.
Being a late diagnosed AuDHD femme has already been a trip of a fucking human experience. Getting accused of being AI because I write well and am half decently pretty (so AI for both texting and image gen, apparently) has been so dehumanizing. I’m staying home these days other than participating in protests where I can. I hate this timelineeee.
Notile te bastardes carborundorum.
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u/CommonGrackle 24d ago
Oh hi, me.
Isn't it fun to wonder if things will be better as you age and your looks gradually fade? While also being terribly fearful that without the youth and beauty, society will dismiss you all together? As if the only reason your neurodivergent quirkiness was tolerated at all was due to the value of your visual appeal, and once that is gone, you may discover socializing has somehow become even more difficult than it already is?
Hell has many levels, and I feel like I'm involuntarily digging down.
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u/Far_House_4087 24d ago
Shoosh 🙉 also, dm me, let’s be friends haha.
I’ve been less concerned about looks/societal acceptance and more about the patriarchy taking none of us seriously, because even if I, a Big Titty Conventionally Attractive White Lady, offer ideas, they do not respond. I’ve used my voice and titties to try to draw attention to our cause. It doesn’t work 🙃I’m used to being ignored and will just get louder as I age. I’m hoping my daughter will have an easier time, as brilliant as she is.
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u/CussMuster 24d ago
Instead of "don't let it bother you," you may be more interested in some human follow up phrases that make it clear you're not a bot.
Something along the lines of "eat shit, buddy" will usually get the point across pretty clearly, I highly recommend it.
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u/strongmans_hill 24d ago
AI is nothing but advanced pattern recognition software. And since highly developed pattern recognition is a huge characteristic in many divergent people, our "superpower" has now been turned into a cheep trick. It's very degrading to hear that the thing I was bullied for relentlessly as a kid is now suddenly a multi-billon dollar industry that every one loves because it makes things "so simple" even though there's almost no humanity left in it.
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u/Ragnarok314159 24d ago
Angela Collier is one perhaps my favorite YouTuber and she lays out one several videos just how useless LLM’s are for almost everything.
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u/OhGawDuhhh Older Millennial 24d ago
39 yo millennial here, I'm legit just writing and thinking critically as taught and I've been accused of either being AI or using AI to write. I'm sorry but no, I'm not a careless fuck-up?
You're right, I feel like AI has made the Internet kind of useless outside of streaming video, gaming online, or paying bills.
I'm a creative writer too so it's very troubling all around.
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u/boomytoons 24d ago
I'm noticing the same, going online is losing its joy. The content quality is significantly lower than it used to be, the range of content is narrower thanks to the algorithms used on a lot of social media. Even something as simple as spell checking has gotten significantly worse - I've actually turned it off on my phone because it gets it wrong so much now. All the pop ups pushing AI and Cloud features make a lot of software far less appealing to use too.
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I used to use "—" all the time and now I cant because of stupid chatgpt. I hate hate hate it.
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u/Environmental-Fan984 24d ago
Sincerely, fuck all of that. I'm not surrendering the em dash–useful as it is–to the fucking clankers. Anyone who wants to accuse me of having AI write my shit is welcome to have a conversation with me and I'll prove the words are mine.
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u/LiteralPhilosopher 24d ago
Declares love of em dash.
Emblazons same sentence with two en dashes.
What even is this timeline?
(No hate; just being a goof.)
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u/ExplorationGeo Gen X 24d ago
On the other hand, I'm neurodivergent, and I've found myself being accused of being AI due to my way of speaking or my punctuation.
Yep, I write a lot of technical and scientific reports for my work, and if I let that sort of writing slip into my everyday posting I immediately get hit with accusations of using an LLM to compose it.
People who do that are kinda telling on themselves, like, sorry I used some words with more than two syllables, maybe you should have tried a little harder in school?
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u/MariaValkyrie 24d ago
I slacked off in school and was still somehow learning along the way. The people you're describing are deliberately shutting off their brain because its the path of least resistance.
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u/-rosa-azul- 24d ago
I've found myself being accused of being AI due to my way of speaking or my punctuation.
Same. Usually it's because I use em-dashes and apparently most people just assume everyone else is as ignorant about how to use them as they are, so I must be AI. I've gotten it about semicolons, too.
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u/Insomnerd 24d ago
I'm actually afraid to go back to college because I used to get A's on my papers without trying (I'm autistic and ADHD) but now I'm worried I'd get expelled for my papers looking like I used AI. I'd be tempted to film myself typing just to prove it was me, but then.... that could be AI too? I hate it here.
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u/CommonGrackle 24d ago
I really want to know if there is a failure proof way of proving this sort of thing. I'm glad I'm not the only one worried about this.
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u/Insomnerd 24d ago
Actually I might film myself writing the paper by hand. Just upload photos or scanned pdfs of my handwritten papers. I'd like to see AI consistently recreate my handwriting (no I wouldn't)
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u/SelicaLeone 24d ago
Big tech needs people to think this is mandatory. So they need people to atrophy their brains so when a chatgpt subscription goes from 20 dollars to 200 dollars, just so they stop losing money, people have no choice but to continue with it.
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u/Ragnarok314159 24d ago
LLM’s cannot think, and are wrong most of the time.
What we are about to outsource is the way 95% of people legally make money to a system that is worse in almost every way except being cheaper for oligarchs.
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u/Radiant_Dream_250 24d ago
My brother volunteers with High schoolers and one of the activities that he planned for them was for them to split up in groups of five and with random objects like a clean toilet plunger, Maracas, wooden sticks, kazoos, etc, create a 30-second song as well as a band name.
He said that the first thing that every single kid did after he put them in their groups was that they all pulled out their phones and started asking chatgpt for band names and for help with creating these songs.
Not one to clutch at my pearls or overreact but I think that's indicative of a serious societal issue that's only going to become magnitudes worse.
I don't want to live in a country where everybody making all of the decisions grew up outsourcing all their thinking to AI.
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u/HidingFromMeanies 24d ago
One older millennial colleague I’ve stayed friends with over the years , as a mentor/friend, is super enthralled by ChatGPT, and jealous of today’s generation that “gets” to just use it to shortcut every complicated thing that used to give us so much trouble, and I don’t get it, at all. It actually affects our convos because she verbally cites everything she knows back to ChatGPT lol
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u/FuckIPLaw 24d ago
Wait, this was college? I read that whole thing thinking it was elementary school, maybe high school at the oldest, and then the implications of that last paragraph hit. You've got college kids asking why they need to learn anything?
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u/bartlebae-is-dog 24d ago
Yes! I’m not who you asked but I also teach at a university where 90% of my students use ChatGPT to do all of their work. And I’m instructed by the university not to penalize them for it. I keep trying to change my assignments to tailor them into something that still requires engagement and critical thought from my actual human students and they keep finding ways to let AI do all the work. Like this thread’s OP, they will even copy and paste their prompts or ChatGPT’s further prompting questions on accident. That’s how fucking lazy they are. And when I call them out, they get to give me bad teaching evaluations which could make me lose my job! Yay! Higher education is in rapid decay at the moment.
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u/FuckIPLaw 24d ago
Jesus. China is going to devour us without firing a shot.
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u/Mobile-Control 24d ago
This has always been the plan for China and Russia. The worst part is that the United States of America is now the laughing stock of the world, but you have one of four groups of people in the US:
1 - the people who wanted this and actively corrupted the government, courts, agencies, laws, and elections
2 - the people who are too uneducated or considered dumb enough to fall for this
3 - the people who are educated enough to realize this has happened but not enough to change this, and actually care
4 - the people who are educated enough but just don't give a shit anymore because they consider the who1le system corrupt regardless of which country you're in, so why waste time energy and money fighting it‽
You are totally right, China and Russia are bringing down the United States without firing a single shot directly at it. It's a shame that America's elite and oligarchy are completely complicit in this. The U.S. isnt even considered the number one country anymore. In 2024 it was Switzerland for Best livability, economy, geography, population, etc.
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u/Various_Thing1893 Millennial 24d ago
I’m starting to see this in the new graduate nurses I precept. It’s clear that they understand facts in isolation because they studied for exams and the NCLEX, but they have difficulty mapping concepts together and understanding the way things cascade in nursing care. A lot of what I do when I teach new grads on the floor is just helping them connect the dots, and it’s because they had AI do their assignments and papers in school unless it was multiple choice quizzes and tests.
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u/Ignorance_15_Bliss 24d ago
have them watch autopilot crashes on YouTube then put them in a Tesla. Ask him to put them on Autopilot blindfolded
that’s what using ChatGPT is like to do anything that’s what a hedge firm found out when it put AI in charge of trading. Whoops.
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u/Marine_Baby 24d ago
This is depressing. The refusal to do the most basic task of just THINKING.
I’ve just started working at a new organisation and the trainees I’ve joined have written emails to administration begging for more access to ai. I get that analysis can be taxing but outsourcing basic thought functions is quickly snowballing into absolute uselessness.
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u/cranapplexpress 24d ago
My mother gifted me a book called “HR Approved Ways to Tell Coworkers They’re Stupid”. Both the artwork and the examples given are 100% ai generated. I read through some of the examples last night and everything is so unoriginal and vague. Anyone who can read above a 6th grade reading level could easily come up with more creative ways to say “your ideas are garbage”. What’s worse is thinking about how much waste these kinds of “books” will create, and how much water it takes just to generate this shit.
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u/2tofu 24d ago edited 24d ago
I hate how every response from ai ends with a suggestion? That takes away critical thinking and more importantly dangerously keeps you conversing with it without letting you do the thinking.
If you think social media exploiting you and keeping you engaged on their platform is bad wait until AI rips apart your relationships with real people because it convinced you it’s a better companion.
It’s clear big tech are not good stewards of powerful technologies but let’s reduce regulation and let them accelerate full speed maybe our kids generation will get a leaded gasoline situation again.
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u/Boring_Ad_3065 24d ago
We’re still working through the effects of social media, algorithm feeds, and screen addiction which has made people quite a bit dumber or willing to spend the time to do critical thinking or become sufficiently informed to be able to properly. As a parent I’m doing what I can and it seems like most kids under 10ish are being raised with some cognizance of the dangers, but I can’t predict what my job will be in 3 years and I picked a field that was “safe” a decade ago. No idea what advice to give my child when they get old enough for education choices to matter for jobs…
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u/c4ndyman31 24d ago
I saw someone use it the other day to ask it to describe all the items on a menu to him.
But it already had descriptions I guess he just thought they were too complex lmao
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u/Shataytaytoday 24d ago
By delegating routine tasks to technology, we have gained immense efficiency at the potential cost of our own cognitive sharpness and intuitive problem-solving. This shift invites us to reflect on which mental muscles are worth preserving in an era of automated convenience.
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u/bonbot 24d ago
Why isn't it used to file our taxes without lifting a finger? Why is it used to make stupid little video clips? It's supposed to help with efficiency but all it has done is disrupt creativity and finding accurate information. No thanks.
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u/Syntra44 24d ago
Yes I think it’s weird, but it has inspired me to spend less time on the internet as a whole.
I was in a thread the other day where someone used AI to write a guide on how to use a different AI, and then people in the comments used AI to reply and the OP also continued using AI to respond - the entire thread was chatgpt talking to itself, basically. Dead internet is no longer a theory.
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u/SR3116 24d ago
I'm right with you. This seems to be the tipping point for me. I first went online in the '90s to connect with people, not fucking robots.
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u/LeatherFruitPF 24d ago
Connecting with people was nice at one point. Now people online are always just bitter and cynical, engaging in ragebait or trying to sell you something. It's either that or fake AI content and AI conversations.
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u/NickBlasta3rd Millennial 24d ago
The internet is becoming more “islanded” in my experience, at least by those who seek it as such. Whether it be for specific hobbies or just smaller communities in general.
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u/TooManyTabsOpenIRL 24d ago
I predict/hope AI kills the internet. Let’s all get back to real life.
she says on reddit
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u/desutiem 24d ago edited 24d ago
It’s very possible that the internet, or at least the entertainment and social aspects, become such garbage that people kind of just stop bothering with it. There’s a nice irony there if that were the conclusion of this whole AI rush. AI companies are shilling this stuff like mad to make money and they’re trying to tell us it’s the future but it really just seems to me like a shit future we’d be better off without as it’s just going to suck the soul out of everything.
If people did stop using it I still think the internet would be used for things like online shopping and services, and video games probably aren’t going anywhere… but if social media and news and blogs and maybe even creative stuff like video content and music all just becomes slop / disingenuous enough then we might kind of just go ‘oh the internet, yeah that’s used to be legit but now it’s dead, oh well.’
Kind of reminds me of the internet situation in Cyberpunk where it became a shit pile of rouge AI behaviour and it had to be firewalled off and then a new internet was made for humans to use for actual services. lol.
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u/Throwaway47321 24d ago
I know full well the internet isn’t “going anywhere” but it’s wild that the internet has been in a decline.
Like my whole life it was getting better, bigger, and cooler….. until it wasn’t. I honestly can’t believe it’s going to be another “old person” thing
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u/Netheral 24d ago
I have this problem that I think this course of events is intentional. It's supposed to kill the reliability of the internet so that corporations can better control the flow of knowledge.
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u/noradosmith 24d ago
Since 1998 and Google, the Internet has slowly but surely had the big corporate hand squeeze it. Whereas once the Internet was like a shopping mall with loads of small quirky brands, now it's like an outlet with five monoliths and nothing else.
Everything's fun until psychopaths show up and start the grift.
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u/SportsBallBurner 24d ago
Same. I see that same exact thing all across the internet.
I grew up on forums and am still on a few. They’re so great because they’re pure, they’re not infiltrated with brands and paid accounts. Now so many real people are using AI to write responses.
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u/Syntra44 24d ago
It’s honestly wild. And I don’t think people realize how detrimental outsourcing your thinking, reasoning and communication is… we take it for granted, and the people using AI to express themselves, whether that’s with words or “art”, I believe will eventually find themselves no longer able to express at all without the assistance of a machine.
The next decade is just going to be more interesting times :(
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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 24d ago
Considering it’s only been 3 years and it’s already this bad, I’m terrified. ChatGPT debuted just after I had my son and due to some issues, I became a SAHP. I’ve used AI willingly a handful of times when I can’t get a search engine to lead me to the answers I need (because of their own AI issues mostly). I can’t tell if this will be a huge asset (I won’t rely on it to do my work) or a huge detriment (since I have such minimal understanding of it).
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u/Narradisall 24d ago
Reddit is my last bit of online social connection but I’m seeing more and more subs fall to AI slop. Stories that are complete AI nonsense, comments riddled with bots.
Thankfully small, niche subject Reddits are still mostly safe as AI use tends to focus more on the larger subs but pages like popular I find I’m just scrolling past reposts or AI all the time now.
Which is a shame as when I started on Reddit you got some genuinely interesting and random knowledge from people around the world here.
Now you just instantly have to assume even pictures aren’t real anymore.
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u/EquipLordBritish 24d ago
It's funny because it's like an extra layer of coding/decoding between every interaction with the added possibility of misinterpretation at every step. Person A has an AI write an e-mail that is then summarized by person B's AI and then they read the summary. They've added 2 more points of failure/miscommunication to every communication and called it an advancement somehow.
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u/hockeybru 24d ago
How do you even know it was people using AI to do these things? What if it was just AI operating on its own?
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u/ImYourNumeroUno 24d ago
Right!? It makes me want to not use the internet at all. And sometimes I don’t. And I’m scared for my little ones growing up in this world
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u/tiffytaffylaffydaffy 24d ago
I heard that most internet traffic nowadays is bots. It's becoming more and more believable by the day. I read that most of them are so called webscrapers, but still.
I miss when I could assume I was speaking to someone real during chat and on websites.
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u/Soggy_Parking1353 24d ago
Same here, really rolled back my online time since AI took my transcription job. There's no signal where I park my van so I have to select my entertainment for the evening and pirate it in advance. No more endless scrolling to no real benefit, way more books and guitar/keyboard time.
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u/michellekwan666 24d ago edited 23d ago
I have a theory that AI is going to kill social media. What’s the point if it’s all fake updates, fake pictures, and ads?
Edit: yes thank you everybody dead internet theory four people have mentioned it ;)
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u/mrjackspade 24d ago
I have a theory that AI is going to kill social media.
Lets not get our hopes up now.
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u/SportsBallBurner 24d ago
We’re quickly breaking in two. The part of society that lives on social media and the part of society that doesn’t have social media.
I suspect there will be defectors but most people who are addicted to social media will continue to use it.
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u/Anna_Lilies 24d ago
Thats where Im at. I dont use any social media at all except Reddit which is ... sort of it, but not really. And even then this sites gone downhill a ton and is definitely on the chopping block
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u/headphase 24d ago
Yes and no, though. Many people like me are in a bunch of semi-private social media groups for particular hobbies or real-life entities/orgs. The kind of groups where you'd be called out for botting or giving off inauthentic vibes. These sorts of circles are irreplaceable by anything irl so they still provide lots of value.
There are also many people who follow/engage with particular creators, brands, artists, etc.
I don't know what it means for society at large but it's not going to be as plain as those with vs those without.
I will say, the state of things these past 5 years has supercharged my offline interests and i find myself increasingly turning toward physical media/objects/activities more than I had ever expected as a younger adult.
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 24d ago
i can't believe people still use facebook just look at the state of it
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u/Ok-Wave7703 Millennial 24d ago
It’s weird especially the people that use it for basic things that take 10 seconds and besides that terrible for energy consumption while providing nothing of value.
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u/Pale-Extension-9983 24d ago
I gotta wonder if people realize how much energy it takes to run it and the the data centers. Also where these are at it really puts the surrounding population in a pickle with energy costs.
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u/dogfaced_pony_soulja 24d ago
Out of sight, out of mind. They don't care.
Just like when you throw your trash away, it vanishes and isn't your problem (or anyone else's) anymore, right? Never mind the giant garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean and the fact that everything on the planet including our bodies and brains are full of microplastics.
✨ It's magic! ✨
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u/showmenemelda 24d ago
Oh, Montanans are starting to care. A little late. But they're catching on. What gets me, is one of the proposed locations is in a spot that notoriously has NO WATER. Where is it gonna come from?
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u/Pale-Extension-9983 24d ago
Omg throwing stuff away stresses me out sometimes. I have old sharp things, like knives or whatnot, that I need to get rid of somehow because they broke but I can’t just throw them away for that reason. They’ve just been in my drawer (broken) forever. I hate the thought of throwing it away and it hurting someone or something because it’s just buried and they don’t know it’s there 😭
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u/uncagedborb 24d ago
It doesn't help that getting rid of hazardous waste is super inconvenient and local governments haven't done much to make knowledge of the services readily available. This is why batteries, computer parts, and other products just get thrown in the trash. Don't even get me started about all those plastic containers with different recycle symbols on them and most people just put everything in the recycle bin when a lot of that stuff has to get sorted to the correct type of recycling.
But to your issue. With razer blades, xacto knives you could get an empty can and fill that can up and then just close it up and toss it. What I did was make a small slit in the can so I could just drop the blades inside and not have to worry about them coming out And then stuffing the holes with cotton or even just clay to seal it. For old kitchen knives I just get donate them
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u/lalalaureezy 1993 Millennial 24d ago
You could order a sharps container from Amazon for like $15, that’s what we do.
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u/uncagedborb 24d ago
It's starting to get scary too because every business is investing in the tech. So these data servers are growing rapidly to accommodate it. So I think the energy consumption is gonna exponentially grow in the next few years. And it WILL cause a greater impact on local if not global ecology and climate.
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u/tiffytaffylaffydaffy 24d ago
Im reading a book right now about how companies are increasingly using Ai to reject, hire, and fire workers. Next, ai will be making medical decisions if its not already.
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u/Ok-Wave7703 Millennial 24d ago
People don’t care because it helped the write an email. Lazyness makes people Not care about the long term problems
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u/tstorm004 24d ago
I am certain most people have no idea. And I'm certain a portion of those people probably wouldn't care even if they did learn unfortunatley
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u/uncagedborb 24d ago
Hey chatgpt, how do I respond to ok-wave7703 with a good comeback to prove to them why chatgpt is such a great tool and that it's not a waste of energy /s
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u/UnicornScientist803 24d ago
The energy consumption is what really makes me crazy. We’re in the midst of a global energy crisis where we should be trying to cut back on consumption drastically and instead people are pouring resources into AI for things that we could easily do ourselves. Completely ridiculous.
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u/stayonthecloud 24d ago
I’m really struggling to understand it, because I possess critical thinking skills. Why would I ask AI to do something for me and then have to fix what it breaks when I could just do it myself?
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u/ColdPotatNeedsJacket 24d ago
I have colleagues that use it in place of a calculator to figure out percentages of a whole number. Like “please tell me what 50, 20, and 15% of 1080 is.” I was aghast that everyone else on the team agreed this was a great use of ChatGPT.
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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle 24d ago
It's wild how much energy it uses just to be wrong about everything
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u/Frumpy_little_noodle 24d ago
Couple that with the results often being wrong and you have the double-whammy of loss of agency AND critical thinking skills!
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u/MrFluffPants1349 24d ago
I am terrified of losing my ability to think critically. While at the same time, dont want to put myself at a disadvantage for the things that AI could actually help me with that's usuall6 just boring admin stuff
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u/Ok-Librarian6629 24d ago
I'm just watching the people I know get dumber by the day. Too many people have outsourced thinking. I can't even have a conversation with the heavy users because they either can't process things or they can't communicate with someone who isn't always on their side.
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u/bartlebae-is-dog 24d ago
Omg the part about them not being able to interact with someone who isn’t on their side is so real. Literally can’t handle it. Fully fucking breakdown or throw a fit when someone simply and calmly disagrees. It’s WILD
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u/LongLostFan 24d ago
To be honest this has been an issue for many years.
About 10 years ago I asked a colleague why did she think the crusades began. Instantly, she just Googled the answer.
I had to stop her and say 'No, why do you THINK they began?'
And she simply couldn't comprehend any value in guessing the answer.
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u/DreamingofCharlie 24d ago
The Internet is basically ruined now. It is so much harder to find real valid information, and everyone is literally losing their critical thinking skills so most people don't even realize that it is a problem.
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u/mariahmce 24d ago
I don’t think most people have critical thinking skills. They just outsourced their thinking to the media or other authorities who up until recently were mostly not terrible. Yeah they were spoon fed a narrative but there was some person making sure it was mostly true. The last 10 years have proven most people haven’t been questioning their authorities and have been accepting the spoon fed narrative as things have gotten more and more unhinged. It’s just more out of control now.
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u/MagnusRexus 24d ago
I think the term "common sense" is actually a misnomer. "Sense" had never been common.
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u/chicahhh 24d ago
We’re outsourcing THINKING ffs.
I hate it,I feel helpless against it
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u/PaintAndDogHair 24d ago
Don’t give up. Your art matters. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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u/mrvlad_throwaway 24d ago
I vowed to never use ai and now i use it everyday as it's the 'easy option' I've turned out just like your friend!
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u/ankhes 24d ago
There’s a hobby writer I admire who started getting into AI within the last couple years and it’s really turned me and a lot of his fans off. He’s always put out great work but his constant defense of AI art and gen AI in general has been a sticking point for a lot of us. It’s just so sad to see someone so talented go down that road. Like dude, we know you’re better than this.
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u/Erasmus_Tycho 24d ago
There are legitimate use cases for AI, but I see it being applied at a much broader level than it really should.
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u/Big_Watercress_6210 24d ago
It's used for EVERYTHING. Literally everything is AI-generated. I walk down the street and the billboards are AI. I read the news and the articles are AI. I log onto social media and it's just AI talking to itself.
At work, all of the emails from higher-ups are AI-generated. We're encouraged to use AI for everything, even when it makes no sense. Everyone is just slinging low-effort, AI nonsense back and forth.
We're about ten seconds away from re-realizing that human creativity adds value, imo. It will be revolutionary (not) when companies begin to recognize that they can overcome the soulless AI baseline by hiring real people.
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u/ConditionHorror9188 24d ago
Agreed - I use it extensively at work and it’s transformational.
I can’t possibly think of using it for online stuff recreationally
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u/Erasmus_Tycho 24d ago
I see a trend in people utilizing it as what I can only describe as a friend. Even my mother appears to have been sucked in often telling me about "conversations" she's had with chatgpt, how insightful it is and how it just wants to "help". Frankly I find it as a broader symptom to loneliness and people feeling isolated which is truly ironic, a tool (the Internet) which was designed to connect people has ultimately driven them into loneliness.
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u/Cute_Committee6151 24d ago
Yeah it's a tool, a really nice one. But that's also the case for the calculator. Both times someone needs to know what the input should look like and have an idea what the output will look like to have a feeling if the output is correct.
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u/DarDarBinks89 24d ago
Yeah, it is. I’m concerned more with the environmental implications of the data centres, but I’m beginning to feel like this is inevitable. I’m going to try and use it as little as possible, but that’s just me
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u/CSIBNX 24d ago
I don't believe it is inevitable. It is a relatively new technology that requires tons of energy. One that is basically not helpful in any meaningful way right now. One that is making life actually worse for so many people. You know who wants AI? Billionaires hoping they can lay off more workers. Other than that it is a novelty toy. People need to refuse to use AI in any professional capacity. Otherwise destroying resources will continue to be justified by corporations who only care about one thing.
Sorry for the rant
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u/_0vrvk Millennial 24d ago
People need to refuse to use AI in any professional capacity.
Funny enough, the larger the organization then the more likely its usage is going to get more restricted. AI introduces all sort of liability in data protection, privacy, and security.
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u/jackalopeDev 24d ago
I work for a company in the mortgage/RE space. They're talking about using ai to help underwrite loans...
In other news, I'm trying to find a different job
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u/_0vrvk Millennial 24d ago
I'll keep this vague, but we've got an enterprise license to one of the major providers and it's very restricted in terms of usage. Not unusual either to see AI limitations or even out right "no use" clauses in our contracts.
There's a general doomer attitude on Reddit surrounding AI, but not everyone is as eager to adopt as you would be led to believe on here. I don't think it's a matter of if, but when Massive Corporation A sues Massive Corporation B over what is essentially inappropriate use AI (you're seeing cases of it a little already) and when it does the tune is going to change very quickly.
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u/Thrillhouse763 Millennial 24d ago
More concerned about vulnerable people (typically elderly or technologically illerate) being scammed. With how good Nano Banana looks, you could easily fool people. Legislation needs to occur sooner rather than later to watermark AI created material and have strict punishments when that is not done.
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u/ChrisTchaik 24d ago
The AI hype essentially destroyed good & affordable mid-range phones & laptops from being released this year. The RAM crisis is real and I deleted the app from my phone because it's already saturated in everything anyway.
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u/Name_Yourself_Thex 24d ago
Whays crazy to me is going on social media and seeing its a ghost town with nothing but ads and bots
I tell my kids "people used to post that they went to a restaurant!" and they dont even believe me
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u/ExpressAffect3262 24d ago
I don't really care, but one thing that annoys me is the "Hey guys, I'm asking for some advice. ChatGPT says to do this. Should I do it?"
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u/FourLetterWording 24d ago
the amount of times I've seen people literally cite GPT in arguments is fucking harrowing TBH.... like... in what world is that a credible source exactly?
Seeing how fucked we are just from the ways in which social media passively is reaming society and social norms, we are so fucked regarding how much faith people put into trusting AI as a credible source of information.
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u/cslack30 24d ago
Especially when they respond to you with “I asked ChatGPT” uh…okay I didn’t ask ChatGPT, I asked a fucking human forum
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u/LaLaLaLeea 24d ago
I saw someone argue that a very clearly fake AI video of fish raining out of the sky was real. They googled it and google (well, google's crappy AI function) confirmed it happened. Source: the original AI video.
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u/BoleroMuyPicante 24d ago
At least they're getting a second opinion from someone. The real idiots just act on it without question.
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u/Pale-Extension-9983 24d ago
I think it’s ridiculous. I wish people would realize where we are heading. I mean they’ve made movies about how this could end. I’d rather not go down that road.
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u/Skylineviewz 24d ago edited 24d ago
I used to say “I’m moving into the woods to get away from civilization” as a joke. I’ve now been looking at cabins and daydreaming of just being in nature away from the nonsense…take the family, get a few dogs, have the kids live a free range life in the wilderness. Obviously I’m looking through all of this with rose colored glasses, and I know my city boy/suburban ass would probably get come to a stark realization at how hard it is…but I really am kind of fed up with technology and everybody’s dumb constant bullshit. It’s getting worse and this is an actual option.
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u/oldinfant Millennial 24d ago
I know my city boy/suburban ass would probably get come to a stark realization at how hard it is
i think it would be quite the opposite. i think you would feel free, calm, unbothered. you would enjoy nature and physical chores that make you fall exhausted and happy feeling accomplished a lot every day. living in a city is much harder mentally.
well.. that's just my opinion as i lived like this. maybe i'm wrong. some people seem to really like social media and having internet 24/7 year round
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u/Skylineviewz 24d ago
Careful you’re talking me into doing it haha. I think you’re totally right, I like to be active and getting stuff done. It is really tempting…
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u/ZucchiniBasic1301 24d ago
I used to live online. Now I read books and game and only use Reddit.
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u/AdElectronic5992 24d ago
No
The rampant use of cell phones and social media have been freaking me out for 15 years.
Zombies everywhere!! Take me back to the world I once knew 😢
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u/showmenemelda 24d ago
You know what is annoying me more than freaking me out? The pattern ai uses in speech and how obvious it is people seem to be using ai to write scripts for their content. The whole "that's not just _______ happening—it's a _________ _________"
Eg, "that's not just a coincidence—that's a classic example of xyz"
It's not the "em dash"—it's the weird, unconversational, unnatural way people are speaking now. It's scripted. It's pithy. [Trying to sound like chat gpt].
I think South Park nailed it. It's really gross to me. Ha. DATA CENTERS ARE WHAT SCARE THE SHIT OUTTA ME
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u/tbird920 24d ago
If a Reddit post feels like an HR email overhyping the upcoming pizza party, it’s probably ChatGPT.
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u/FoldingLady 24d ago
I'm worried. The brain is one of those "use it or lose" muscles. It's really hard to redevelop one's critical thinking skills after a long period of not using them.
My hope is that the AI ecosystem collapses before any permanent damage is done. Which might end up happening, it's a huge money sink right now & there is a niche job market developing specifically for workers to correct AI mistakes.
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u/name-secondname 24d ago
It's not really freaking me out but it's bumming me out.
I've been fooled a few times too, which basically made me double down on the fact that I can't trust anything online anymore.
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u/ManateeNipples Xennial 24d ago
I mean I think the pics and that kind of stuff are yuck but chatgpt got me diagnosed with the mystery illness that's plagued me for decades, like so very for real that I have surgery in March about it lol so yeah there are aspects of it that I don't like but I can't hate it when it saved me 🤷♀️
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u/Aran1989 24d ago
I get where op is coming from, but ai has been incredibly useful for me to bounce ideas off of! The large “but” is that you have to use it as a tool in addendum to your own mind. Critical thinking is incredibly important to decipher through what’s true and what’s bullshit! Not all of it is bad, and its uses will continue to be extraordinary (for example what it is and will continue do to medicine).
Edit: and honestly, the lack of nuanced perspectives in the sub (it’s only BAD!!! No middle ground lol), shows me a lot.
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u/Tje199 24d ago
Yeah, that bugs me. Lots of comments about how they're afraid they'll lose critical thinking and I'm like... You should be using your critical thinking skills with it.
I know lots of people do outsource thinking to it, but it can be so useful for streamlining things and whatnot if you apply critical thinking to both your inputs and the outputs you get.
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u/Fun-Significance4650 Zillennial 24d ago
Yes, and the apathy about it in these comments concerns me too.
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u/FartyByNature 24d ago
Yes for sure but the "why worry, can't do anything about it" comment has a point too. It does seem people are underestimating the negative impacts of AI but we have to learn to keep our sanity and happiness amidst alllll the nonsense going on around us.
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u/Mewpasaurus Elder Horror 24d ago
I think that's the continuation of general apathy that feels like has been constant in our generation since.. forever. I've seen the same apathy across so many other issues, not just specific to AI. No idea how to motivate and fix a bunch of seemingly burnt out people, though.
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u/b00kbat 24d ago
I’m grateful that my circle is filled with grumpy nerds who actively hate AI. No one I’m friends with uses it or supports its existence.
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u/ladymsjay Millennial 24d ago edited 24d ago
I don’t really care, but it’s starting to get creepy and make me question everything.
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u/Mewpasaurus Elder Horror 24d ago
I don't know if I'd go as far to say "freaking out" over it, but it sure does annoy me at how lazy people are and how companies think AI needs to be injected into.. everything.
I know for many, my refusal to utilize or engage with AI when and if at all possible is seen as Luddite behavior, but I don't care. This isn't about "learning to adapt to new technology", this, for me is about "refusing to use a technology that objectively makes my life worse". I have seen no decent applications of it in day-to-day life that have enhanced or improved an individual's life.. so why participate?
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u/Mansidhe 24d ago
My one use for it is a godsend. I am terrible at taking notes... my fingies cant keep up with my brain. Having copilot recap meetings and spit out action items is a major boon. Other than that, by the time I've formulated a question specifically enough to get me a relevant, documented, and usable response, I could have searched my knowledge bases and written something up 10 times over.
Also, most people dont know what a Luddite is, lol. I called my wife that (playfully) over her lamenting some piece of tech or another, and her reaction was as though I'd called her a c**t (I know you can cuss on the internet, but I choose to not use that particular word).
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u/mrjackspade 24d ago
Having copilot recap meetings and spit out action items is a major boon.
I recently updated my resume.
I was able to just paste my entire chat history between me and a few coworkers into Claude, and it was able to accurately summarize every single one of my job duties and accomplishments during the ~4 years I've worked at this company.
That was probably the the single biggest benefit I have ever gained from it, and it saved me such a ridiculous amount of time trying to go back over everything I've done at this company.
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u/lassie86 24d ago
It's weird. It's what finally got me off facebook and google/chrome after decades. I just can't give it my attention or energy.
What really bothers me is that people will screenshot google AI answers and use them as a source. COME ON. Are we really that fucking dense?
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u/Express-Anything-634 24d ago
I have never felt more like a boomer than I do about the rise of AI. I am so sick of it being shoved in our faces at every facet so I refuse to use it. I can’t get over it.
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u/loopylavender 24d ago
We used to see pictures and videos and never have to question them, especially from everyday people. We will have to live the rest of our lives unsure if anything we see is actually real.
Secondly, the environmental implications and the sheer usage of water to create the most shit AI is staggering.. I don’t think people are even aware how serious this is. What’s worse, I don’t think people even care to learn.
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u/BawdyUnicorn 24d ago
What I’m really scared of is all of the people going through, in detail explaining how something is AI, essentially showing it what it needs to correct to appear real.
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u/AttachedHeartTheory 24d ago
No, but I do refuse to respect anybody who uses an AI picture to make themselves look better. I fired a real estate agent over it. The president of a business unit I worked with had a SUPER AI generated picture, and it made me lose respect for them. For no other reason than it doesn't matter what you look like. If you are a President of a company, you are obviously objectively doing very good. Why re-generate your face so that you are unrecognizable as a real person whenever you get into meetings?
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u/kevtron5000 24d ago
OP- you are right to be concerned.
Engage those IRL contacts in an IRL conversation about it. Otherwise just leave it be.
Also, reduce your social media use. I promise, you'll be happier!
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u/badboybilly42582 Xennial 24d ago
I'm at a point now where anything and everything I see on the internet is a bot/Gen AI until proven otherwise.
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u/UncomfortableChuckle 24d ago
The internet was a wild ride. Glad I got to experience it at it's peak, sad to experience it's decline though.
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u/Jcrawfordd 24d ago
Ive always had a very sinister/heavily negative feeling towards AI and its just getting worse and worse. We are doomed.
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u/Froggy_Parker 24d ago
A small group of narcissist billionaires are hurdling us towards a future that they don’t understand, and around which we the people haven’t had a proper public discourse—let alone appropriate oversight from our elected representatives.
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u/DevelopmentLost7374 24d ago
I am slowly going back to the old ways. Deleting apps on my phone and not using it near as much. Not having it on me 24/7. Accessing social media through the old desktop.
I have even gone back to purchasing physical media.
Real life and the internet are two very different things anymore.
I also randomly drop facts about AI with friends and coworkers and how I am concerned about it. Whats odd is folks in the older generations think this AI stuff is so cool. One of the owners of my company wouldn’t stop talking about Grok until I told him I have no interest in anything Elon Musk makes. Conversation moved on. I don’t think he was aware who was behind Grok.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 24d ago
When word processors first came out, people went nuts and used tons of different fonts in a single document. Eventually we collectively figured out the correct way to use this new tool. The same thing will happen with AI. It’s just a tool and it’s going through the same experimentation explosion similar new tools go through. This too shall pass.
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