Fuck AI

the dumb ones stay dumb. at least read the $100 book

Me, cooking, fucked up my Tofu and my wife always uses ChatGPT for everything: hey ChatGPT, how can I fix the tofu that curdled into the smallest flakes possible? ChatGPT: vinegar and heat.

The one time I used ChatGPT for more than "I have this tax law and want my grandma to understand it, say the same using easy words" content I ruined a whole pot of tofu and nutmilk.

If you don’t know what you want it to say, it is wrong.

It's absolutely terrifying. I am a returning student to uni in my thirties and the only person not using any AI. They literally depend on it.

I just had a classmate the other day turn to me, frustrated, saying "You ever ask chat(gpt) a question and it gives you a whole, like, paragraph you then have to read? like, why can't it simplify it?"

Did I mention I am an electrical/computer engineering double major? So yeah, even reading is too much for these kids. Future workforce is fucking cooked.

No shit. LLMs are the anti-thesis of education. The basis of which is hands on practice. Using a glorified autocomplete-my-assignments should be barred from education without exception.

This is the tip of the iceberg. The world is facing a critical collapse of profession. We're nearing a point that was foretold ins sci-fi where humans no longer understand how the machine works.Just that they can use it and it works.

Except sci-fi was too optimistic. Science fiction has actual AGI. We have glorified autocomplete. A non-intelligence.

in India, it's common to pay someone to take exams. congratulations Doctor

what they're doing to push back against the tech.

Classify it as a cheating tool.

Of course. If you stop thinking about complicated things, what do you except to happen after some time?

This is the peak of civilization, get ready for regress.

It seems like a huge pervasive part of modern culture is that success and fortune equal never having to get your hands dirty, never worry about the details, and never learning to figure shit out because you can just pay somebody else to do it (or ask the "AI" to).

Obviously some amount of specialization and delegation is good. That's how you get a society.

But to just exist passively is something else. It's bad for us, and I don't mean that as a moral judgment. Nobody needs certain skills to justify their existence. I mean it in the clinical sense, like that you can be sedentary with more than just your physical body.

So much ai slop in the professional world too

maybe you shouldnt have discredited students, by using AI accusing them of cheating with AI on essays.

I've heard much of the same from my friends who teach middle and high schoolers: most alarmingly that they can put information up on the board, ask a question about it, and the students don't even connect that the answer is already in front of their eyes.

And sadly, a very common question they get is: "If AI can do this for me, why do I need to learn it in the first place?"

The worst part is that, in the short-term, the only recourse people have is suing social media and LLM companies, who are awash in cash and happy to settle, or throw their weight behind age verification, which in its various forms poses a security risk. Parents, clearly, are parking their kids in front of screens and unwilling to parent, so that's not something you can depend upon.

I'm just glad I never procreated, but this problem is going to affect us all when these kids try to enter the work force and can't actually do anything.

The bubble needs to pop yesterday

But their ability to make Terminator-Robocop porn in under an hour is unmatched

It's not really surprising, and there are already quite a few studies on cognitive decline related to AI usage out there. I guess the wide scale effects will only be visible in a few decades, but I suspect it will look a lot like Idiocracy.

The kids who were 12 when the pandemic happened are now 18 and will be having their own kids soon.

A huge part is the tools they're using to "detect" AI use. My sister in law fought with Grammarly, which she was required to pay for and use by the school, to prove her paper wasn't written by AI.

She spent twenty hours trying to "de-ai" a paper that wasn't written by AI. The only things that worked were using bad grammar and poor sentence structure. The class was pass/fail, and probably for that reason.