Love it.
Steve Jobs once called the personal computer a bicycle for the mind; ChatGPT is a wheelchair for the mind. There is no shame in using a wheelchair if you need one, but if you don’t need one and use one anyway, you will come to need it.
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Steve Jobs also thought eating fruit could cure cancer...
I'd say chatgpt is more like a self-driving tesla stuck in huge traffic. you don't have any control, it can break down easily, you're moving slower than a bike, all the while thinking that people who chose the bike to avoid the traffic are losers.
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I delivered pizza during COVID and most people I worked with couldn't follow simple directions to an address or read a road map. If a destination didn't show up on their cellphone's navigation then they were immediately and hopelessly lost.
If you don't use and exercise your brain then it atrophies and dies. AI is going turn a lot of people into conscious vegetables.
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This is such a weird take.
Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?
Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?
Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?
All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.
This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.
I wish this sub didn’t allow low-effort meme posts because it’s such a brain rot circle-jerk.
There are plenty of articles that are written out that you can read. AI takes immense energy to operate, for one. It uses a lot of water. Go down and read what journalists have written, and you'll find that there are solid points against AI development that name-calling will not do justice.
Damn you cry alot.
The loss of skill requirements within trades and crafts is likely a major factor in the cascades of ineptitude we experience in our society. The barriers to entry also directly benefitted the quality of those spaces, and naturally flagged the incompetent (if you are incompetent and lack spell check, your mis-spellings served as a demonstration that you are not a skilled writer. Same for driving, musical recognition, engineering as well).
We've seen a clear decline in the general quality of all products, and I can't help but feel that the automation of skill is directly connected to that decline. This tweet seems to mirror that sentiment in its mockery. You don't have to think anymore about pretty much any of the process, you just get an output you can ship immediately. So it goes without saying that you can be without any skill and still have a footprint within spaces you have no merit to be in.
The decline in general quality of products is because corporate wants you to buy the same thing over and over again. Quality doesn’t matter.
Well said. I don't remember the exact headline, but I skimmed an article that said recent graduates are having trouble getting jobs because many entry-level tasks are being automated. This will be a huge problem in a few years because entry-level jobs are the training for upper level jobs. LLMs are not cut out for work that takes careful analysis and communication, and they are useless for tasks where accuracy matters. How do managers propose that we fill those jobs if they won't train entry-level employees?
What kind of evidence are you seeing that there is a loss in skill requirements and lowered barriers to entry?
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Played around with music stuff out of curiosity. Will not be using it in the future, unless it can be used to make editing easier (splicing sections, decreasing volume in specific sections, altering instruments, etc), but that is already easier than ever with current technology. AI lacks soul and it just sounds too… mathematical, if that makes sense. Glad I never had the desire to use it for anything else.
ETA: grammar
Watch Wall-e to remind society how lazy and dependent on AI can end up.
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Can it maybe just give her an orgasm for me? I'm way to lazy to do it myself.
/it's sarcasm, you dumb fuck
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They will monetize those chatbots.
And I want to see how many will pull out their wallet when it happens.
And I worry it will be almost every hardcore user, for the fear of being left out and performing worse than anyone else.
The trap is set, it has sprung, and now we wait will the owner comes for the feast.
They will monetize those chatbots.
They already did? They have premium plans, pro plans, free plans, etc.
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