I studied Machine Learning in college and was excited by the developments being made in Neural Networks.

I followed the tech closely the entire time, even today.

But once we got a good working general use LLM then marketing teams went fucking hog wild promising things that the tech wasn't capable of, just because they knew they could trick idiots into thinking they had created "Artificial Intelligence" -_-

The tech is cool and revolutionary, but Machine Learning is still only capable of doing the things we were using it for before the LLMs got slapped onto them, and the use cases for LLMs are very limited too.

It's overhyped and an inaccurate name since it isn't intelligent in any way. A waste of water and electricity for work that can't meaningfully replace any human work.

I've always hated generative AI and everything it stands for.

I like non-generative AI. Early artificial life sims (e.g cellular automata) are super interesting, and machine learning and xAI are great for science.

Just not that big a fan of the infinite slop machine helping the rich get richer at the cost of degrading our knowledge base and arts

When the money and energy sucking slop that currently is being billed as "AI" is what tech bros are using to rob us now. It is garbage. It will remain garbage. It will suck as much money as possible into the tech bros companies and waste energy to the Nth degree while doing it. It is a the biggest con / scam of this century.

I disliked it from the moment they called a glorified language database and collator "AI."

I like "AI" like I like plastic. Technologically it's amazing! It allows us to do many things that would have been impossible or very difficult before!It has many different uses! Average people use it terribly! Business people use it for awful things! It is poisoning our reality in a pervasive manner that will persist long after I am dead!

So yes and when it became overly marketable.

I also really enjoyed when "AI" models made distinctly uncanny images rather than "realistic" soulless images. I have an image of a weird-looking baby and a chicken-man screaming at each other and it is distinctly hyper-perceptual. Good times! (update: I found it)

I liked it when all it did was help you remember what options to use with tar to unzip a tarball.

I've not loved nor hated AI. I've been both impressed and irritated by what it can do.

But, one thing has been pissing me off lately. My wife and I often share funny videos throughout the day, and over the past few weeks, about 1/3 of them have been real video, 1/3 of them have been obviously AI (like talking babies), and the other third are deceptive AI. (Something that looks impressive yet believable, until you see the SORA watermark, or find an inconsistency in the background)

There was a time where I could watch a video of a dog doing tricks and just think "that's adorable!" but now I have to check everything I watch for watermarks, missing teeth, and scrambled text in the background. I have to verify it's authenticity before I can decide how I feel about it.

When I first saw the game "AI dungeon" it blew my mind. It actually used gpt-2.

Anyway the game later had to get worse to manage cost of servers and seeing them struggle to make it work was just sad to watch.

I remember there being youtube essays going over how this is one of the reasons free AI services open to public are just unmaintainable but then chatgpt/gpt-3 came out and that whole topic was closed to look at this shiny new thing instead.

I really liked Deep Dream. As a fan of Lovecraftian horror, it really tickled a niche for me. When chatGPT first hit, I was down with the general vibe, but then gestures around at everything.

I’m a musician, and I like to write. I hate it. My husband uses it to help him code (I think; I have zero functional knowledge of his industry) and says it can be used in that capacity in certain ways.

The number of times I’ve heard peers say “I put this into chat gpt and it said…” makes me want to throw up. We think disinformation is bad now? We have no idea what’s coming.

I was amused by the idea initially. I am in favor of seeing ACTUAL AI someday for no other reason than it would be proof that humans are gods who can create sapience without genetics. I even generated my avatar with AI.

But seeing how it wasn't much better than chatbots before it, how it does not know anything and uses no intelligence to give you factual responses with 100% accuracy to even be good for information, and how it is taking jobs away from creatives in ways not even fiction thought would happen has made me hate what is currently being called "AI."