It seemed like it happened really quickly, too

even on reddit with all the techbros any posting of chat-gpt output, even when it would be funny and is relevant to the conversation just gets searing hate from everyone

anywhere someone even gets a whiff of it, no matter how shitty and chuddy the comments, is just nonstop dunking

excluding places where AI is actually discussed. but those places seem to be shitty and toxic now. like go to the various AI music subreddits it's just full of shitty people. nobody is having fun

they probably shouldn't have gone gung-ho on the "we're going to replace all your jobs and push you into ghettos to meticulously bomb with AI integrated drones until we genocide all but techbro billionaires and their retainers".

It's also a pandora's box of burning up even more fossil fuels to fuel the deluge of cheap crap it creates. It's harrowing to think for like one neat ai thing, there's 500 million shitty ones and hectares of the amazon burnt down.

I want the bubble to burst, but it seems like companies can get away with being fraudulent forever now.

Tesla was a fake ass company built on hype for so long. There was several years it was worth more than all the other automakers combined, despite being incredibly unprofitable. Yet Elon was able to keep boosting one scam after another until it was a real(but significantly smaller than promised) company. He was going to build a $35k electric car years ago, going to have a fully automated factory, going to have 1 million robotaxis on the road in 2018, going to launch an insurance company, and many more promises. Each time the company was desperate to raise cash, he gave a presentation with big promises, and all the dipshit venture capital firms lapped it up.

AI is a perfect grift, too. It's really easy to trick people into thinking something is intelligent, you just need to make it produce human like output from real human input that you steal.

I love how desperate the industry is to prove use-value for its useless thing. There was an interview recently with the company that makes the mattresses for the Olympic athletes. They spent a good 10 minutes talking about their advanced AI bed which revolutionises sleep. It will take your height, weight, and body shape and then tell you how to flip your mattress segments so that it's firmer or softer. This innovation is so staggering that I almost forgot my grandparents had a bed from the 1970s-80s that did the same thing with a remote control. It worked better and had more settings, much in the way that my debit card is infinitely better than any crypto shit.

I refuse to take any AI goober seriously. They're absolute scumfuckers who only exist to reinvent the wheel as a scam.

I think it's funny that the imperial core latched onto AI because a machine that produces ordered garbage is seen as more profitable than paying workers a fair livable wage.

No better representation of the dysfunction of the American tech industry than people worshipping generative text that is slowly killing our planet.

Honestly in the past few months when I've started use it more as a search engine it's progressively getting worse and worse.

Also Capitalism trying to shoehorn AI into every product possible. Why does my work software need an AI built in? It won't help us employees or the company, what would help is to fuck off with the 'do more with less' and pay us more. But no, someone somewhere got paid to add a worthless implementation of AI to our software.

when the ai craze was just starting it was just a few websites with mostly free access that would do cool stuff. now it's a paywalled product regurgitated to hell in dozens of different websites, all of which are getting progressively worse because they have ran out of "cheap" data and now they are training on their own output.

not to mention they have ruined all forms of social media with unimaginable levels of spam generation and cursed images, their massive carbon footprint, the jobs that the c suites axed that couldn't be done with these products so now the burden is shifted to other workers etc etc. capital is getting dumber and dumber every day and it won't stop until it burries us all.

I remember when it was called Deep Dream and it just turned photos into versions where everything is made out of dogs

Ive played with ChatGPT dozens of times. I’ve actually used AI maybe a handful of times. Usually for trying to gussie up a bid for some plumbing work. It’s a mixed bag there. Sometimes I get some pretty good results, sometimes it sounds like exactly what it is- a halfway literate middle aged dumbass using AI to church up a bid. I’ve used the logo generator when playing around with ideas for work/business cards. That’s hit or miss also but in the cases I’m mostly using it in I’m not sure if it’s the tool or the idiot using the tool.

Frankly, im not artistic. I’m not a creative type so my uses for something like AI will probably always be based on things I interact with or put my hands on (does that make sense?) like looking up relevant specs in a technical manual for something I am currently servicing in the field, or looking up a part that’s on a boiler that was out of date when my grandpa was a toddler.

I guess AI really won’t be any different for me, than using a regular search engine already is. In my life as it is currently, I don’t have a use for AI.

I hate to say it, that just because I can’t find a use for it that it’s swill and should be 86’d, but I can’t find a use for it so it’s shit and should be put in the fkn garbage can.

If it makes you feel better I would hate it even if it weren’t used directly by corpos because it still steals from real artists and coders and devalues their labour in the public’s perception.

A friend of mine works marketing, so exactly the type of person who you'd think would love AI. While they do love aspects of it, they say that pretty much half their job now is just sifting through AI generated slop. And you can always tell, ChatGPT especially has a certain je ne sais quoi about the way it writes.

The worst part about it as far as capitalism fucking it up and using it in the worst way possible is that regarding art and content: they don't want a masterpiece, they just want something that's good enough. So even if a real artist or writer could do a much better job, they're going to pick whatever costs them the least and makes them the most.

When it started to gain traction I thought it would be cool to use for research (not as a replacement, but as a supplement). I wanted to hook it up to my pdf library, annotations and notes and use it to usefully search through for connections, etc.. I tried a few ways of doing this, and it just sucks. It's so bad that Ctrl+f in Zotero to search though pdfs for keywords is far better.

Or even as a deeper search mechanism for finding new papers. But it fucking sucks at this too. Just hallucinations upon hallucinations. Every library search engine which hasn't even been updated since 2003 does it better.

That aside, no one has been able to explain away the environmental costs for the world's shittiest blender either. We will destroy the world so a student can plagiarize easier, corporations can lay off more people, healthcare can get shittier, and so some fuck can trick it into making big booba anime girls after the thousandth query. What a destitute failure.

Like bitcoin, it's stupid, environmentally costly and is a (shit) solution looking for a problem. There is nothing about it which is "intelligent". Silicon Valley is a blight on the world.

Idk I still like a lot of weird Al’s older music and even some of his newish stuff gives me a laugh, like that one foil song