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please don’t tell me we are at this stage
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more horrifying example of projection in my life 💀
He can’t go through his day without AI because he’s made himself dependent on it instead of doing anything for himself, and he genuinely thinks that everyone else is the same way.
People have surrendered their critical thinking skills. Truth is, AI disappearing overnight really would be disastrous, because a huge portion of humanity is utterly addicted to it and incompetent without it.
They’re incompetent with it too.
I’m perfectly okay with that outcome.
Absolutely, let them burn
I am completely okay with everyone dumb enough to outsource their critical thinking to AI having their lifestyle upended when the AI bubble pops
The AI bubble might pop, but just as the dotcom bubble didn’t mean the end of the internet it won’t mean the end of AI. LLMs (or whatever might supersede them) are here to stay.
I agree, but it will mean an end to highly subsidized LLM subscriptions and free access to any cloud LLM worth actually using for anything, which will make it much harder for the average person to rely on LLMs as much as this person.
I think most people were totally incompetent before AI. It’s just that now they have a tool that creates bullshit for them and an excuse when problems arise.
Maybe. It may be recent enough that people could lapse back to some level of thinking for themselves.
Let’s explore something much more dependent now and see if it holds up. What if smartphones disappeared? We still have cellular phones, the Nokia makes a comeback, but the use of smartphones, iPads, tablets, that whole concept is gone. You have to get on a computer to do any of the internet type interactions.
Would people lose their minds?
You have to get on a computer to do any of the internet type interactions.
Oh no! Anyway…
and he genuinely thinks that everyone else is the same way.
He asked ChatGPT if everyone else is dependent on AI, and it said yes.
The worst is hes on the “right side of history” there. Pretty much every boss in every company in every industry seems to go “lets go AI yeah bwoi”.
Get through a work day without it? Yes. BECAUSE THEN I’D ACTUALLY HAVE A FUCKING JOB.
…sorry for screaming.
I’m not really all that anti-AI but that tweet is the stupidest argument ever. And kind of pathetic.
Wild fucking take
I guess nobody did any work a few years back when AI wasn’t being shoved down our throats. Also imagine being a carpenter or an electrician and being asked if you can get through your entire workday without AI. That guy is such an idiot is makes my head hurt.
Your second point was where my mind immediately went. I have never used AI at work and have no way to use AI at work even if I wanted to, because I don’t use a computer for work. Even if I was a massive AI supporter, I’d still see exactly zero difference at work.
Seriously - the AI bubble is very recent. Pretending like no one can possibly remember how they functioned before AI was being used everywhere is asinine.
He’s telling on himself. He doesn’t actually know how to do anything and he never did. He’s terrified of losing a.i. because there’s nothing for him to go back to
Seriously. What were these people doing like two years ago and what are they doing now that is different? Everyone in my office that uses a lo of AI is just doing it because they are lazy and don’t care that their work product is shit because it was shit anyway.
I’ve been using AI as a data querying machine, and that has become a game changer for me.
I can ask it to do an aggregation query in our few thousands datasets within our company, and the AI can produce some series of 100 line SQL queries within seconds. I, and my team, can go far deeper and faster in our data analysis than before.
So yeah, if AI disappeared tomorrow I would be deeply impacted.
Your job wouldn’t be missed if AI disappeared tomorrow if you’re that reliant on it.
Nothing you do matters. I hope you understand that.
Tell that to the ones who are paying me to do my job.
You just told us why they don’t need to pay you much longer…
Because we’re doing things faster than competition?
You’re not doing anything though. You admitted that in your post. If AI went away tomorrow you’d be screwed. You aren’t doing a job, the AI is.
You’re completely useless. And it won’t be long until your bosses realize that.
My job is mainly producing the thousands of datasets. Producing one-off SQL queries for our customers is merely a side quest (which is now aided by AI). I can spend more time on my main quest.
Most jobs don’t matter tbh. Does any society actually need advertisers/marketing people, corporate executives (or frankly about 70% of middle management jobs), corporate consultants, or private equity? These jobs could vanish overnight and no one in the general population would give a shit. Lots of those jobs are a net negative to society, people might even be better off.
AI just exacerbates the existing trend of Bullshit Jobs by allowing people to produce orders of magnitude more worthless garbage (which is a massive boon to the worthless garbage industy, e.g. advertising, fraud, and propaganda).
I don’t think anyone is arguing against some of the very real applicable uses of llms in fields like data or even medicine.
Still, I would give those up so that tech bros stop hurting the working class.
Well, here you can’t mention you’re using AI for your job without anyone pointing out that the job cannot possibly be of real value if AI can help you with it.
Tbf, the whole industry is heavily weighted towards the LLMs that steal data, produce lies, and ruin lives. Mostly, to convince shareholders to keep inflating the bubble that is primed to fuck up at least one nation’s entire economy.
I work as a software engineer and I don’t use any of those things… so yea… if I can do it, most people, the overwhelming majority of people can do it.
I envy you. The company i work at fully embraced ai …
My boss said it out loud yesterday: you know guys, i don’t really depend on you anymore.
He must have wet dreams about developing software for a customer, without having to pay some stupid developers for it.
My boss said it out loud yesterday: you know guys, i don’t really depend on you anymore.
As a poor soul who’s trying to refactor a fully vibe-coded project (in prod BTW) into something half-decent: hahahahahahahah
Sounds like he and AI deserve each other, and he should probably just start a new company with just him and AI to do all the work without those inefficient employees. In fact, he should ask AI if it’s a good idea. If there’s anything he’s unsure about, AI could reassure him to go for it.
Sis fr, I’m a freelancer music producer and I’ve seen my demand fall into the ground, a horrific free fall to the darkest of the bottomless gaps… All that while they just use and praise music that sounds all like if it were just chops from the same giant shitty song.
I’m forced to for work but I could happily go back if it all disappeared.
In fact I wish it would.
But if it disappeared, how will all those middle managements write all those hundreds of TPS reports that nobody reads?
Or send automated posts of gibberish and feel productive?!?!?
And the ones who can’t do it are actually just stupid and inept folks that barely can read and they still stutter.
I use Claude Code daily at work and yes, I am VERY willing to give it up if this LLM and generative bubble completely blew up tomorrow. I’d be more than happy to see it disappear.
I am VERY willing to give it up if this LLM and generative bubble completely blew up tomorrow
The best part is that when the bubble blows we’ll still be left with dozens of LLMs that can run locally on modest hardware with results not far behind the “frontier” bullshit, and nobody will be shoving AI down our throats every waking moment.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
But how will I solve crosswords now
I’m fine with an offline ai
Nuance? On Lemmy?
Oh you found the mentally ill Lemmy users that prove why they got kicked off reddit
I’ve only actually used AI like 10 times I don’t think it was actually particularly helpful in even half of those. It mostly just gave me wrong information it made up and I then had to go back and find the correct answers myself.
I, too, try it every once in a while just to see if I’m missing anyþing. So far, I haven’t gotten any results which change my opinion.
I saw someone else (on Lemmy) saying þey þink anti-AI people are stuck wiþ perceptions from Ancient History, like opinions formed 6 mos ago, and really, AI is good. It’s not accurate; most of us probably encounter some form of AI every day just because it’s being shoved down our þroats, by search engines if noþing else. Þe code is always bad, or wrong, or boþ, and þe search results are lies often enough þat you can’t trust it.
Skill issue
Yeah, the skill of the AI
If we’re going to discuss AI, it might as well be relevant and not from one personal anecdote from someone who actively hates the technology.
We can all agree that’s not a fair take
It’s plenty relevant. The times I mentioned were actively trying to use it, putting in effort to rephrase prompts and whatnot until I hit the cap on the conversation and it still couldn’t give me what I needed, but even looking at the crap google spits out when I search it’s always half wrong made up slop. How anyone can trust this shit is beyond me.
You only “trust” it if you’re turning your brain off.
Anyone who wants to keep their grades or job is reading everything that comes out and applying their human taste, and making serious edits and rewrites
So then what the fuck is the point?
I suppose they just can’t imagine that there are people who don’t use it.
They must think that everyone is addicted to it as they are.
Analogy is a little weak, because so much of modern AI has been shoehorned in after obliterating the more traditional routes for internet information lookups.
If the traditional search engines have had their results irrepairably ruined by SEO and advertising? If you’re locked out of Wikipedia, because it’s been blacklisted for Wokeness? If StackExchange and Reddit have gone to shit because of all the spam? If you can’t use Discord from your company/school intranet? If your coworkers are all new hires, because your boss fired all the old-heads for demanding real living wages, and now you’re surrounded by a bunch of college grads with no experience in the company systems?
Then yeah, I guess AI is what you’re left with.
Who’s really blocking Wikipedia though? Is that real?
If my work environment was like that I’d be spending my workdays applying to other jobs as soon as I realized they live in the fictional trump cult version of “reality” meanwhile retaining evidence of their workplace political malfeasance to report if possible.
Who’s really blocking Wikipedia though? Is that real?
YMMV. I’ve been on intranets that keep a whitelist and block everything else. And since Wikipedia wasn’t whitelisted, it was blocked by default.
If my work environment was like that I’d be spending my workdays applying to other jobs as soon as I realized they live in the fictional trump cult version of “reality” meanwhile retaining evidence of their workplace political malfeasance to report if possible.
If you’re a consultant, you’re going to be working inside other people’s networks. And those networks are going to have their own rules.
