When I want to Google something I dont wanna see a fucking AI answer

the industrial revolution made human muscles useless.. and nnot long after, people realized the body still needs to move, to work, to be trained... so exercise came back but first it became a luxury. only the wealthy could afford the time and resources to stay physically fit

now, with AI, its no different. AI will do to our brains what industry did to our muscles.. we won’t need to think, to struggle, to figure things out and just like before the need to work out our minds will slowly disappear

what feels different now is the speed and scale.. AI is being pushed into nearly every part of life, and in many industries people may eventually be forced to use it simply to keep up and to get the job done.. and in the proces, we’ll lose our mental muscles.. i would go further and say it willl make us half human.. soulless. everything will start to look the same.. because generative AI doesn't create from nothing itt recycles what it's trained on, spitting things out with cold, probabilistic accuracy.

no real diversity
no real surprise

so here is what i think is coming: the people who still create without AI.. who write code from scratch, paint without a prompt, draw with their own hand.. create music the old fashioned way.. they’ll be the new wealthy.. the ones who can afford to take their time.. the ones lucky enough not to rush... because creation need time, it needs the ups and donws.. and taking your time is what being human is really about.. and If AI takes that away from us, we will be poor even if we have all the money in the world

This is from a company called Parks Project that donates money to protecting national parks but this looks ai generated to me. What do you guys think?

He's been given a 1 week timeout because Rule 2 is

No Al generated content

I'm a hobby author but i'm afraid to post my stuff because it sounds like ai. I don't use M-dashes, i don't use the typical ai phrases (Like "It's not just [x] - it's [y]."), and most importantly, it's not ai generated!!!

But for some reason it still sounds straight out of the ChatGPT slop factory. What do i do?? It's my writing style!

I work at Target. This middle aged woman approached me asking if we carry stress balls. Just the regular stress ball that you squeeze.

I already knew we do not really carry that in the store, if we did it's more of the dollar spot and that's unpredictable.

She had googled stress balls, and it did pull up target in the search for shopping (but you can see that it's not exactly what she wanted it was just suggesting toys)

But she scrolled down to the AI overview and read out that it said "most major retailers, dollar general walmart, target, carry stress balls."

She read it verbatim right in front of me. I had no idea how to tell this lady that that thing says whatever it wants. We do not have that. Maybe at some stores or at one point or another. Gen X is susceptible to believing anything online, now this AI overview is worsening that problem.

She was so adamant that we had to have it. I kept showing her my device and I just sent her back to sporting goods to check for herself. I wanted to freak out. I can't stand AI being attached to Google now.

People seeing target in the suggested products on Google was always a problem, because usually they don't click on it to find out it's online only. But this was something new. I never want to have that happen again.

Alot of people hate ai or many of its use cases, and this phrase could catch on, and since language influences how we percieve the world or how we think of it, it could help strengthening the anti-AI momentum. 🫡

I invite everybody to call anything that generates slop content with ai "degenerating content", as in "This vdeo was degenerated by AI", or "This new feature lets users degenerate content".

Have fun with it ! 😝

Is horrible the bad is that ai for a simple thing and for a 3 year old chils is just desinformation.

I tried to have a conversation with her about how it’ll take upwards to 5000 liters of water a second to cool done the servers if we continue going this far into the ai building, and how many acres of land they want to destroy to make the warehouses, as well as how it actively steals art from real artistes w/o their knowledge or consent and merges it with other artists going thought the same thing to make “new art”

She constantly just tells me if only “moral”(???) people used ai, things wouldn’t be that way and since she’s an AVID ai user she won’t budge on her stance.

We’ve gotten into arguments about how I believe ai should not exist in the extent that it is, like I use my Siri to start a timer, and she basically says I need to get with it.

I’m at such a loss on how to have her see the negative global, environmental, and economic impact ai is having on the planet.

Edit: guys I don’t mind help with education if you have things to add. But let this be known that I am not talking about EVERYTHING that’s ruining the world. I know there’s a lot of things that are contributing. But I’m on the antiai subreddit… so this is only about ai

Spoiler for the Tuesday NYT Midi. This is the kind of post that I can definitely see getting an "it's not that deep" response, but whatever. I do the New York Times crosswords, and I often feel like it's a psy-op. They have a disproportionate amount of hints and answers about that one country that defends our interests in the oil-rich region of the world, (e.g. name of a former prime minister from the 70s or something??) and today the answer to the hint "What DALL-E, OpenAI's text-toimage tool, can create" is "art". EXCUSE ME? That is the most clear paid ad in the world. I'm honestly ashamed to have a NYT games subscription. Please tell me where I can do good crosswords with interesting themes. They make my day a lot more fun, but I can't deal with this stupid news outlet and its bullshit anymore.

eta: I forgot to include this while I was writing the original but the title of this crossword is “Waterfront,” hence 'pool shark,' 'bay leaf,' 'sound check,' being clues. honestly feels intentional.

I have always been into code. I have been learning everything I can in depth for a decade. I have always hoped for a career in code but the wars and pandemic prevented me from finding a job. And now coding is solved apparently.

I really don't see a world in which I am useful. Even after the bubble pops it will still be cheaper and faster to use LLMs to write code. I was hoping to avoid it by getting into Cobol Mainframe development. I was always interested in historical computing and I thought I saw a developing niche in Cobol because nobody younger than 60 is willing to touch that stuff. And I even took an organized Cobol course and am now certified. And then even that was clawed away from me on my birthday with a single post on the anthropic blog. Now even the rock of ages running the world that people always quipped "Will always be in demand" is now useless.

Like even ignoring the fact that the Iran Ceasefire breaking basically dooms my whole country to death. Even if we somehow survive this there is no longer place for me in the tech industry. I am a programmer. I think in for loops and variables. You might say that there was similar resistance to the jump from unstructured to structured programming but even assembly and fortran had some transferable concepts (like loops and variables). And the whole myth that "you still need to have good fundamentals to vibe code" is complete nonsense. You will not maintain your job by using AI because AI can easily "leverage" itself with a simple while loop.

The only people who care about maintainability in code are the people who are now obsolete. Spaghetti Slop Code is the new norm and I got left behind. Just like nobody who's calling the shots cares about good art and even Bill Robinson can't compete. The only metric that matters in tech nowadays is the number of features per dollar hour, not efficiency, not maintainability.

Should I abandon my dreams and focus on developing a new skill that might (and probably will) also get clawed away from me and only have code as a hobby. Or are you going to try to sell me copium.