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Fuck AI

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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Scum Cuntman, surprised when people do not like slop being forced right in their faces.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago

The headline is a lie. The CEOs are not confused; they know why. And in the article, they don't even pretend they're confused, because that's too ridiculous to claim even in a media blurb.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They are mad at everyone at work for not using the AI tools more. I was told that we aren't seeing productivity gains because people aren't using the tools right but I think it's more that the tools don't live up to expectations so people don't care to use them. They are expecting all this work to be done faster and it's causing everyone to work more. Any productivity gains is from us working all hours of the day

[–] yourmom@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

I'm in a similar boat, my company isn't pushing it too hard but they are definitely on the AI train and I truly haven't found a great use for it yet. Everything it puts out still has to be double checked so it seems like if I'm doing the work anyways I might as well just do it right the first time.

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 1 points 13 hours ago

This makes it obivous that tech ceos are just so out of touch with reality

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CEOs are generally speaking… calculating. They just want this in the news. They want people talking. Who is interested in an IPO nobody is talking about? Nobody gave a damn about Oracle after they collapsed until their CEO started doing ridiculous shit just to be in headlines, like sparring with Red Hat, as an example.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Calculating and immoral

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I remember a time when tech ceos actually used the internet. It seems that now they just get their MBAs, a job, and then spend all their free time avoiding technology and listening to other people tell them what they want to heat

[–] root@aussie.zone 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Perhaps if they didn't buy up all the RAM, HDDs , GPUs and making PC building / home computing so expensive, maybe we might consider liking it a bit.

Don't forget that the Internet is currently ruined by AI-slop that is continuously flooding once interesting human-created content. This is probably my biggest gripe of AI. I've significantly reduced my screen-time, basically stopped coding in my free-time because of this sloppy mess that we call Internet right now...

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago

Nah I'd still hate AI because it's trash

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

There was absolutely no reason for AI companies to go batshit crazy. This was pure supply shock. Each level assumed 10x exponential growth. A sane 2x or 4x would have been manageable for all suppliers

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 2 points 18 hours ago

I don't hate it but I do understand why some people do. Actually I do hate it too. My bank is using it for Customer Circus...and its that a circus.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Because like them it’s so incredibly lame

They shoved AI everywhere without any concern over what the users want. Now the users are resentful, while the AI bros go Shocked Pikachu Face.

I can’t help but wonder if the public reaction would’ve been more positive if we hadn’t been inundated by AI intrusions in seemingly every facet of technology. In a way, I can appreciate that the hatred is home-grown - the biggest issues I see revolve around the ethical issues stemming from AI’s lack of regulation, and ethical issues don’t tend to make the public react. The fact that people already found their own reasons to dislike AI means we’re all on the same page. If the public were fans, I’d just be dismissed as a bleeding-heart for giving a shit about right and wrong.

But here we are, standing together in hatred. So beautiful.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

AI, and now the internet in general, is a net negative for humanity. It's been hijacked by the rich, who manipulate headlines and social media using, in part, artificially generated pictures. People are believing that garbage. Saw a few people believe videos of cats shooting machine guns. Seriously.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They keep telling us how cool and fun it is. Why won't we believe them? They know what's best for us, and they're going to make us take it whether we want it or not.

Not me, I've never touched the shit.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't hate the AI that much. It's useful in some specific circumstances, but mostly is just a fun novelty toy.

I hate the CEOs forcing it down our throats.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

AI is being used to generate videos of minorities breaking laws and rioting. That is its purpose

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ok, but you should hate it though. AI, as implemented by capitalism, is downright detrimental in so so so many ways. Even if we set aside the huge environmental costs, energy and water price hikes in communities near data centers, loss of jobs due to AI, theft of IP, and sloppification of the internet, it is also doing things like convincing my friend with bipolar that they should attempt suicide.

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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Artificial intelligence is a primary keystone for a science fiction civilization to move its labor from the people to machines, but they obviously ignored the other keystones such as equal rights, shared wealth and further opportunities to all humans. The wealthy want all the wealth and opportunities to themselves; cut the people out of the equation to gain more market and never have to pay the lower class citizens ever again. They clearly designated themselves no longer human. We the people think for ourselves and we the humans should easily abandon them. No longer serve them no matter how much they offer, no longer entertain them no how much they give, no more trust no matter how much they plead. They ignored us for so long and destroyed our world, why should we hear their pleas?

[–] pnelego@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Key difference, what is called AI in science fiction isn’t the same as the AI we see today. These companies just adopted the term AI from science fiction as a marketing strategy. Not because it’s actually representative.

Some people are now having to clarify AGI, rather than just AI, because the term has got so diluted.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I wonder why people don't want cloud based AI running their microwave

[–] sullen_silverback@lemmy.org 30 points 1 day ago

Really illustrative of how out-of-touch people become when they reach a certain level of personal wealth.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Because we are not absolute morons incapable of independent thought like they are

[–] LLMhater1312@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

Completely out of touch!

[–] Azrael@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (14 children)

You know what I HATE?

Look at the FUCKING SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF THE ARTICLE!

It's written by FUCKING AI!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the world is ready for me to start my blogging again. Complete stream of consciousness garbage no AI could replicate 🤣🤣🤣

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 256 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (28 children)

“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang in a January interview about the “battle of [AI] narratives.”

Isn't admitting you are confused and hurt by why customers don't like a product tantamount to admitting complete incompetence as a CEO?

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You know what's extremely hurtful??

Get something that does not work being forced down your throat.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Get something that does not work being forced down your throat.

Honestly, it's not just that.

Digital services have this terrible trend to get downgraded because some designer decides something like

Well, having 10 buttons is too much, we should have only 4 buttons. We should also make the UI 5x more clumsy (although they'd call it 'beginner-friendly')

Ai is very similar, except it's an exec throwing tantrums to slap AI onto something, which wastes company resources and makes the product either more or a lot more worse than before.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago

We also hate the CEOs

[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 195 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"We are working on a technology that will accelerate climate change while hopefully making most of the population unemployed in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life, if even that! What? Why are you all booing?

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

More like "We are throwing cartloads of money at technology at the expense of actually meaningful improvements. Oh, and shedding jobs as well. Gotta make the lines go up. Oh, and we don't care at all for the environment, and this technology just so happens to be terrible af towards it. Oh, and don't expect getting a new ram stick in the next 2 years at the very least"

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 day ago (5 children)

AI

  • Added zero actual value to humanity
  • Can do any task about 70% correctly about 70% of the time
  • Drove up electricity demands through the roof
  • Gave humanity the option to make childporn from their armchair
  • Is generating such hardware shortages that computer hardware prices have doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and more to come!
  • Increased misinformation by factors of thousands, if not more
  • Broke CAPTCHAs for good, thanks for that
  • Caused wild random growth of super datacenters that pollute like crazy and take away all the groundwater everywhere
  • Steals all data from everyone everywhere with impunity
  • Highly confident in giving the wrong answer
  • Literally made ma y people lose their mind into AI psychosis
  • Do I still need to continue?

AI tech bro's look at that list and ask: why do people not like AI?

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[–] CanadianMade@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't know man Tech CEOs keep talking about their latest shit will replace people's job jee makes me wonder why?

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[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The integration of AI into regular, deterministic software bothers me a lot. As a developer, I want my IDE to be consistent so I can feel comfortable that autocompletion and other functions do what I expect. But recently, and at an accelerating rate, I find the IDE to make inconsistent autocompletions - often suggesting a lot more code, which often contains errors and non-existant references.

I could use AI every now and then for work, but I wish it only helped when I'm explicit about it. Currently, it kills workflow and sucks out energy both from me and the grid.

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