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Yes. It's getting weird. Had a coworker ask me a question if something was possible. I said yes. He said: no, ai said it wasn't. I didn't understand why he asked me if he knew the answer already lol. They just accept ai as truth, can't take those people seriously.

I know a guy who does that. He used to be smart, but it feels like those antivax who refer to other people instead of using their brain. When he begins to talk about AI results, I zone out, and I'm starting to disregard everything he says, AI or not.

I separate those people.

If they said, "Chatgpt said... " And they are completely confident that it's correct, I disregard them. This includes the AI cucks who send literal screenshots from AI as some sort of "proof".

If they said, "The AI slop I got was... " Then they're more likely to critically think about it. They know this is a third voice, rather than the definite answer.

It definitely colors my opinion knowing someone routinely uses GenAI and LLM's, especially if it's for little things like writing an email, because I write my own emails and a unique voice is important to me. I feel like writing something in my own voice is a way of showing respect for other people and their time.

Basically it makes me think a person is either lazy or ignorant.

Yes. It's getting to be more of a problem where it's easier not to think. I don't see this trend ending well.

I know whenever I'm at work and someone uses AI to try to answer a question where they are not qualified to validate an AI response, I don't trust anything that person says.

Yes. A friend's brother developed the habit to look up stuff during conversation when something is unclear. He uses voice for that, so you see him whisper to his phone all the time when you or others are speaking. Weirded me out.

I know only one person who's completely fallen under the spell, but yes.

Though to be fair, I already disregarded most of what he said since he's a reactionary conservative who spends his days pouring right-wing podcasts into his ears at 1.5x. But at least on topics other than politics, he used to be fairly knowledgeable and trustworthy.

But since he's started telling me how impressed he is by how smart Claude is (since it tells him what he wants to hear), I've started disregarding everything he says, regardless of topic.

I've gotten my llm using friends to preface it with "the lying liar that lies says" which has in turn led to a sharp upturn in "but also the top link says" and generally helps keep me alert.

Yes i do; My sister and her husband work in tech and they have become that kind of people that ask chat GTP for everything. I think what gets me the most is not that they ask AI but that they do so on the most obvious inconsequential things. I also hate when they use it as a research tool or to get a quick superficial answer. I often tell them I don't care what AI has to say.

For some reason when people share AI music; it really grinds my gears. I am not a musician but a long time music fan and for some reason any type of AI generated music is an existential insult to me, aside from the fact that it all sucks.

I don't know anyone like you describe (at least, not nearly this level of bad).

But I want to offer a more positive contra-example. Since AI has become ubiquitous, I have become a lot more forgiving of mediocrity in human made stuff, whether that's a piece of art or other media, or simply someone trying to articulate themselves, but poorly. I'm way more likely to work harder to try to understand the point that someone is making, and to see the thing I'm engaging with as an earnest attempt to communicate with another person.

In a weird way, I think that AI has made me a better person because of this. It's reminded me of what things truly have value

I don't think I know anyone who does that.

I also disregard any screenshots of Google ai overview, it's been proven to be easily manipulated.

That it has been labeled AI was one of the biggest tricks they ever could pull Off. People literally think there is intelligence.

People like to Take what the First google result jacked Out. With "AI" it got even worse. "Nobody" is questioning shit anymore.

I disregard all of these people where I can. I can't disregard my CEO, and he does it more than anyone I have encountered.

I think those people are in need of a good hard rl slap across the face

yes.

there's someone at work that doesn't read emails or reports, has AI generate the answers for them and just regurgitates the slop unfiltered.

I interact with them until they start posting slop, then I just ignore that they posted it. when I say ignore, I literally pretend that it doesn't even exist.

if they can pretend that slop has value, I can pretend that it doesn't exist.

yes i ignore their input

Just start asking your 5-year-old for counter arguments, as they are likely to be more valid.

It bugs me, yes. The anthromorphic "ask AI" makes it even worse.

Personally, it's people who get answers from some so-called "book" or "university" or "expert" that grind my gears. Like think for yourself maybe?

Just using slop generators at all makes you a moron in my books. Unfortunately I am something of a moron myself when I use free services in an anonymous browser tab to find out something not clear from documentation.

Yes. Husbands brother is in education, literal librarian/research background and has a chatgpt subscription and won't stfu about it. Can't stand it. Use your brain, fuck AI.

Yes. I know a few folk who've fallen way down the rabbit hole and believe anything the lying machines spit out. When they would get on their soapbox about LLMs or write very obviously ai-generated messages, I made it clear to them that I wanted to hear their thoughts or nothing at all.

For the most part, I got the latter. My mom actually backed down a bit and uses chatgpt at least more judiciously now, especially after I showed her how it makes shit up about stuff within her knowledge base and explained how it was doing that for everything.

Well, I would trust a 9th century BCE doctor from anywhere in the world to diagnose me for internal bleeding before I trust anything someone who relies on genAI says to me. Could literally be just their name and I would immediately presume it's fake and they asked genAI for a name.

Yes, I disregard idiots but that was true before AI too.

If I knew anyone IRL, damn straight I would.

I've stop reading one source of tech news and at least one fitness youtuber who uses AI. I can do no less for IRL interactions.

I generally take everything they say with a giant grain of salt, but that was somewhat true even before 2022. Most of the AI-reliant people I know were never that great at evaluating sources of information. It’s just that the problem is far more pronounced now.

Put simply, YES.