captain_solanum

I use LLMs for the following, you can decide for yourself if they are major enough:

• Generating example solutions to maths and physics problems I encounter in my coursework, so I can learn how to solve similar problems in the future instead of getting stuck. The generated solutions, if they come up with the right answer, are almost always correct and if I wonder about something I simply ask.
• Writing really quick solutions to random problems I have in python or bash scripts, like "convert this csv file to this random format my personal finance application uses for import".
• Helping me when coding, in a general way I think genuinely increases my productivity while I really understand what I push to main. I don't send anything I could not have written on my own (yes, I see the limitations in my judgement here).
• Asking things where multiple duckduckgo searches might be needed. E.g. "Whats the history of EU+US sanctions on Iran, when and why were they imposed/tightened and how did that correlate with Iranian GDP per capita?"

What does this cost me? I don't pay any money for the tech, but LLM providers learn the following about me:

• What I study (not very personal to me)
• Generally what kinds of problems I want to solve with code (I try to keep my requests pretty general; not very personal)
• The code I write and work on (already open source so I don't care)
• Random searches (I'm still thinking about the impact of this tbh, I think I feel the things I ask to search for are general enough that I don't care)

There's also an impact on energy and water use. These are quite serious overall. Based on what I've read, I think that my marginal impact on these are quite small in comparison to other marginal impacts on the climate and water use in other countries I have. Of course there are around a trillion other negative impacts of LLMs, I just once again don't know how my marginal usage with no payment involved lead to a sufficient increase in their severity to outweigh their usefulness to me.

The pizza place is real:

https://www.burattino.com/

The slogan "Crunch baby crunch" is also correct, found on their canadian site. Also the text seems far too consistent especially when the cardboard is bent to be AI generated, even if a reference image was given. And if you were generating an AI video, why would you use this unknown pizza place with three locations and a complex logo and not a chain which the model has seen millions of boxes of?

If this was an AI generated video, I would expect the hand to rip through the cardboard without there being any damage to it before. But at the start of the video you can see a hole punched through to make it possible to get a grip and tear. There's also a piece of pepperoni stuck which is a detail I'd expect AI to miss but makes sense if scissors were stuck down and rotated to enlargen the hole. This pepperoni is then preserved even after it is covered and flies away a second later. I dont have access to video generators to check but I think this might be possible although difficult with current SOTA. All of this leads me to conclude the video is real.

The voiceover certainly sounds AI generated, but theres really no good way to tell anymore especially from such a short clip.

OP is mocking you

What??? They saw a video online and reposted it to a shitposting community on lemmy. The point of the video is that it's a parody of the stupid life hacks you don't like. If they wanted to mock people there are much better ways to do so.

Edit: Damn I was wooshed