AI seems like a cult

[Anonymous]

Several friends are into AI and using it to write. They don't understand AI makes up references and is based on people's existing ideas and writing.

The way some talk about AI sounds cult-like. Meanwhile, they are contributing to something that is designed to make money from corporations that want to replace their workers with AI.

Anyone else feel this way?

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I know somebody who just chats at it all day like it's a person.

Look up "dead internet theory." It's the idea that most online interaction is by and for bots - not in the sentient sense, but in the sense of AI text is designed to appeal to search engines, which then promote it. It's circular.

[Anonymous]

No but it does make up things.

[Anonymous]

AI is not creative, it's created.

[Anonymous]

It's great when your boss says, "write up your job description" or other such work. You can tweak and edit rather than starting from scratch

[Anonymous]

I think the people who claim it's a fad probably don't want to learn how to use it to make them more efficient and thus pretend it's a useless tool that has no applicability for anyone anywhere.

Anybody who has used these models in anything more than a cursory capacity understands why it's such a big deal and that these minor complaints that early models hallucinate or you don't like their tone are really missing the point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who claim it's a fad probably don't want to learn how to use it to make them more efficient and thus pretend it's a useless tool that has no applicability for anyone anywhere.

Anybody who has used these models in anything more than a cursory capacity understands why it's such a big deal and that these minor complaints that early models hallucinate or you don't like their tone are really missing the point

This is what a cult member sounds like.

I've tried using it in my job and it's totally useless. I have coworkers who use it and it is making their work product worse than useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI is not creative, it's created.

I agree. Not a fan either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who claim it's a fad probably don't want to learn how to use it to make them more efficient and thus pretend it's a useless tool that has no applicability for anyone anywhere.

Anybody who has used these models in anything more than a cursory capacity understands why it's such a big deal and that these minor complaints that early models hallucinate or you don't like their tone are really missing the point

Nobody is saying it’s a fad. (I wish it was a fad.) We’re saying it’s BAD, in every sense of the word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who claim it's a fad probably don't want to learn how to use it to make them more efficient and thus pretend it's a useless tool that has no applicability for anyone anywhere.

Anybody who has used these models in anything more than a cursory capacity understands why it's such a big deal and that these minor complaints that early models hallucinate or you don't like their tone are really missing the point

This is what a cult member sounds like.

I've tried using it in my job and it's totally useless. I have coworkers who use it and it is making their work product worse than useless.

Really? You've tried every LLM in existence and determined they don't provide value to YOUR job, and thus they have no use for anyone?

[Anonymous]

Ultimately AI will make us all dumber, more misinformed, mistrustful and lazier.


And that’s the REAL intent of AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the people who claim it's a fad probably don't want to learn how to use it to make them more efficient and thus pretend it's a useless tool that has no applicability for anyone anywhere.

Anybody who has used these models in anything more than a cursory capacity understands why it's such a big deal and that these minor complaints that early models hallucinate or you don't like their tone are really missing the point

This is what a cult member sounds like.

I've tried using it in my job and it's totally useless. I have coworkers who use it and it is making their work product worse than useless.

NP. I don think it’s totally useless, but I’ve had coworkers who have come to rely on it to do every little thing for them and the results are embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

I think AI is a tool, and most people are using it incorrectly.

For many people, it's easier to edit something that stare at a blank page. So it's a tool to put words on paper, and then you edit to fit the circumstance.

Boring routine stuff - write an email, draft a thank you note. Take these notes and create an agenda or summary - AND THEN YOU HAVE TO EDIT IT.

THat's the key.

I had a research prject dumped on me and I asked AI. It spewed a bunch of stuff that seemed interesting, but completly unsourced. I told it to tell me the same thing but include sources. Then I went to the sources and built my own research report, building on the AI but pulling other things from the sources that were more relevant to our particulars.

We had to provide options to a customer for wording for something. AI was great for that in the sense that it provided options, some of which were nonsense, but gave us a head start instead of starting from blank white space.

Also - always remember gargage in, garbage out. Sometimes I ask things repeatedly until i get to the right prompt of the thing I want.

Now, anyone using it to make funny pictures is just wasting resources (I worry a lot about the energy needs of AI).