S/O Opting out of AI

[Anonymous]

Lots of AI threads!

Is anyone else intentionally opting out/avoiding using AI where possible? I wasn’t a big user but I’m totally quitting it. Reducing internet use in general too.

[Anonymous]

I use ai but not AI. Generally, I use it to correct my grammar and suggestions for clarity. Otherwise, AI can't help me in my work since it doesn't involve simple problems like "why is this linked list broken."

[Anonymous]

Yes. I loathe it. I need to figure out either how to disable it in Google search by default or switch to another search engine.

[Anonymous]

In a time when we should all be better stewards of the environment it’s unconscionable to me that search engines all seem to give an AI answer automatically. AI has some cool uses but I do not need to facilitate sucking up more electricity when I google something. I’ve never used ChatGPT, etc. I think there is a strong use case for it, but it’s not something that we should all use lightly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I loathe it. I need to figure out either how to disable it in Google search by default or switch to another search engine.

Im shocked that you hate AI and still use Google. I don't know many people who use Google anymore.

[Anonymous]

I use DuckDuckGo

[Anonymous]

Cute, OP.

Your understanding of AI is so non-existent that you think AI is only the little bot that interacts online with an end user like yourself?

No.

AI detects some forms of cancer better than human doctors. It's already in supervised use in medical settings. AI is in offices around the country, used to facilitate data searches (in highly technical areas like patents, for example), generate accurate weather predictions better than previous algorithms, build programs for finance and engineering, and so many other things.

Unless you want to live off the grid, you cannot "opt out" of AI. And you won't want to. Despite all the scaremongering, AI has the potential to save millions of lives in medical progress and emergency preparedness alone. It's already contributing to those fields significantly.

- scientist.


What a ridiculous thought.

[Anonymous]

I use it for editing distractions out of photos and for that it’s fantastic big outside of that, I absolutely hate it. More dumbing of America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cute, OP.

Your understanding of AI is so non-existent that you think AI is only the little bot that interacts online with an end user like yourself?

No.

AI detects some forms of cancer better than human doctors. It's already in supervised use in medical settings. AI is in offices around the country, used to facilitate data searches (in highly technical areas like patents, for example), generate accurate weather predictions better than previous algorithms, build programs for finance and engineering, and so many other things.

Unless you want to live off the grid, you cannot "opt out" of AI. And you won't want to. Despite all the scaremongering, AI has the potential to save millions of lives in medical progress and emergency preparedness alone. It's already contributing to those fields significantly.

- scientist.


What a ridiculous thought.

Doctors kill an average of 700,000 people each year by mistake. If AI can cut that number in half it will be an unfathomably huge accomplishment.

[Anonymous]

I have never once intentionally used AI for anything.

[Anonymous]

DCUM = AI

[Anonymous]

You remind me of my mom, who never could figure out call waiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You remind me of my mom, who never could figure out call waiting.

Believe me, this will happen to you, too. Sooner than you realize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never once intentionally used AI for anything.

I’ve used it a handful of times and have not liked the results. My coworkers who champion it the loudest have produced some truly shoddy work, but I think they think it makes them seem younger to talk it up. (It doesn’t.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cute, OP.

Your understanding of AI is so non-existent that you think AI is only the little bot that interacts online with an end user like yourself?

No.

AI detects some forms of cancer better than human doctors. It's already in supervised use in medical settings. AI is in offices around the country, used to facilitate data searches (in highly technical areas like patents, for example), generate accurate weather predictions better than previous algorithms, build programs for finance and engineering, and so many other things.

Unless you want to live off the grid, you cannot "opt out" of AI. And you won't want to. Despite all the scaremongering, AI has the potential to save millions of lives in medical progress and emergency preparedness alone. It's already contributing to those fields significantly.

- scientist.


What a ridiculous thought.

You don’t sound like a very nice scientist.