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Some of this is cool, lots of it is stupid, and lots of people are using it to scam other people. But it is getting used, and it is getting better.
What! Is this guess or actual fact?
Oh, of course; but the question being, are you personally friends with any of these people - do you know them.
If I learned a friend generated AI trash for their blog, they wouldn’t be my friend much longer.
This makes you a pretty shitty friend.
I mean, I cannot stand AI slop and have no sympathy for people who get ridiculed for using it to produce content... but it's different if it's a friend, jesus christ, what kind of giant dick do you have to be to throw away a friendship because someone wanted to use a shortcut to get results for their own personal project? That's supremely performative. I don't care for the current AI content but I wouldn't say something like this thinking it makes me sound cool.
I miss when adults existed.
edit: i love that there's three people who read this and said "Well I never! I would CERTAINLY sever a friendship because someone used an AI product for their own project! " Meanwhile we're all wondering why people are so fucking lonely right now.
And yet none of this is actually "AI".
The wide range of these applications is a great example of the "AI" grift.
You can name it whatever you want, and I highly encourage people to be critical of the tech, but this is so we get better products, not to make it "go away."
It's not going away. Nothing you or anyone else, no matter how many people join in the campaign, will put this back in the toothpaste tube. Short of total civilizational collapse, this is here to stay. We need to work to change it to something useful and better. Not just "BLEGH" on it without offering solutions. Or you will get left behind.
I looked through you comment history. It's impressive how many times you repeat this mantra and while people fownvote you and correct you on bad faith, you keep doing it.
Why? I think you have a hard time realizing that people may have another definition of AI than you. If you don't agree with thier version, you should still be open to that possibility. Just spewing out your take doesn't help anyone.
For me, AI is a broad gield of maths, including ALL of Machine Learning but also other fields, such as simple if/else programming to solve a very specific task to "smarter" problem solving algorithms such as pathfinding or other atatistical methods for solving more data-heavy problems.
Machine Learning has become a huge field (again all of it inside the field of AI). A small but growing part of ML is LLM, which we are talking about in this thread.
All of the above is AI. None of it is AGI - yet.
You could change all of your future comments to "None of this is "AGI"" in order to be more clear. I guess that wouldn't trigger people as much though...
I'm a huge critic of the AI industry and the products they're pushing on us... but even I will push back on this kind of blind, mindless hate from that user without offering any explanation or reasoning. It's literally as bad as the cultists who think their AI Jesus will emerge any day now and literally make them fabulously wealthy.
This is a technology that's not going away, it will only change and evolve and spread throughout the world and all the systems that connect us. For better or worse. If you want to succeed and maybe even survive in the future we're going to have to learn to be a LOT more adaptable than that user above you.
If automatically generated documentation is a grift I need to know what you think isn't a grift.