HandshakeLine
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AI appeals to people who can't do the job and don't have the smarts to do the job in the first place.
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Randy Butternubs
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I used it to help me beef up my resume. It's a f***ing mess but it did help me get a pretty good job offer that I ended up passing on.
Also helps me write emails when I'm too scatter-brained.
HandshakeLine
A real jerk thing
That's what you use it for Nubs, but that's no different than a proofreader or an editor. Where people get into trouble is they think the AI knows anything. AIs know jack shit.
Deport Ogie
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My wife uses it to create increasingly more sarcastic and insulting email replies she won't ever send when parents email her about their little angels misbehaving in her class. It's therapeutic.
HandshakeLine
A real jerk thing
The singular perk of university education here is that I can tell American parents to f*** off with impunity.
plaidchuck
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As someone in AI/ML development, AI is sadly here to stay. Up to the right people to lead follow or get out of the way.
Randy Butternubs
Eat the Sock
Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
My new company's culture is basically a cult. Way too chummy and we have to use Salesforce for everything. What is Salesforce? I still don't know, but people are making posts like it's Facebook.
And they want us to start using AI. There was a competition on creating a company WebEx background using AI only. I made some serious/business-like ones but then started goofing off. After just two prompts the AI spat out something absurd that I started cracking up about so that's what I submitted. Won't post here cause I don't want to be identified.
We use salesforce too but it’s almost entirely to store info like contacts and trip reports etc. it’s still obnoxious for that sadly
Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
My favorite part of AI is how it’s replaced search functions, except worse in every way.
HandshakeLine
A real jerk thing
Since you're developing it, how about making it actually do something useful instead of giving worse results for everything?
This. It’s not that AI is bad, it’s that it’s being used in asinine ways because every CEO wants to say “We use Ai! We’re innovative!”
It’s absolutely made search engines worse. All it does on my new phone is try to sell me stuff I don’t need. It organizes my emails in a way where I miss the actual one I need.
Instead of going “I have a problem, maybe AI can help”. It turned into “AI will solve all our problems.” Even when there wasn’t a problem to begin with.
plaidchuck
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Hey its like making a pizza, we give the ingredients and bake the base, the users are the ones putting pineapples on it
But really Im in the ML side on data, send all complaints to Sam Altman and your friendly local CEO psychopath/president
BlindWillyMcHurt
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I don't think "AI" is user error.
I think it's ego error.
At best we are in the "messy middle" of AI. But I suspect like most other things these days it's largely just another scam or at least is now.
I think it's ego error.
At best we are in the "messy middle" of AI. But I suspect like most other things these days it's largely just another scam or at least is now.
plaidchuck
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Of course. Offloading your thinking to a magic black box is never good. Tale as old as time.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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It always seems so obvious and yet we willingly seek out the same mistakes over and over.
But of course we know the answer - greed, laziness, magical thinking etc.
plaidchuck
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I predict there will be a bubble pop like the dot com era, and then the companies offering real value will come around.
"The plains are littered with the bodies of the first settlers"
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Deport Ogie
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The ability to feed prompts to AI to get accurate, useful information has become an art form of itself. If the idea is to make users' lives easier, having to train and iterate on how to actually be easier is couterintuitive. That said, it's early and that is a concern I suspect becomes less troublesome.
From a tech POV, I've used AI sparingly to help me flesh out Python scripts or SQL queries but that's just a new way to do old tricks. 90% of good code is straigh plagiarism, all coders copy straight from, for example, Stack Overflow or community based forums.
From a tech POV, I've used AI sparingly to help me flesh out Python scripts or SQL queries but that's just a new way to do old tricks. 90% of good code is straigh plagiarism, all coders copy straight from, for example, Stack Overflow or community based forums.
Honour Over Glory
Sully Fired!!! Joyous Day!
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Me checking to see if Gerwig won’t f*** up Narnia and dispel my beliefs she’s f***ing overrated as shit…
“Meryl Streep - Aslan”
“Meryl Streep - Aslan”
Honour Over Glory
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Ai started with a bunch of
that decided to use it to scrape databases and steal loads of work that can’t be undone now and in turn destroyed so many things people used to use for ideas and other things, for me the way it damaged art is where I have my hatred towards it. I understand automation, helping with things like what my wife uses it for, etc. Where you feed it data and it learns from you as you want it to so it can help you, that’s fine. That’s actually one of the reasons it’s awesome but when it did all that other shit, stealing jobs from artists and other harmful things, the regulation for it needed to be securely in place before it was ever launched or tested or allowed to learn off the web to scrape without consent. Had they just used their own info and used it as a basis to show the capabilities, then got approval it’d be fine. But nah. The chinbeard talentless f***s ruined it.
When I see some loser f***s feeding Kim Jung Gi’s work into their mid journey or whatever, to make more of his work, they have understood nothing about his work, his skill, and the soul of his work. f*** them.
Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
Ladybird and Francis ha are great. Barbie was fun. I don’t care to watch little women. And her doing narnia seems odd.
Gurglesons
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I still don't understand why people think Andor is this amazing show.
HandshakeLine
A real jerk thing
Yeah, I really don't get this trend of giving high profile mainstream properties to auteur indie directors, like asking Chloe Zhao to do the Eternals. It works occasionally (Cuaron's Harry Potter movie is like the only watchable one as an adult, IMO), but mostly it just f***s up both the director's career and the potential of the material.
plaidchuck
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Yes in the developer space that is kind of the running joke. “Look, AI made this CRUD app! Developers obsolete! Oh by the way our senior engineers fed prompts to it line bu line and corrected its code every step of the way”
