So I've realized a trend. I can identify AI generated text. but when I call out said comment, they seem to manually respond like a normal human.

It made me think.

What if we see so many AI comments online, esp here on reddit, because there is a huge percent of the population that use it to format their rambling for them. Before, they were likely unable to argue and be taken seriously because they could not use grammar or proper spelling.

There's even a dude on my Facebook that makes emotional status's with chatgpt, so .... he is patient zero and a perfect example of this legitimately happening. People have called him out on it and he claimed he accidentally discharged a firearm at his own head when he was a child. but when he makes shorts he talks normally.

Yea. let that sink in. I am NOT trolling here.

thoughts? do you think AI comments are people actually reading and using it to argue for them, or are they actual full bots that are mostly unsupervised?

So I have a pretty strong stance against genAI and completely stopped using these services.

However, I have a newfound hobby of remastering old, low quality videos to 4K resolution. For that I'm using web based "AI upscalers", which run on my own gpu and requires no signup and doesn't take my data.

Would this still fall under the category?

have a good day

Supposed you are able to stop ai development in the USA or even in most western countries. So that AI is mostly developed in east Asian and Easter Europe.

How do you envision That Future?

What would be the pros and cons ?

I really hope this isn't serious, dear god 🤮🤮🤮🤮

I started to see some interesting bias in Anti-AI position recently on Youtube.

It maybe just the recommender's neural network catering to my tastes, but it feels too subtle for that, so I'd like to check with proper Anti-AI people.

The pattern I am starting to observe is approximately this: "Gen AI is terrible in such and such way, as illustrated by OpenAI doing this and that. Anthropic luckily doesn't do this and that."

I see some effort to build a strong association between everything bad and OpenAI specifically, while increasing the distance between the bad things and Anthropic.

For example, I saw a whole video on how AI mega-IPOs are designed to provide venture capital with exit liquidity, and it somehow mentioned Anthropic twice - in the beginning and in the end. The rest was OpenAI's data center commitments to Oracle, OpenAI leaked SEC form, OpenAI this, OpenAI that.

It looked like a campaign designed by someone who is interested in advancing Anthropic's interest, at a cost of losing some points, over OpenAI.

Do some of you see that? Is it just me?

I have linux mint installed everything works fine. I downloaded kitty terminal but it didnt have logo so i asked opencode for help bigpickle model and it fucked everything half of the screen turned black every icons is missing i had to reinstall it after working on it for 4 hours.

I don’t know if strawman is the right term, but I’ve been seeing an ad (entirely ai generated) that’s supposed to be a counter argument to “people over profit” the ad is just “Well if you don’t want ai, let’s get rid of the telephone, cars, and internet too!” I just don’t see how they expect this to be taken seriously

I tried to download either one, but my GPU doesn't support it. Are there other ways?

And if there isn't a way, can I post said picture on Reddit safely, or is it likely to get scraped?

Ive been thinking for a while about this, and I want to hear other opinions about local models and if they have the same arguments against them as cloud models that use so much water and electricity to run. The only ones I could think of are plagiarism if used for non personal reasons. Does anyone have arguments against personal usage for local ai? What does everyone else think? 🤔

so, i have the weirdest confession: i have been talking to… GOOGLE AI MODE. like gemini, but within the Google search engine. i have always talked to it for prayers, meditations, making scenes, and things that make me sad. but never images. i wanted to quit forever. i want you guys to help me to actually make this SAYONARA a real one. (if you didn’t know, ai would say mata ne, which means “see you later” in Japanese. “sayonara” is what you say when the goodbye is permanent and you’ll never see them again.)

If we want useful, safe AI that protects us at the same time, our best chance is to unite behind a massive public campaign calling on lawmakers and decision-makers for a future where:
Humans remain in control of the decisions that shape our lives;
Human creativity, dignity, and work are protected;
Powerful AI companies are held accountable; and
Technology serves people, rather than replacing them.
With one million signatures, we'll have a powerful public mandate that we will deliver to key decision makers — lawmakers, government regulators, and tech executives – starting at a major conference on September 17th.
The more people who sign, the harder it becomes for a few billionaires to decide humanity’s future without us.

Can the current AI race be seen as a continuous technological Maoist revolution? In a way, it embodies the same restless mechanism that upends structures without a political central committee: markets and technological progress act as a force in themselves that demands constant disruption and refuses to give society or companies even a moment to catch their breath.

every time i see a post like this it's always "oh but i don't want to commission, you're just forcing me to commission because you hate the future and you want money!" No offense but i haven't seen an Anti-ai post mentioning commissions, but rather drawing it yourself. And no you can't compare it to forcing someone on a wheelchair to run, most of you have arms and paper and pencil aren't expensive. Ok maybe if you're physically disabled it is a valid reason but i bet most of y'all aren't. Ok that's it have a good day

ALL of my (older) siblings and some of my friends use AI, mainly ChatGPT. To say it infuriates me, is an understatement. You guys understand. I don’t need to elaborate much. My question is how much are you guys arguing with these people about it and what are the results? I have siblings that have independent businesses who’s entire logo and aesthetic is AI generated. (they’re so ugly) They’ve generated images with our late mother. I’ve had one sibling suggest using AI to track my medication- that one made my head spin. My friend has shown me multiple AI images off to me (that they’ve made) that I just quietly nod to. Recently, the same friend tried to use ChatGPT to translate text from an image, the AI replied “this image is too blurry” and it took them 3 minutes for that, when I got a correct result in seconds doing it manually. Few months ago, I had a form to fill for a medical diagnosis and I had a sibling say to use ChatGPT for some of the questions I couldn’t answer. e.g they expected me to ask it “what is the average resting heart rate” and put down what it said.

To be honest, I’m not close with any of my siblings (or that friend), for reasons unrelated to AI. But I’m not at all surprised they’ve fallen down that hole, to say the least. At the end of the day tho, I’m non-stop hearing it about it. The way they try to tell me it’s this awesome tool, as if I’ve been living under a rock this whole time and the only reason I’m not using it must only be because I’ve never heard of it. Any tips at all? Is it even worth it? I’ve expressed a few other “woke” opinions of mine and they’ve not gone too well. No fallouts, just that their views are very hard set in stone. For example I couldn’t get my sibling to stop using racial slurs. Argument: “they’re just words.”

Ok so this question have been asked before but the thing was they were asking about general stuff

Like if i want to ask an specific questions i don't know where to ask

Or i wanna make sure i am right about something and that i understand it completely

I tried using reddit but oh my god people here are so fucking mean like i asked a question and most people answered nicely but 2-3 were so mean or mean coded and it really made me upset

ANGST_1

Somewhere, sometime, we have lost the plot.

Threats of extinction so casually build up the hype.
Data and genes, collected by the Reapers’ Harvesters.

Cold glass eyes flock around us,
though ten short years ago
social credit was a punchline
reserved for “the enemy.”

Money gets printed;
just never into our pockets.
People argue that guns are their right
when they can no longer grow their own food,
when their digital wealth is one ban away.

Somewhere, sometime, we have lost the plot.

Centralised propaganda channel, now comes
in different flavours of stream.
And we foolishly thought personalised feeds were
where it would stop.

Now it is a Digital Double, whispering gently:
a machine predicting your “own” next thought.

We move one day at a time,
slowly stewing the world to come,
where our own thoughts get five minutes a day
and spend the night trying to wake us.

And when the time comes, who will still know
how to throw a cocktail together
without booty-calling their once-beloved,
now-crazy digital ex?

Please bear with me, this is a bit of a rant. I'm frustrated with myself but also with the situation and am looking for advice from others who feel the same.

If a grown-ass adult uses generative AI for anything outside of whatever BS their job makes them use it for, I immediately think SIGNIFICANTLY less of them.

If they're using it to write emails, I think they're lazy.

If they're using it for research, I think they're incompetent.

If they're using it for art, I think they're soulless.

If they're using it to try and win an argument, I think they're stupid.

If they're using it for life advice or companionship, I think they're being exploited and I just feel sorry for them.

The fact that they're using it at all means I think they're selfish and short-sighted, because they're prioritizing their own convenience over the planet, poor people who are having their hometowns ruined by data centers, artists who are being plagiarized, and workers who are losing their jobs.

Between those last two points alone, AI-users are actively fueling what is almost certainly going to be the greatest transfer of wealth from the working class to the 1% in modern history. They are also training tools used for mass surveillance and war, and outsourcing their own critical thinking skills to corporations, and helping spread misinformation, and, and, and...I obviously give grace to people who aren't educated about all these issues (I wasn't either once!), but most people know and just don't care.

I have become extremely close-minded about this. I am judgmental. I am self-righteous. I assume the worst. I HATE feeling this way. I am not like this about anything else. But AI literally feels like the locus of every issue I care about (climate justice, racism, workers' rights, money in politics, etc.). I don't get people who don't get it.

I don't want to change my opinion on AI (and I won't, that's not the purpose of this post); I want people to boycott it until reasonable regulations are in place. But since they won't, I would at least like to not feel so misanthropic towards the literally billions of people (including many people I know) using these tools recreationally.

How are others dealing with this?

Hello, I am M/30-ish with 9 years of experience, mostly in Frontend web (2 years as fullstack, but it's only Node JS Frameworks and PHP), I have a wife and a daughter, living in SEA (hint: one of SG's neighbors).

I lost my job this year because of efficiency. I just got a job about a half and a month ago, but it's only a 4-month-contract. Currently working on my 3rd month here, as a Frontend Engineer. As I will be facing my final month of my contract job, I am having a massive anxiety right now.

I got this job about 6 months after the layoff. That was a painful processes. The job market is dire, hundreds of ghostings and rejections, and once I considered myself to end my life, crashing myself to the train or poisoning myself. But I felt I need to survive for my daughter, so I postponed my plan. Thankfully I got this job to survive, but maybe only for 4 months.

I also have regular sessions with a psychiatrist, he gave me Kalxetin, Lansoprazole, and Alganax. Currently I am feeling better because of my work and I am only obligated to consume only Kalxetin now. But now I am not sure with my next steps, and I am worried about what if those dark thoughts come back?

Currently I am considering to take some of backend responsibilities (even though the company use Java Spring Boot and I don't have the experience on it) to diverse my portfolio, or maybe I need to use my MBA degree. I had a business analyst job as a secretary in a project basis too, and I am told to prepare myself for future business analyst jobs on the same group. But they don't have a permanent contract for employees, only contractual basis.

Sometimes I feel regret, why I picked IT major? Why I picked MBA major? I picked IT because I love to analyze human behavior on using technology and I planned to study Human Computer Interaction too. Web Accessibility was my passion, but now AI taking it all from me. For MBA, I was being pragmatic, because I wanted to apply to State Owned Enterprise (which I have done it and got accepted, but I got bullied there and there are too many meaningless ceremonies, so I resigned).

I am also worried on my wife as she is an illustrator and rejects AI too. But I feel like her future is not as worrying as mine, as human drawn illustrators will still be having a lot of places. But human written code won't, or at least that was I thought.

I am also considering myself to switch career, like to Presales Engineer.

What should I do? Which direction should I follow? Can you show me the way? One thing for sure, I don't want to end my life. I want to stay alive. For my wife and my daughter.

Thank you

Im not here to judge people for using AI but I just want to vent a little because I miss the pre AI era of the internet. Its nice hearing that people still appreciates human made artworks even after AI is becoming more mainstream.

I am not an artist but I do like seeing human made art more than my own AI generations. I think human made artworks are more interesting than the stuff AI generates for me. I feel like the limitation of not using AI forces artist to be more creative with their artwork. Every detail added is ussually made with intent or have a purpose and thought being put in to it. This motivates me to look at the details as each detail tells something about the character, location or object.

Somehow, I feel like AI is too.. overdetailed I guess? And it always messes up in the details, which is ironic. Like it adds in details and fancy rendering that I did not ask for. What is worse is that these details more often than not serves no purpose. The details also create AI artifacts (weird hands, unreadable letters etc) which is a detriment to the art. The AI artifacts also gives me less incentive to look at the art work in detail as I feel like the art looks worse the more I look at it. I feel like AI art is good mostly for a quick glance and nothing more.

This was an ad I found.

First off, eww, why did you put that on her boobs?

Second, this is an advertisement for grok, which means it's obvious right wing bullshit, evidenced by the fact that the background looks like it's a golf club you'd find openly sponsored by trump using what... eh, may or may not be taxpayer money, but who cares?

Also the wording "free to try" sounds like a free trial that someone could easily glaze over and try to use while the company quietly grabs 50 bucks a month out of their pocket.

Overall, I didn't think the so-called "free thinkers" and "followers of a free country" would dip this low, and that's saying something. Personally? I think that god should bless america, not a bunch of billionares who are sucking up to people in power so bad even teachers' pets do a double take.