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[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 63 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

For reference, the "Hopeless Dipshit Percentage" in any population is about 25-33%.

About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can't name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn't stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

[-] dragonsidedd@mstdn.science 19 points 3 weeks ago

@salacious_coaster @dgerard Wait till you learn the percentage of ostensibly fully functional adults that have an Invisible Friend in the Sky

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 34 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but that particular lunacy is grandfathered in to society, so I avoid it in my rants

[-] SnotFlickerman 11 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know how true this still holds but two years after 9/11 70% of the US thought Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. My guess is that number continues to be higher than 30%.

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm really hoping it's a slipup that you included the Earth revolving around the sun in the list of crazy, there's quite good evidence for heliocentrism!

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, that was a mistake, thanks for catching

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, "ideally" (to AI companies) those 3% would be the people who use it the most, so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff. Depending on who are considered AI users, it's not awful as a B2B thing. Selling to the general public is definitely a no-go though.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff.

I have really bad news about what percentage that would be

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"businesses and employees"

the business pays for it, the employees "use" it.

the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.

if the business is measuring "productivity", how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like you're trying to pick up water with your fingers?

if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face

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[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

they look forward to turning chatbots into a sea of spam:

We expect rapid adoption of advertising models, transaction fees, affiliate revenue, and marketplace models.

We're doomed.

In the last weeks Pinterest became unusable imo. The AI "sea of spam" is no joke. 7 in 10 posts are ads now. AI ads. Every one of them is a grotesque AI mimic of the content you're viewing, all words meaningless gibberish. The things on the thumbnails suggest, but you can't make things really out by just seeing the thumbnails.

So i clicked them a few times too much. First by curiosity, then by mistake, because Pinterest does everything to make an ad look like a post.

7 in 10 posts.

After all these years successfully procrastinating with Pinterest, it has become a dopamine blocking experience.

[-] praetor@mstdn.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

@kamenlady @dgerard i knew the guys who started Pinterest. My account is literally like one of the first 10 public accounts. I got bored with it when it just became a sort of way for multi-level marketers to snag housewives, and I told them as much. But I'm surprised they allow AI slop on it. Genuine creativity and inspiration is why they really started it. Tote was pretty slick for that. It's sad what it's turned into.

[-] tk@f.kawa-kun.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

@dgerard @kamenlady The Internet is dying. :(

[-] masukomi@connectified.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

@kamenlady @dgerard see also why Duolingo is rapidly circling the drain.

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[-] HedyL@awful.systems 25 points 3 weeks ago

Completely unrelated fact, but isn't the prevalence of cocaine use among U. S. adults considered to be more than 1% as well?

(Referring to this, of course - especially the last part: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/)

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 20 points 3 weeks ago

cocaine users are convinced that everyone not using cocaine will be left behind, as use of cocaine leads to increase in productivity and innovation

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago
[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

when I put a pull request in my vein and I tell you things aren't quite the same when I'm rushing on my run and I feel just like Altman's son

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Mods when a post escapes containment: No! No!!

Sickos like me when a posts escapes containment and they get to see the worst takes humanity has to offer: Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!

[-] zout@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago

Seems a lot to be honest.

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

This shit is not Artifical Intellegence. It's an internet scrabbing software that understands your input then searches and summerizes the answer back to you in your language....AND so many times it makes mistakes while trying to even do that. 0 intellegence, 0 creativety, 0 feelings/empathy/sympathy , 0 everythign. In programming, it's like a computer-science intern on methamphadmines. he's searching stackoverflow and githubs repos for any question you have, but again he will never come up with a new geniuos unseen before scripts of programming and he may make mistakes.

Also, it brainrotted the skill of learning itself to kids and killed our interactions and creativity

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

They are going to make it sub service to kill off the poor people from living with society.

[-] Airowird 10 points 3 weeks ago

While still scouring the free web parts for training data...

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago

let me guess 3% are the corporate heads, c-suites, mba, and the people either implementing it or deploying it.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

That is known & not a problem for the megacorps.

They are building an environment where using AI will be a must (like smartphones that spy on you have become today).

At that point it becomes overpriced & will under-deliver (the monopolistic enshitification of an already shitty offer).

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[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

epic

Enshittify faster pls

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I mostly have this gemini assitant because google esentially added it for me. Of course i tried a bit of gpt. My advice is that, if they're good there's a chance that they many not be anymore in the future. Or not how you expect them to be. We have to make it good too, but right now the world is hooked with AI.

I have seen to much ai spam to care for ai images, there is this youtube series with ai assisted animations (monoverse, neural viz), that is the only good use of ai i ever seen so far in media creation. But, other than that, it's getting distopian out there.

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[-] brap@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve used it here and there for recipe inspiration based on what’s in my cupboard, but really don’t see any other use for it my life. I would drop it in an instant if it became chargeable because it’s pretty shit at most things otherwise.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I use ChatGPT to answer the questions for my annual mandatory idiotic work safety training. Just copy/paste the questions and choices in, boom, get the right answers, don’t even have to read the shit. I’d pay $0.01 for that.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

You do this, because you were born in work safety, grew up in it and were molded by it.

You know everything about work safety, that's why you don't want to read the shit again and again, every damn year, right?

[Natalie Portmann look of concern]

Right?

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago

hey so I got this letter from OSHA saying you’re no longer qualified to post here? please step away from the forklift

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