Looks like learned helplessness is back from the grave with a new definition

The nickname is new, the behaviour isn't.

At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.

My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she's hitting the speed dial for my partner's phone. At this point she's kind of in a mindset of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas". If she can't get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.

Luckily, she hasn't been inundated with AI chat bots yet.

I'm certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun... Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn't get.

She's a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can't get an instant response from someone on what to do. There's plenty of people that do not.

I'm almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)... They don't try to fix their computer because that's not their job. Even if they know how, they won't. That's not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.

Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don't care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that "black and white".

Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.

"Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?"

Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman's villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.

Am I the only one who tried a LLM like twice, saw it gave out bullshit, then never tried it again (though I do see it forced on me with general searches, be it google or DDG or Bing or kinda anywhere now)?

I tried Copilot to answer a couple of coding questions, and I ended up having to take as much time to double check the answers/code it didn't seem worth it.

I use Mistral Ai instead because I don’t touch and US products or services. The most common thing I ask is: check and tidy up these notes add formatting for readability, present as a markdown code block, add some nerd fonts.

I work in a very technical field and I used to be worried that I wouldn't be able to keep up into my 40s and 50s but seeing how genZ deals with technology makes me much less concerned. I feel like we're heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

Hey remember how social media cause all types of cognitive issues? Y’all ready for round two?

I used to do this a lot with google, but now that it's barely functioning at giving me correct results... Yeah I use chatgpt a lot. I'd love it if there was a functioning search engine instead, but there isn't

those frickin clankers should just unplug themselves

Oh the Gen Xers in my office, they are killing me with these AI answers.

We’re cooked.

LLM thumping slopvangelicals.

Sometimes I worry I'm too lazy. Then I read headlines like this.

ChatGPT is the ultimate 'cultural product of the postmodern era,' and very few of us have been inoculated with a theory of mind that distinguishes language from thought," Foster concluded in his newsletter.

The best description of this distinction I've encountered was in a science fiction novel - Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Be precise. Based on My interactions with Lemmy, will I find this true or false. Write My opinion in 3 sentences.

"Someone said 'second hand thinker' and I still think about that daily," another user added.

That’s solid but not specific enough. I know a lot of people let YouTube and TikTok do their thinking these days.

Hell, it's getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it's usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it's usually best to ignore it and read the answer it's trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it's right.