The fuck are all these comments? AI is shit, fuck AI. It fuels billionaires, destroys the environment, kills critical thinking, confidently tells you to off yourself, praises Hitler, advocates for glue as a pizza topping. This tech is a war on artists and free thought and needs to be destroyed. Stop normalizing, stop using it.

I don't hate AI. That's pointless. I hate the people who use AI to ruin everything, which is the majority of AI users today.

And then everyone applauded.

Some people I work with when they do an internet search they go straight to the ai info. Literally read out the first bit of what's there and take that as the truth.

This absolutely did not happen.

Do I love my 4-year-old? Yes

Would I let my precocious 4-year-old full of imagination write my business report? Fuck no. Are you stupid or what?

The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever other llm and I have seen more and more small association using generative ai to make their posters instead of working with artist or doing it themselves.

I’m reading AI Engineering by Chip Huyen and it’s an excellent read. As a technologist, I find the topic fascinating and would enjoy building AI agents. While not a silver bullet, generative models definitely represent technological progress and can boost productivity when used correctly. It’s just that as with everything else, the billionaires want to milk it for everything it’s worth and more to the point of crashing the economy and destroying supply chains for their own selfish interests. We just can’t have nice things.

People around me use AI all the time to get answers to generalized topics. More and more they use it like a search engine / information augmentation system.

They are not technical people. They mostly know that the information needs to be double checked and might be wrong. But usually take it at face value if the importance is low.

Honestly this is about what they did before. They would search Google, click on the first blog, skim it, and repeat until getting some answer they believe.

I too use AI regularly for brainstorming, quickly summarizing massive text messages, and reformatting text from a jumbled mess into something more cohesive, etc.

I don't love it or hate it. In some cases it saves a lot of time and is useful tool. In other cases it outputs trash that we cannot use for any serious case.

Just like a hammer or a shovel, it's a tool. Can be used the right way and it can be used the wrong way.

and then everyone clapped

ChatGPT alone has nearly a billion daily active users. Even accounting for corporate types who are pressured to use it, saying that nobody likes it or wants it is delusional.

I think the research can be pretty cool. Every implementation has been kinda horrible.

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And then everyone clapped... Blah, blah, blah.

And, I do not like AI.

I have made the conscious decision to try and not refer to it as AI, but predictive LLM or generative mimic models, to better reflect what they are. If we all manage to change our vernacular, perhaps we can make them silgtly less attractive to use for everything. Some might even feel less inclined to brag about using them for all their work.

Other options might be unethical guessing machines, deceptive echo models, or the classic from Wh40k Abominable Intelligence.

It's the same as the crypto-blockchain-NFT bullshit. A bunch of idiots with too much money put down on it, then when it doesn't become the hit they expect they start with the propaganda about how it's the greatest thing, and then when THAT fails they just take away other choices or try to cram it into everything anyhow

Then everyone in class stood up and clapped.

And everyone clapped

That was December 2024.

McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost the sales of the highly addictive drug OxyContin, according to court papers filed in Virginia on Friday.

Drug dealer must sell drugs.

AI has its uses.
You can critically think where to use it, and when. E.g. installing an open source AI on your computer that works offline.
I have used it to get pictures for my story characters.

Where’s the graphic?

Also fuck McKinsey