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.
I think you're being too literal, they mean they hate having to use it or they hate being constantly exposed to its shitty output. Obviously pretty much nobody hates, like, Markov chains.
I also hate the term AI.
And I'm not sure about the actual code either.
I had an idea for a SciFi story I wanted to write where a person's consciousness is uploaded into a computer. Now I can't even trito it without feeling gross because LLMs ruined everything for me, even AI scifi.
I reserve the hate (well, severe disdain and contempt, hate is personal in my book, haven't needed it for quite a while) for the C-Suites and owners, users get contempt if they're using it to think for them and a pass with some sympathy if they've found a way to use it as a tool while retaining executive function. LLMs and broader machine learning are fine, just a tool. You can use a wrench constructively or give someone a concussion, that's on you.
SamA is the exception, hate that market cornering fucker (and yes it's personal, I was going to go AM5 this year).
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.
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.
Great way to make yourself immediately untrustworthy
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?
McKinsey isn't exactly stupid, its amorality run amok and a culture of cutthroats.
If you've ever worked with consultants or managers in general, like 50-75% of them are fucking stupid. Just because they can convince other idiots that they're not, doesn't mean they aren't. I've watched the blind lead the blind into financial ruin, while getting paid big bucks to do it.
And then everyone applauded.
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.
I think of an LLM as extraordinarily lossy compression. All the training data is essentially encoded in the model. You can get an approximation of the data back out again with the right input.
I don't think it's any less reliable that random blogs on the web, and I don't have to wade through SEO tripe either.
The annoying thing though is that all the random blogs on the web are written with using these LLMs now. It makes it much harder to be critical of your sources, because they're all coming from a unnamed, proprietary LLM with no information about who owns it or the training data. At least before, I could look up the user or check out their other articles, now every article is randomly generated from some unknown prompt.
I'm sorry, but all the use cases you listed show that you're just lazy. Stop it. It's embarassing.
I'm lazy as fuck. I want to solve problems in the easiest way humanly possible. With the least amount of effort output.
What about you? Do you take the hard 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.
The closest figure I could find said that chat gpt sees around 800 million users per week, not per day. The per month statistics at the height of January 2026 was 5.72 billion visits. Which means about 185 millionish (rounding up) per day. The statistics often go from visits to users. I imagine users means unique users and visits can mean the amount of times anyone has accessed the website. Regardless all of this would mean a majority does not use chat gpt
And what's going to happen when the VC funding dries up and they have to charge what it actually costs to run?
Regardless, it also means hundreds of millions of people use it and other AI tools on a daily basis. They're not all being forced to at gunpoint. Trying to pretend that the opinions of one's own social circle are "everyone" and that people who disagree do not exist is not a persuasive argument for anything.
I don't think it's "regardless" at all.
My point was that saying that "everyone hates this" and "nobody wants this" (what the shirt in the post says) is flatly untrue. Whether ChatGPT has a billion daily active users or 500 million weekly active users or whatever is just trivia that doesn't really change the gist of what I'm saying. Lots and lots and lots of people really like AI tools and use them every single day. Ignoring that fact and pretending like everyone agrees with you is dumb.
Most people would take the statement as hyperbole. Also, the claim wasn't against all AI use. It's the shoving it everywhere that they say people hate. Even among those I know who use and like AI, they say it's being shoved into things pretty arbitrarily and needlessly. Having it available to use is one thing. Ramming it down our throats is another.
They’re not all being forced to at gunpoint.
No, but a lot of them are being ordered to do so by their employer.
[...] has nearly a billion daily active users.
So has Facebook, or opioids.
Your point is invalid.
Using it specifically is, at least for me, something different than having it included in everything else. It's everywhere, no matter if it actually offers real benefits to the user and that's the issue.
Yep. Fediverse is in a bubble. People in general have no feelings about it. They don't love it or hate it, they just use it. They have joked about how it gets stuff wrong until like a year ago and that's an old joke now.
A lot of people here have passionate hatred about it and they project that it someone doesn't hate it as much, they must love it. But the largest majority have no feelings towards it. It's just a tool, useful for some things, not as useful for others, that's it.
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.
Is this because LLMs are getting better, or because search engines are getting worse?
Because they are definitely getting worse. I get redirected to a brand new slopsite daily.
Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.
Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding "site:reddit.com" to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.
I think the research can be pretty cool. Every implementation has been kinda horrible.
The research/tinkerer community overwhelmingly agrees. They were making fun of Tech Bros before chatbots blew up.
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.
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.
And then everyone clapped... Blah, blah, blah.
And, I do not like AI.
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This absolutely did not happen.
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.
The problem is that even the open source models (and they're not fully open source anyway) aren't exactly trained ethically. They're still trained on stolen data, they are still consuming gargantuan quantities of water and using the same amount of power as a small city.
They are in no way harmless. The only thing that's better about them is that they don't steal your private data. The environmental issues are still there though.
The pictures you got for your story are a result of plagiarism.
I'm not actually making a value judgement. If they make you happy, that's great and im happy for you.
Kinda like how diamond engagement rings make people happy. You gotta accept how that sausage was made
Where’s the graphic?
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
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