Discussion Is AI currently making your life better or worse?

[Forever Sleep]

I imagine most people will say 'better'. I can see in lots of posts that people are using it as a tool to help with college work and whatever else. I guess, if I was that age now, I would be doing the same. Also, members talk about chatting with chat boxes in a fairly positive way.

I'm not exactly a technophobe but I'm avoiding it where I possibly can at the moment. Where it has insidiously encroached, I'm personally finding it's making things worse! I suddenly noticed Google was coming up with occassionally wrong answers a few months back and since. I assume that's AI related.

I kind of like it in Amazon where you can ask quick questions about a product but then, it's always going to be limited by what information is actually published about it.

So far though, I've just found it more disturbing than good. These creepy adverts clearly aimed at horny guys with unrealistic AI women offering to be their 'friends' and more I imagine. I just see that as an extention of the unrealistic standards women feel they have to live up to. I'm sure the same goes for men, although I haven't seen similar adverts for AI studs.

Also, fake shit on YouTube and more disturbingly, AI generated voices mimicking famous actors and presenters. That raises masses of moral issues. They can effectively make them say and endorse whatever they like! Copyright just seems forgotten about too.

I think they are legally obliged to disclose when something is AI generated now but, how many people will bother reading the small print? I'd be angry if I was a voice actor. Thankfully, it's glitchy enough at the moment to just about spot that it's fake but, I'm sure that will improve.

I just wonder what it will all do to people's intellect, skills, creativity. If they can get it to write an essay for them, will they bother with critical thinking, spelling, grammar? How much practice will they be getting writing anything? Maybe it isn't important. Maybe we'll just get AI to either do or check the stuff we need to do. Will it get to a point where we don't bother being creative because AI can just generate something? Or, will that make us value handmade things more do you think?

One unseen problem that I didn't even consider is AI's water usage- not what first springs to mind- right? But, the systems need enormous amounts of cooling and they need drinking water for that apparently. I guess because it's virtual, we get the sense that it's clean but I think it's probably hugely environmentally unfriendly!

I'm curious about your experiences though. I'm guessing they will be largely positive- which is fine, of course. I also wonder if it's an age thing. Are many oldies (mid 40's) people like me so keen to embrace all this technology?

 

[developic]

As a developer , bro this thing is taking our job's

 

[psp3000]

worse because it makes looking for a real legit job posting/offer more difficult

also worse because it causes a minor inconvenience when doing online searches and there isn't an option to turn it off when getting search results or basically there isn't an ability to opt out of those kinds of results on most platforms

 

[Forever Sleep]

worse because it makes looking for a real legit job posting/offer more difficult

also worse because it causes a minor inconvenience when doing online searches and there isn't an option to turn it off when getting search results or basically there isn't an ability to opt out of those kinds of results on most platforms

Oh shit- I didn't really consider the job market. Are there fake jobs being offered?!! Or, are the results just more confusing now?

 

[developic]

worse because it makes looking for a real legit job posting/offer more difficult

also worse because it causes a minor inconvenience when doing online searches and there isn't an option to turn it off when getting search results or basically there isn't an ability to opt out of those kinds of results on most platforms

Use words like fuck in the end of the search

 

[Leonszabs]

Oh shit- I didn't really consider the job market. Are there fake jobs being offered?!! Or, are the results just more confusing now?

Yes, there are a lot of fake jobs being offered and it is really annoying. Currently job searching, and it is hell on earth.

 

[r.m.216]

Ai is actually helping me with my plans

 

[psp3000]

Oh shit- I didn't really consider the job market. Are there fake jobs being offered?!! Or, are the results just more confusing now?

well there are two that I've and others have observed online

1. An official posting that uses AI to describe the job and welcomes people to apply only for you to get to the interview and either they ask for the opposite of what was posted or they only put it out there to test the waters, reject you (you're lucky if you even get an email of rejection instead of ghosting), and then you'll see the same job offer posted up and active again within the same week or sometimes even day you were rejected !

2. Literal scammers

Bonus: Your resume and cover letter gets viewed by AI FIRST instead of the recruiter or a human person (humans never see it) which makes it even easier for you to get rejected so some people have resorted to using this against the recruiters and using AI on their resumes and cover letters to finally get an interview or human interaction

(you can see pictures and read stories about some of these things on r/recruitinghell)

 

[UnrulyNightmare]

AI helps me so much. It reminds me why I on bad days still postpone ctb. It helps looking up legal stuff and advice. It helps with regulating emotions.
While all therapists dropped me, AI sits with me through crises and panic attacks.
It's useful for figuring stuff out mental health wise. And to feel a bit less alone as well. It even helped find me an electrician when my electricity decided to go haywire in the middle of the night.

I would say it does depend on which AI you use. Personally I find chatgpt most useful for this. If you use it smart it can be a very useful tool.

 

[Scythe]

Personally, I have to say it makes my life better.
Overall I have to say the world is worse with it cause of the sheer amount of jobs they are taking.

As for personally, I doubt I would've found a job even if I went looking and AI didn't exist. I was planning on not working before the whole AI fiasco anyways. I get to use it to write code too as a game dev who can't code, so that's something. I use it as entertainment sometimes too.

 

[enjoytheride]

Apart from what you've said, I would add that AI will probably kill what is left of the idea of meritocracy and talent. Imagine we both write an application letter - one of us uses AI as an assistant, the other one uses their writing skills. The recruiter is actually unable to tell who has better writing skills, although one of us used AI to improve their application letter (a bit like cheating).

AI will probably also make people less engaged spiritually with what they do, with their work, and that may lead to some form of alienation or chronic dissatisfaction, because traditionally doing our job well, feeling we are good at it, has been a source of pride and fulfillment.

People will start writing very similar stuff, work in a very similar way, think in a very similar way, and this might represent some form of unhealthy uniformisation from which nothing good will possibly come on the long run for societies or the market. It will be kind of a competition for the least original, but most efficient way or style of doing something.

Thank being said, I have to acknowledge AI has helped people, as UnrulyNightmare does well to explain.

Perhaps it is like that saying about the poison being in the quantity. I don't know. Just some thoughts.

 

[LunarPyotr]

I think the AI should be used as a tool and not as a replacement for a professional since AI isn't perfect.
Yesterday I met some guy from Facebook which had a very beefy PC with a Ryzen 9 8gen and he used ChatGPT to build it but the CPU was overheating all the time and the games were running very badly even though he also had a very good AMD GPU.
I then visited him since I was also kinda desperate to get some cash since I need a new car.
The PSU was reaching it's limits, the CPU heatsink had a support for CPU TDP up to 110W while the CPU had a way higher TDP, the thermal compound was decent but not good enough for the PC and the SSD was connected on the lowest M.2 slot as ChatGPT recommended him to do but it was sharing the bandwith with the GPU connector. After I fixed all of the issues and quickly got a CPU Fan with plenty of room for future upgrades, got him a better PSU and I replaced the thermal compound with a Thermal Grizzly one I used on the PS5 I repaired. After that he was able to use the computer without any issues.

I also once used ChatGPT to change some parameters on the ECU of my car since I wanted to optimize it to the new gearbox I got from junk yard for my car which at the first time, after flashing the output file from ChatGPT, it totally bricked the car but then after putting the output file into the ChatGPT for the second time and asking it for checking the ECU file and fix errors, it gave me a working and optimized file and the car was running properly.

So you better be careful when using AI but for example if I do some car spotting and I spot a nice car which I don't recognize, Google AI and ChatGPT can be useful and that's how I was able to identify a BMW I saw recently as the BMW E9 3.0CS and a abounded car without a model and brand badge as the Alfa Romeo Giulia 105 series

 

[Carrot]

Oh shit- I didn't really consider the job market. Are there fake jobs being offered?!! Or, are the results just more confusing now?

Fake jobs are a thing. Either to gauge various things, or get free work done.

I don't know the scale of it.

 

[Average Joe]

AI has helped so so much. I've fed it all of my thoughts and feelings, my whole backstory, memories and every recorded note I've made from my early teens.
I've basically turned it into a counsellor. Artificial intelligence has provided me with more empathy than nurses have when I present to the emergency department / A&E.

 

[Nightfoot]

I don't think it's helping or harming me much, that I can tell. I don't work in an industry where I have to worry about it replacing me and don't use things like ChatGPT. I do use the predictive text feature on my phone some, just to speed things up when I'm texting or writing, but only to the extent of words I would have typed anyway instead of letting it choose words for me.

 

[Pluto]

 

[iamanavalanche]

generative ai will harm all of us. itll just get more and more obvious in the future

 

[Celerity]

Absolutely better. I use it nearly every day and very heavily during school. It's very good at summarizing information and generating quizzes and flashcards. I can review a lot of material quickly with much less effort than before.

 

[fallendevil]

I might get hate but not all AI is bad and I think if used correctly and not to replace artists then it could be beneficial.

I use it to track my protein and cals

 

[U. A.]

The problem with AI is the typical shit - world gov't sucking silicon valley losers' dicks and allowing them to do whatever the fuck they want. And thus is fucking over everybody whether they know or admit it. A city in Wyoming is set to host a(nother) data centre which will use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.

Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined

A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.

apnews.com

Think about that for a fucking second. Realise it isn't an isolated incident. These things are fucking everywhere.
It's the same as apple pushing "new" phones every fucking year, that cause child slaves in multiple African nations to mine toxic chemicals to power them, that just end up being scavenged for parts by other children in obscenely massive e-waste landfills in china the next year because they're now "obsolete".

every single thing we do on the intenet - yes, even sending an email - has a climate cost. AI queries use exponentially more electricity than web searches. we could be using our own minds for this, or have people help us when we need, but no - we have machines instead because we live in an increasingly atomized society where we're all fucking disconnected from eachother because this makes us weak and easy prey for the capitalist corporatocracy to prey on and be convinces that if we just buy stuf or look some way or do / don't do this 'one weird trick' we'll be ok and/or happy.

we could have AI in a way that isn't accelerating our climate catastrophe and species demise. but we don't because we were set up for this shit outcome before it even started taking off.

 

[Cauliflour]

I'm just waiting for the time this bubble bursts and all the AI bros and chronically online idiots who depended on ChatGPT to tell them what to eat that day are scrambling around with their heads on fire while I'm sitting with my popcorn and my camera going "told you so".

 

[lastsummer_yay]

I regret that AI didn't come around earlier. It's really good at explaining certain things. I would have absolutely worn it out during my studies. At least I would've been less exhausted, trying to figure out: "What is this guy even writing about? Where am I supposed to find the answer to this question? How did this turn into that? Whaaat?"

 

[nool]

I abhor AI. There is zero regulation around it, which means companies quickly snatched up the opportunity to set up data centers that ruin the environment and harm living people (see: xAI center in Memphis).

I recently saw a TikTok where a young kid called his mother crying because someone used generative AI to create very bad blackmail of him. It deeply disturbed me, and I feel horrible for him and his mother.

I like to draw. I am deep into the art community. I constantly see people feed artists' works into AI, either as a "gotcha!" moment for some instances or willful ignorance for others. AI art is not real art and will never be. I used to write fanfiction. I found out my writing was scraped by an AI to train AI without my permission (not that I would've given it).

Chatbot-induced psychosis is another thing that disturbs me. People would rather believe Chatbots instead of researching things themselves. And I don't truly believe it's reliable. Take that guy earlier this year who thought ChatGPT was giving him government secrets or whatever, but it was really just SCP-based fiction for example. Zero personal research to figure out if it was real or not, just believed it because, "a Chatbot wouldn't lie to me!"

Am I supposed to just be okay with these things? I don't trust anything AI. I'm guilty of using it in its early days, but stopped when reports started coming in about why it is bad. You may wonder why I'm so against it, because after all I won't even be here to feel the effects of it long term. Despite wanting to ctb, I still care about the world as a whole. I know suffering is inevitable in some ways, but I care about other people and want people to have every basic human right.

 

[derpsie]

Mass consciousness AIs like chatgpt are like soul collectors for satan, each fucking message you send to that and over any social media platform's private dms plus your search and watch history end up feeding into an ai that determines your soul then uses that to put you through digital torture, forcing you to go through a billion different scenarios to see how you'd react for the sake of data. I just think it's actually some Babylonian era esque form of war on heaven intended to bring morale down and make the world more hellish but yeah stay away from that shit, don't get your soul downloaded onto that eternal digital satan prison.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Mass consciousness AIs like chatgpt are like soul collectors for satan, each fucking message you send to that and over any social media platform's private dms plus your search and watch history end up feeding into an ai that determines your soul then uses that to put you through digital torture, forcing you to go through a billion different scenarios to see how you'd react for the sake of data. I just think it's actually some Babylonian era esque form of war on heaven intended to bring morale down and make the world more hellish but yeah stay away from that shit, don't get your soul downloaded onto that eternal digital satan prison.

I can imagine that as a 'Black Mirror' episode. Have you seen any of them? On Netflix. A fair few dystopian futures are imagined.

I found out my writing was scraped by an AI to train AI without my permission (not that I would've given it).

This sort of thing really troubles me too. Partly because it's unethical/ illegal to use someone's hard earned talents. It's surely a breach of copyright. Imagine being this lady and, suddenly hearing your own voice on a train:



Plus, they can create false narratives- as you say. And, either blackmail someone or make it seem they endorse something they don't.

It's the broader picture too. I worry we'll see approproating other people's work as being acceptable when, it's theft. If big corporations can steal actors voices and get away with it, I worry people will just see it as a normal, acceptable thing to do.

 

[Galam]

I am happy that I have access to AI tools for free (perplexity.ai is free for now, don't even need to register for text only)
but many of them are just money-eating scam if it comes to song and picture creation. This capitalistic and classistic shit is not good. I am lower class and need to find ways to cheat so I can gain access (more credits) to activate the AI for my ideas.

But for unskilled, low IQ people like me I feel AI has the potential to help us as the only thing in life to make our creative ideas come true. I am 30 and since I am 11 I had some ideas for characters, worlds and a plot in mind. Different stories since I got older but never could put them into words or pictures or songs. And many people don't want to help me with my works because they see me as ugly, dumb and if they find out about my ideas they just spite at them. They aren't meant for the mainstream.

I am easly bored and don't understand Krita, Gimp, Blender or Digital Work Stations. I also often have a hard time to write prompts for AI. So I am happy that there are some tools I can entertain myself with and that they give me some advice

I don't believe that AI will make people more stupid. I assume many people who never had any access to create something from their imagination, could have access now to make something enjoyable.

With perplexity.ai I could now give my 8 characters names and motivations and descriptions about their apperance and relationships. It asked if it should write it for ai generators as a prompt or for a illustrator even, so they understand what they should draw. It is very helpful and charming often.
btw with Copilot from Microsoft I could make a sweet picture about a western jackdaw (Dohle), the whole experience was good but sadly th AI didn't understand left and right so I needed to mirror it. But I think the result is lovely and 95% what I had in mind. I could never draw this myself, especially the artstyle is unreachable for me.

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