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.