I use AI at work everyday. If it went away the only thing that would change is I’d just go back to googling stuff
And if googling went away I’d just go back to those giant books with the animals on them.
You’d need to lift the monitors off them first.
Has anyone ever opened one of those books? For all we know, they could just be a bunch of blank pages on the inside
I’ve opened some. It’s genius, it’s like a giant webpage with lots of information, but without all the ads, cookie banners, etc. Unfortunately the ones I have don’t seem to support any way to quickly search in the text. Though they’ve also thought about that, rather than implementing search these books tend to have a big overview at the start with all the separate chapters and sometimes a search index of commonly searched words at the end. Quite genius for what’s effectively just a neat monitor stand
Nah it’s actually just analog AI, someone opened one a few years ago and that’s where all this mess started
I have read these ancient tomes. The knowledge does exist.
The same, the animal revelations hold forbidden knowledge, but one can derive great power from them
CIA chatbot
Hey there buddy, wanna overthrow the prime minister of Malaysia with me?
Hilarious LMAO
As soon as you answer “but why male models?”
Mail Models
Okay… but why mail models?
Buttery males!
sames. That said, if AI went away, we have a few already-deployed systems that would go poof too. They increase throughput of the humans doing real work (we’re not building reverse centaurs here). Since we implemented them, we’ve not needed to hire more.
I’m required to use it for generating code. But that’s a small part of my job. Occasionally I’ll use it to research niche topics because it’s faster than a search but I’d be just fine without it.
I spent 10+ years coding without AI. It’s just a tool, and one that’s easily misused by people with low aptitude. I see it all the time and have to leave comments and block PRs until people fix the slop it outputs.
Anti-ai influencers using ai to complete their videos.
people wouldnt just lie on the internet
I’m 50. I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet. I’ll adjust. It might be a pain without GPS, Google Maps. Being without a cell phone would be a big one for me as well. It’s not like we have pay phones anymore. And I would have to go back to pagers/beepers. But i would manage either way.
I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet.
I mean, I considered the internet a godsend for a whole host of reasons and have been much better off with it than without it. Auto-Nav alone has saved me more hours utterly lost in my car than I care to think about.
But i would manage either way.
Wouldn’t really have a choice.
But then that’s the thing with AI. It’s not “the internet”. It’s this superfluous annoying add-on that keeps getting forced into platforms I was perfectly happy to use without it.
I’m constantly “choosing” not to use it and then finding the damned thing branded onto the ass-end of whatever new application or environment I approach.
I’m not using any “forced on me” AI products, other than as a search engine aid, and I have better tools for that now anyway.
I do, absolutely use AI. I use local, self hosted small focused AI that run on old hardware I was just using to self host media and games anyway.
Want do my AI do? Lots of boring organizing, text/voice recognition, and script/simple coding for hobby projects and such, all offline. For online stuff there are private large models vailable, but those cost money and I’m cheap.
If I lost it all? Well it would just take me longer to do the boring stuff and have less time for fun stuff edit
The loss of AI would barely be noticable for the average person. A bunch of developers would have a bad day trying to remove all that integration they were forced by management to add, but beyond that, people would move on.
Removing the Internet as a whole at this stage would be basically impossible without halting pretty much every economic force on the planet, I think. The Internet acts as the backbone of pretty much everything related to monetary transactions or logistics in general.
I’d say if we were to increase our resilience in an analogue world, we should start now while those who lived the analogue era are still alive and functional. Otherwise, we’ll see ourselves heavily dependent on power and data as long as modern civilisation exists.
This is wildly incorrect. If by AI you mean exclusively modern LLMs, then it would effectively halt quite a lot of modern research, including virology, epidemiology, physics, materials sciences, and many more.
If by AI you mean the actual definition of AI, then you can say goodbye to the Internet as we know it today. Translation services, fraud protection, GPS, 99.9% of all software development, etc. nobody had a problem with AI ~5 years ago. Those exact same algorithms are now flagged as evil because people misunderstand what they’re even complaining about.
The impossibility of removing the Internet is identical to the impossibility of removing AI. Or, if you use the incorrect term to mean LLMs exclusively, then say goodbye to quite a lot of critical modern research. I hope you don’t like antibiotics, because there was a recent breakthrough that used Evo 1 and Evo 2, both LLMs trained on genome data.
Yep, and after IOT stuff even some people homes would have plenty of problems
This is the 3rd of 4th time recently that I’ve heard someone, directly or indirectly, describe AI like meth. The first one was Hank Green when he said something along the lines of getting hooked on ‘being able to get things done faster,’ which is exactly how many people end up meth-heads.
That’s also how I felt when I was first prescribed stimulants
cocAIne
I would be very sad if it went away. It can perform tasks that are otherwise impossible without the expense of incredible amounts of the most valuable of all resources: time.
Thankfully I have it setup locally, so it’s not truly a potential outcome.
In Photoshop, do I lose access to content-aware fill or just generative fill? Which selection tools remain?
Content aware fill isn’t considered AI, and came out in 2010
If content-aware fill launched today, I bet they’d call it AI. Algorithms were variably called AI in 2010, depending on what we were talking about. But Adobe marketed content-aware fill as “magic” more than anything.
Me, a Meth Addict, constantly trying to blow meth smoke in your face and stab you with meth needles: “You’re going to have a pretty hard time getting by without it!”
Me, an ADHD sufferer, “Yeah, meth is terrible. But please don’t try to ban amphetamines universally.”
I’ve been wondering why is meth still allowed as a treatment for adhd? Do regular amphetamines not work for some people?
Right now I could probably get meth easier than adderall even with my prescription.
Probably. The system is broken. But let’s not blame a mindless, emotionless chemical for how it is being abused and misused. Throw rocks at the assholes causing harm, not the needle laying in the street.
I guess we just have to accept meth being forced into everything because the cat is out of the bag!
Meth is the future. If you don’t start now, you’ll get left behind.
It seems like most of my friends are on addy, so… yes?
Last time I sullied my fingers with a copilot prompt, it decided lobster was vegan so I immediately scrapped that idea and went back to real intelligence. I would be 100.00% delighted if “AI” disappeared.
God please make ai go poof maybe there’d be some tiny chance of me getting a job after college (probably not)
It won’t go away. Yeah, the datacenter based stuff might, but local models will surely stay.
Honestly? Find a job outside the computer world
All of these people that want to end billionaires, or reduce their accumulated wealth, I have one question: if billionaires disappeared tomorrow would you still get through an entire day of your life? Imagine if the rich were eaten? Would you really be willing to give them up?
Look man, im already starving, you dont need to make me hungrier comparing it like that
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Oh yeah, I like the way you talk.
Um did buddy not exist before AI? We got this far without it so…
He existed but he must never have actually bothered learning to do anything.
I think the most upsetting part of AI is discovering how many people were so ready for it, like they were just waiting for something to show up that they could offload their lack of creativity or responsibility onto.
I instantly lost friends because the first thing out of their mouth was ‘thank God I never have to pay anyone to commission art ever again and the little guy has access to good OC art.’
These people were not functioning before AI.
Yup. There’s a large population of humans that really just objectively suck.
No absolving the LLM-obsessed but I believe the average person is just so overwhelmed with society that they salivate for easy answers, just so that something is easy in their lives.
I imagine LLMs wouldn’t be as persuasive if humans had the leisure to satisfy their curiosity, indulge in artistic expression, and socialize with their loved ones. Instead we’re inculcated to this rat race and get surprised when people fall for any scraps they can get their hands on.
Some people are mindless by nature, but this set-up was nutured (intentionally or not) by those wanting to exploit the commoners.
I had this sort of sympathy until I saw how openly hostile people were in their open jealousy over talented people. I kept running into these people for years who were just so angry at the fact that they had to pay someone for their time and talent.
This gets to be a little offshooty for other things I tend to have less popular opinions on, but it’s the same people who feel that piracy should be the norm. No art, performance, or entertainment should be allowed to compel payment and it should all be free. This includes people who absolutely froth about advertisments on their Youtube videos. Granted 5 ads in a row is ridiculous but peraonally I want my artists and performers to be paid egregiously and I will suffer some small inconveniences to make sure they ateast get something from me.
But I think the venn diagram of people who are obsessed with AI and the people who just take offense to having to spend money on anything is a pretty tight one.
I’m staunchly anti-AI, pro-piracy, and pro-adblock. You should never pay for anything made by Disney, Warner Brothers, or Paramount. You should never watch an ad served by Google or Meta. And you should never use Elon Musk’s child porn nazi machine or Sam Altman’s child murderer machine.
There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. But you can make your consumption less unethical, by refusing to give time or money to billionaires.
That doesn’t change the fact that artists and creatives have no other outlet than to be beholden by their platform. Unless you’re going and buying hatsune miku fanart prints at your farmers market, unethucal consumption under captitalism also means trying to find out how to provide for the staff who still contribute to meaningful art, even if that is the set designer for an Avengers slop movie.
Yeah, obviously you should throw money at creators you like on bandcamp and patreon.
But Owen Dennis ain’t getting My money if I subscribe to paramount plus for Among Us, and he sure as shit ain’t getting any money if I watch an ad on cartoon network’s website while trying to figure out how to watch Infinity Train. I really love Infinity Train, but you can’t watch it legally anymore. And it’s not like Owen gets a big bonus if enough people subscribe to catch Among Us.
So anyway I just sent Owen Dennis some money on Patreon to show My appreciation for his amazing cartoons. And I’m still gonna block as many ads as I can!
Hey cool. You make all the calculations you want. As long as you’re supporting creators then that’s all that matters. I reiterate, there are people who take great personal offense to having to pay money for anything and you don’t appear to be one of them.
Dont tgreaten me with a good time sir.
I’m not getting through any of my days currently so maybe that’s the solution. I just need meth.
Yes, because I don’t rely on AI or even computers to do my work. The joys of printed manuals and life experience. Only computer I use at work is a shitty old iPad and order software which uses an incredibly dated interface that’s never seen AI let alone a competent UX designer.
AI is just more social enslavement fuckery
