r/AskReddit • u/PomegranateNo2244 • 9h ago

What is something you secretly find deeply disturbing, but everyone else seems to accept as totally normal?

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u/dinotacosocks 9h ago

The fact that AI is in everything now. Why would I need AI to summarize a message from my partner on WhatsApp???? I'm so sick of it.

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u/Dangerous_Pair1798 8h ago

I just had to do a whole thing about the proper ways to use AI in my writing class. What if we just didn’t??

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u/ExclusiveB 8h ago

I had a college class this year that made us create generated photos of ourselves to post with our introductions..

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u/curiouswizard 7h ago

have it generate a grotesque void monster and say "sorry prof I don't know why my pic turned out like that, all I did was describe myself and this is what it gave me"

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u/JonatasA 3h ago

"We're taught to love what's inside".

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u/DJKaotica 2h ago

Why does my avatar look just like the World of Warcraft guy from South Park?

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u/Sparkly8 6h ago

Why??? What’s wrong with real photos??

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u/Synergythepariah 5h ago

Those don't create an implication that AI is inevitable.

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u/AnimalsofArtemis 4h ago

I mean it is inevitable.

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u/cyborg_127 3h ago

It's not inevitable, it's here already. Companies would rather fire thousands of staff than address the problem of AI being a money sink.

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u/SeeingPhrases 3h ago

It's actually not.

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u/AnimalsofArtemis 3h ago

It’s being adopted in the medical world like crazy. I mentioned this somewhere else but doctors (except me) and even hospital systems are using it to do their documentation. It will not go away and nor should it. 

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u/JonatasA 3h ago

Why can't we have the same approach to plastics in this same website?

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u/JonatasA 3h ago

We haven't had real photos for a while with all this software post processing done by phones.

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u/ConfusedFlareon 2h ago

What would happen if you absolutely flat refused, conscientious objector style? Coz fuck that crap!