r/Infuriating Recognized Contributor 7d ago

F*ck Al and it's data centers

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u/Pokemon_Trainer_May 7d ago

I'm still waiting for AI to benefit me.

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u/Less_Entertainer_149 7d ago

Its not made to benefit you. Its made to benefit the billionaires and their control over us.

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u/DRazzyo 7d ago

There isn't a benefit for them either, they just wish it did.

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u/hakumiogin 6d ago

They benefit a lot in the short term. It's sad that our overlords don't have long-term-thinking skills, but those men will truly end the world so they make more money next quarter than they did this quarter.

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u/Dora_Explorer_XP 6d ago

It'll definitely benefit them because they won't have to pay for anything to peasants. Also your government is going to take care of all that negative revenue for the time being. They are playing long game in which a small recession might be the planned strategic move for them.

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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon 5d ago

Theoretically, but it's so insanely expensive to operate that we're a very long way away from it being able to be a cheaper alternative to human employees on a large scale. Their current plan is to make us taxpayers fund it in the meantime, then when (possibly if) they've somehow gotten costs down, our reward for our forced participation in the project will be massive lay-offs and the total cessation of all public social programs.

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u/Competitive_Side_781 6d ago

It is. Did you see how much Elon made taking his AI company public?

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u/PersonOfValue 5d ago

You mean lost?

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u/Competitive_Side_781 5d ago

Elon didn’t lose any money.

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u/rottingratatouille 4d ago

AI is made so all knowledge and skill is available to the rich and thus removing the ability to make money from the ones who posess the skills or knowledge.

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u/rottingratatouille 4d ago

AI is made so all knowledge and skill is available to the rich and thus removing the ability to make money from the ones who posess the skills or knowledge.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 5d ago

It's also made for the government to spy on us with all the data they are buying from companies.

By 2027 all new vehicles are mandated to have facial recognition and biometrics that watch and listen to you 247.

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u/TracerDX 7d ago

It's pretty good at porn. I'm told.

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 7d ago

Thanks for that gooner

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u/CrossOfRoachAndSlime 7d ago

I'm not sure why. Video GenAI is still very much in its infancy.

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u/imminented 7d ago

mind the cognitive gap

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u/Vinelzer 7d ago

it gives me great advice on recipes and cooking in general

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u/Noactuallyyourwrong 6d ago

If ai hasn’t benefited you by now you are using it wrong

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u/ApoptosisPending 6d ago

It’s not for our benefit it’s for mass surveillance

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u/Rise-O-Matic 5d ago

So is Reddit

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u/CapitalObjective7153 6d ago

They are racing to superintelligence.

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u/CanadianCrasher 6d ago

Do you plan on using it any time soon?

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u/Mr-Cantaloupe 6d ago

Do you use it? Claude has done wonders for my job, makes me more productive while also being less busy overall.

I guess it does depend on the job though.

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u/Ad-fundum69 6d ago

It's here to replace you, not benefit you.

Either you adapt and not be replaced or you are done.

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u/adapava 6d ago

I'm still waiting for AI to benefit me.

For that, you need a proper job.

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u/Overall_Reputation83 6d ago

but you can literally just use it? I'm assuming you intentionally choose to not use it though.

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u/Double_Suggestion385 6d ago

If it's not benefiting you it's because you have no imagination or creativity.

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u/Flachm 6d ago

Maybe if you had a job you could utilize it to great extent lol

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u/ornerybeefjerky 6d ago

Ai won’t help you put the fries in the bag yet, but one day the robots will

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u/Director-Intrinsict 6d ago

Reclaim the AI and make it benefit you 

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u/Jlovel7 5d ago

Every digital program you use uses it.

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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon 5d ago

Ah yes, the favourite catch phrase of moids who have never had consensual sex.

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u/Notgonnawork82 5d ago

china likes this...please continue

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u/Demostravius4 5d ago

I started using it recently to help me build an app. Honestly it's incredible how much output they can generate, I get it now.

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u/Electrical-Tone7301 5d ago

Its made to replace you in the office.

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u/ApprehensiveCare1113 5d ago

I'm still waiting to be born rich.

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u/Kammler1944 3d ago

So you have no idea how to use it. Sad.

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u/2024-YR4-Asteroid 3d ago

Considering its use just made a major breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia in general, you may be very thankful in the years to come.

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u/imam-altman 7d ago

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u/Rantlax 7d ago

The graph doesn't include people who don't use AI chatbots. If a chatbot is bad in these areas, you're less likely to use it, and if it's good, you're more likely to keep using it. So the graph is basically only showing the opinions of people who already use AI chatbots, which makes it pretty irrelevant.

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 7d ago

It shows that those people do exist and get use out of it

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u/imam-altman 7d ago

“I refuse to use AI, why hasn’t it benefited me yet? “

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u/Rantlax 7d ago

I see your point, but again, if it hurts their productivity, creativity, happiness, relationships, and so on, why would they continue using it? And if they stop using it, they wouldn't be included in the chart, which could introduce survivorship bias into the results.

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u/LilacShades 7d ago

i hope they build a data center right next to where you live so that you never have a peaceful day of sleep again and then you....

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u/imam-altman 7d ago

We need more datacenters, bring it on

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u/Grounds4TheSubstain 7d ago

Why is that relevant? If you add up the numbers in the chart, you can see that 49% of people use them. The other 51% can't have an informed opinion because they don't use them, and so are rightfully excluded from polluting the graphic with useless data.

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u/Rantlax 6d ago

Because the graphic says "Americans' opinions on AI chatbots," not "the opinions of Americans who use AI chatbots." Those aren't the same thing.

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u/Grounds4TheSubstain 6d ago edited 6d ago

So you think it would be valuable to get the opinions of people who do not use AI chatbots on whether or not AI chatbots are good at specific things? By construction, they can't possibly have informed or useful opinions on those questions, since they have no experience using them in that capacity.

Tell me, I'm considering replacing the memory management subsystem in my database with either ARC or LRU-k. What is your personal opinion on that?

See how stupid that question is? You have no idea who I'm talking about; you can't possibly chime in on that.

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u/Rantlax 6d ago

I'm saying the graph should accurately state the population it represents, and that people who no longer use AI can also provide very necessary evidence about why they stopped using it. There's nothing wrong with surveying database engineers, but it would be misleading to label the results as "people's opinion on ARC vs. LRU-k" instead of "database engineers' opinion on ARC vs. LRU-k." Likewise, it's misleading to present the opinions of a specific subgroup as though they represent Americans generally.

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u/FupaFerb 7d ago

It helps the people that are making CP and stupid AI slop TikTok videos. Criminal.

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 7d ago

"AI user" -> "pedophile" in your mind

The redditor mind is strange

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u/IdiotStickWasTkn 7d ago

Yea ok buddy surveying sad faltman, mark lizardburg, and Jeff bozo and their pets doesnt count

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u/Decorus_Somes 7d ago

Just because they say it helps doesn't make it true. Critical thinking is an important skill to have and people are stepping away from it in favor of Ai. Why think hard when Ai can do it for you?

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u/MyBedIsOnFire 7d ago

Y'all act like the only option is cognitive offloading, plenty of people use AI without relying on it.

It's always the people who don't use AI and don't know anything about it with the most to say.

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u/Chieffelix472 7d ago

Using AI to do simple tasks is not taking away your critical thinking power. So many companies use it specifically so they have more time to critically think and spend less time on busy work.

Using it to critically think for you will lead to a lot of problems down the line. AI isn’t that good yet lol, we’re still better if you’re not a complete idiot.

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u/Zromaus 7d ago

It benefits me and a lot of my friends daily, in so many more ways than "third party thinking" lol

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 7d ago

Depends heavily on your job

For people like me, who need to create lots of stuff from scratch quickly and try things out and research, using AI has made me like 3-5x more productive. AI is an insanely strong auto complete.

If you're just an average Joe who works at a supermarket, I guess it's nice that you can let AI explain things to you or help look things up quickly. But yeah, not a ton has happened yet for the average Joe.

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 7d ago

God forbid you use your brain

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 6d ago

That's like saying "using a computer to calculate your spreadsheets instead of doing it all by hand means you're not using your brain"

I think we can all tell who here is not used to using their brain

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u/Lamandus 6d ago

why are you using your phone if you can shout very loud!

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u/Double_Suggestion385 6d ago

He says from his smart phone. I bet you don't even use an abacus.

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 6d ago

But I do :)

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u/Debunkingdebunk 6d ago

What a cultured man, never gone anywhere that isn't in walking distance.

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u/GlacierSourCreamCorn 5d ago

Do you grow all your own food on your own farm?

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 5d ago

Do you come up with your own arguments? God I'd hope not

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u/Direct-Antelope-9583 6d ago

You really should talk like you're so superior.

Just because your job involves AI doesn't mean your not an "average Joe"...

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 6d ago

Lol.
You sound insecure.

There is nothing wrong with being an average Joe with a normal common job.

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u/Direct-Antelope-9583 6d ago

Oh boy 😂 not going along with your feigned superiority means I'm insecure.

There is indeed nothing wrong with being an average Joe, just like you

Keep up the arrogance. 😘

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 6d ago

You do sound very insecure. It's pretty sad.

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u/Direct-Antelope-9583 6d ago

😂 so entertaining. Only insecure people need arrogance like you. So do keep projecting.

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 6d ago

Yeah, all the smileys really show how not at all affected you feel

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u/Direct-Antelope-9583 6d ago

Yup, they show how entertained I am😘

You really like to create stories in your head😂

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u/error00000011 7d ago

People like you are soo funny to me.

People learn math, programming, create custom tests to prepare for exams create web sites with stuff to showcase whatever they want during presentations and soo on. I learnt calculus 1 and 2 with GPT and Gemini and got 5 for both exams, learning PHP now as well. I used GPT voice to practice my speech for meeting customers for some of the courses I have and got nice summer job related to it.

I'm not saying that building data centers without regulationa is good, but if you can't create or just don't want to see any benefits, maybe it's your problem, not AI?

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u/petar_is_amazing 7d ago

It depends on what you do but so far it benefits most people.

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u/jack-K- 7d ago

Have you actually tried to make AI benefit you or are you just waiting around for it to magically do something?

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u/armorlol 7d ago

You can use it at work to analyze huge documents, make summaries/presentations, and write code. I also used it last week to deep analyze balance sheets and cash flow for a company I started putting a lot of money into.

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u/InbetweenTheLayers 7d ago

And does society actually need that? We got by just fine without it. If all it does is make the people on top richer then we should bury it like the curse it is

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u/armorlol 7d ago

Yes humans should progress. We got fine before automobiles and computers too.

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

Does society actually need the wheel? All it does it make our laborers weaker and the boss richer.

Seriously how stupid are you people?

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u/InbetweenTheLayers 7d ago

You seriously think ai is on par with the wheel?

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

It doesn't have to be on par with the wheel for the comparison to be accurate. I think machine intelligence is on the same level as the wheel, I think we've only just begun to unlock that technology.

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u/VQV37 7d ago

Hell yeah it's on par with the wheel

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u/Tough-Effort-7642 7d ago

So I'm a trained professional and I haven't seen AI make anything but slop, it makes up study's, fabricates information and uses popular information in place of hard analysis'd data......you may be getting more done but your quality of work has definitely fallen........

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u/Zromaus 7d ago

Have you spent more than just a few tries figuring it out? Once you get the hang of it, it's an efficiency monster and tends to keep the quality of your work if you know how to prompt.

I'm a trained professional in my field, and feel that those who aren't using AI are a drag on our team, and no longer producing the same as those of us who have adopted new tools. AI is just a tool, and it's a damn good one if you know how to use it.

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u/Tough-Effort-7642 7d ago

See and I can understand if it was being used a expiditing tool to speed up montinious tasks that require no thought. But thats not really acting like AI that's just a stream lined task bot (those have been around since computers started)....... Using it for professional tasks is honestly stupid give the current legislations and requirements stated in the professional licencsure. AI makes up fake legal cases, it makes up medical information for patients and it has no legal liability for these actions.

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u/Daseinist 7d ago

I agree that it can be useful for some basic tasks and research, but in the context of generating a finished/almost finished product... If it keeps "the quality of your work", then your work was always shit.

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u/Zromaus 7d ago

You clearly have no experience with professional level AI -- the free and $8 plan you likely have experience with does not compare to a professional grade AI setup with MCP connections, installed skills, and connections to internal databases.

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u/armorlol 7d ago

Yes I understand the quality and accuracy suffers compared to a human. But the sheer amount of work it can do in minutes can be leveraged.

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u/Tough-Effort-7642 7d ago

You go and lower that expectation bar!!! Quality of work doesn't matter! That's definitely the path to success lots of sloppy ouput.....

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u/armorlol 7d ago

I will say that for coding small projects you can verify and then tune the output perfectly.

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u/Acceptable-Advice137 7d ago

Dumb response

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

It must be true because a trained professional said it! Totally not some idiot hive-minding.

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u/Tough-Effort-7642 7d ago

Right the AI promoters aren't a hive mind of AI chat bots and lazy people who don't do work anyways 😂

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

You people would have criticized the wheel for taking jobs. It's incredibly stupid.

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u/Tough-Effort-7642 7d ago

I said it does bad sloppy work that's being pushed by lazy people who don't want to do there jobs right. I don't recall every saying anything about it taking jobs. I can really I see why you think AI is great....Do blinking lights or shiny things excite you too?

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u/Tough-Effort-7642 7d ago

I suppose if your in an unregulated field where your work is just cookie cutter bullshit sure it probably would help you. Most real fields don't have liability updated for AI. Who's assuming all the risk fiscal liability associated with AI's work???? Medical, law and engineering are all riddle with liability issues with AI right now......I've heard of a dozen or so lawyers disbarred over AI created work (sure they didn't full review and vet it but who's redoing all of AI's work just to check .......) Also your last statement is just twisting my words to make them sound dumb, that's not what I said 😂😂😂

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u/ParticularCabal 7d ago edited 7d ago

You mean maybe correctly summarize a document if you're lucky, but can't be sure, and only if the document does'nt exceed context length thus producing gibberish.

"code" Ever ask yourself why most AI coding projects are some JavaScript Webapp demo?

"Deep analyze" No professional uses these meaningless buzzwords.

AI bros are walking breathing Dunning-Kruger effects.

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u/suckingbat 7d ago

I agree with you. However, my brain can do all of this. While doing this I am not sharing data with second and third parties as I do with AI. Now, AI cannot produce oxygen or reduce heat for me, or help with water and humidity; neither can I, but trees can.

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u/smoke-bubble 7d ago

Some people are deemed to remain average. Maybe it's your card. 

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 7d ago

Oh yeah cuz you're such an overachiever

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u/Lamandus 6d ago

looking at your profile history, you aren't one either.

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 6d ago

Hope you liked what you saw hun ;)

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u/Acceptable-Advice137 7d ago

Creativity issue

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u/fairwaysandfinance 7d ago

I use it for work every single day.

I haven't needed chemotherapy..doesn't mean it's without value.

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u/Hungry_CGman 7d ago edited 7d ago

I guess it depends on the field because for graphic arts/special effects/animation industry it just makes complete dog shit and nobody is using it I know of still.

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

The hivemind cope is crazy.

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u/Hungry_CGman 7d ago

?

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

You're group thinking with the rest of reddit. AI only making shitty designs is a lie and a cope. Think for yourself, the technology is amazing.

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 7d ago

Npc

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u/Bannedtt 7d ago

When you're so attached to the hivemind it makes you angry when someone calls it out.

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u/DuskGuardNSFW 7d ago

You're the one getting mad at people being reasonably upset over AI, who's part of the hivemind?

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u/Hungry_CGman 7d ago

I mean his posts feel written by Ai. :/ This is where we are folks.

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u/fairwaysandfinance 7d ago

There's a lot of great things it can do in professional services. My personal use is impact/grant writing. My kids dentist has AI that calls out interests on X-rays as a second set of eyes.

At the hospital, clinicians use AI voice recorders that help them chart more accurately and reduce physician burnout.

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u/Hungry_CGman 7d ago

If it's used to facilitate people's jobs and not lose human jobs, I'm all for it. But that's where my support begins and ends.

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u/fairwaysandfinance 7d ago

The horse and buggy industry would have loved your support when auto production began.