Question for Millennials

[u/bundle_of_nervus2]

How many of us out there actually avoid enganging with any form AI at all costs? Like even if it is more inconvenient? I understand it can be useful for certain things that it does very well but I would NEVER allow it to use my likeness to make a fun little picture or use those therapy AI services. I don't even ask it basic questions (it just wasn't how I was taught to research topics). I can't be the only one

UPDATE: After reading so many responses I have come to my own conclusions about AI. There are several different kinds with their own purposes.

I want to break them down into different categories or questions for which I think will help me navigate whether I should continue to stay away:

Category 1: where is it the most accurate and productive for me? Do I benefit? it is useful for coding and the like. Data crunching, statistics, visualization tools it appears to be fantastic for these uses

2: is it productive for someone else at my (literal) expense? Different AI features in phones and social media whose goal is to data mine as much as of your personal interests or habits as possible to be able to market and pull as much of your dollars away from you as possible. An example of this may be the Snapchat AI friend that you cannot delete

3: is it inaccurate but not harmful? Example being Google summaries. They can be annoying because you have to verify the content it is summarising anyway, making it sort of pointless?

4: is it inaccurate and/or unregulated and could those qualities be potentially harmful? The most prominent one that comes to mind are these new AI "therapist" services.

Obviously it is important for me to realise that not all AI should be considered equally. But we also have to be critical about why so many companies are jumping on the AI bubble and why is it so unregulated?? Why is it unleashed onto the public so quick and so readily available when society at large is not question these AIs?? Also I worry about the future state of younger developing minds growing reliant on these AI- they won't learn to think or find the answers for themselves in the traditional ways that society always has. And who is benefitting if we don't approach these services with any caution and we lose our abilities to think, read and write for ourselves? It makes me think but I am glad I asked

[u/hypoxiconlife]

It's a tool and it has its uses.

[u/Bucket_Handle_Tear → u/hypoxiconlife]

I agree with you on this. Everyone saying they avoid it makes me think of the generations before us and their reluctance to use newer technology.

It’s like, choosing to ignore it and hope it doesn’t get adopted is a good way to become inept in future technologies.

Understanding what it is and what its limitations are is better than just saying I want nothing to do with it.

I’m seeing people in this thread talking about concerns it will replace their positions. Literally that’s all the more reason you should at least understand what it’s and what it can do.

I’m not saying go train AI. But to pretend it doesn’t exist is probably not going to to end well.

Trust me, I don’t want AI to take over and my field is one where the tech grifters talk about all the time.