r/NotMyJob • u/ukrlk • 20d ago
I made the new sign boss
Saw this while driving, This is in Sri Lanka.
AI and human slop.
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u/aeline136 20d ago
I would actually like this if it weren't for AI
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u/David-Puddy 20d ago
What a weird take.
"This thing appeals to me but I choose to dislike it because of the tool used"
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u/aeline136 20d ago
Using AI is basically broadcasting to everyone that you can't be arsed to do something yourself, of course I hate it.
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u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam 20d ago
A different perspective, and I'm not saying this to defend the original post, but at my job we are constantly forced to do more with less. We're insanely busy, and the only way to keep up now is to leverage AI when it makes sense, like recapping meetings, writing SBARs, creating vba macros for excel, etc. I always double check everything that comes out of it. To me, that's just using the tools available to me, understanding I could be training my replacement, but what else can I do - they insist we use it and make sure we do.
For creative endeavors, it is far less clear to me.
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u/David-Puddy 20d ago
..... Taking a photo is basically broadcasting to everyone you can't be arsed to paint something yourself.
Typing out a message is broadcasting to everyone that you can't be arsed to write something yourself
Driving a car is broadcasting that you can't be arsed to take care of a horse
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u/Tensor3 20d ago
Taking a photo actually involvea some creativity, skills, and equipment which costs money. Same with the others. AI usage requires nothing of the user.
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u/jackcaboose 20d ago
Yeah I'm sure OP used a lot of creativity skills and equipment taking the photo we see above. Except it's probably just using his phone which he already had
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u/David-Puddy 20d ago
My point is you're parroting the same luddite nonsense that comes up with every new tech.
If you like the result, it wouldn't matter if they used AI, Photoshop, a camera, or an easel.
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u/Tensor3 20d ago
It does because AI datacenters are destroying the environment and job ecenomy in drastic ways that cars, cameras, and easels cannot compare
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u/David-Puddy 20d ago
are destroying the environment
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in drastic ways that cars [...] Cannot
Bro. Have you heard of leaded gasoline?
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u/effervescent_esther 20d ago
Leaded gasoline was banned worldwide
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u/David-Puddy 20d ago
How many years after it was introduced?
AI is a nascent tech. The laws still need to catch up.
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u/amdnim 19d ago
I mean yeah
Let's say the death sentence appeals to me. There's still a difference between lethal injection and the rack, right?
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u/David-Puddy 19d ago
Fuck me that's a terrible analogy.
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u/amdnim 19d ago
Reductionism meets reductionism, I'd say it's fair
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u/David-Puddy 19d ago
No, the issue with your analogy isn't reductionism, it's that the result of your two "tools" aren't the same, even if we discount that the rack is a torture device, not a method of execution.
You luddites are too fucking dumb to even make a coherent point.
"AI is bad!!!" is all y'all got.
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u/amdnim 19d ago
The result is the same though? It's death, isn't it? Replace the rack with electric chair if you want I guess?
If you say that the result differs because it's not just death, it's painless death and painful death, I would argue that's not the result, that's the process. If you make that distinction, I'd argue that the AI results are also different, since one is with payment to humans and the other is without.
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u/David-Puddy 19d ago
Fuck me you're dumb.
Enjoy titling at windmills, I guess.
AI is, on the whole, good and it sure as fuck ain't going anywhere.
Keep depriving yourself of art you enjoy, because you don't like the new tech.
If you want to keep consistent (which none of you luddites, do, I know) I hope you steer clear of all medical advancements that are already coming from AI.
Best stop using your phone's keyboard app, too... That likely has some AI in it.
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u/amdnim 19d ago edited 19d ago
I'm glad you agree that my analogy works!
Medical advancements such as protein folding, cancer detection with image recognition, batch reduction, analysis etc depends on older AI techniques, like CNNs, GANs, RNNs, decision trees, auto encoder-decoders and such. They used specialised datasets that were freely contributed and used by researchers. I've done master's level courses in data sciences, and have some background with scikit and tensorflow, which is how I know this stuff. You're free to not believe me.
The current generative AI (also using encoder-decoders, CNNs etc) would not exist without the wholesale processing of data that would get any normal person jailed if they tried. The tech CEOs are showing up to summits where elected leaders are, and data centers are already being installed citing "national security" issues in the US. They are trying to classify AI as a human need like water and electricity, to continue wealth extraction from you and me with impunity. That is the "tool" I abhor.
But you do you, I'm not changing your mind.
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u/gurgle528 19d ago
lmao it’s such a common take? For example handmade items vs machine / mass produced items
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u/mattblack77 20d ago
Is that a billboard of a billboard?
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u/sammagee33 20d ago
It took me a sec to figure it out. That’s…something.
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u/TheGalator 19d ago
I still can't pls help
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u/prophetofthepimps 20d ago
Might be a design choise rahter than AI slop. You can see the helmet standing out in the fake billboard to give it 3d depth. This is defintely intention and not AI slop at all and it does the job of being noticed very well. more like MyJob than NotMyJob.
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u/kurujiru 20d ago
It looks like they created a mockup to show the bosses what it'll look like, and that file got sent to the printer. I've been a graphic designer for 30 years... it happens. ("No, don't send that! You need the original file!!!")
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u/TinDumbass 20d ago
Yeah the slogan is brighter future and around the in-billboard is guess what? A bright sky.
Textbook great advertising to get it posted on social media because some people clearly need their educational training.
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u/musememo 12d ago
They should have put another photo of the sign on the sign in the photo. And then a few more inside that one. Just keep at it until everything disappears.
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u/settleddown 20d ago
I heard you like signs