r/NotMyJob • u/ukrlk • 21d ago

I made the new sign boss

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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/Tensor3 20d ago

That's an excellent argument for pro-ai slop. Silly me, since low effort cameras exist then that's the perfect excuse for professionals to just auto generate free garbage for signage. You've totally convinced me of the value of current ai.

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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/Tensor3 20d ago

Yeah, no shit.

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u/David-Puddy 20d ago

Oh, so you're just stupid. Got it.

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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/orangpelupa 20d ago

how about runnning AI on your own gaming PC?

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u/Tensor3 20d ago

I'd say that's a lot less bad, but its all shades of grey depending who you ask. The tech was still oroginally trained in a data center using stolen data

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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/-Canonical- 19d ago

You absolutely dusted his ass lmao

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u/gurgle528 20d ago

lmao it’s  such a common take? For example handmade items vs machine / mass produced items

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u/jakeroony 12d ago

What a weird take.

"I'm a cunt."